Replace the fixed post-first-rekey and post-second-rekey settle sleeps in
the rekey integration test, and the fixed-deadline baseline wait in the
interop test, with the deterministic wait_until_connected progress-aware
polling helper already used for the initial baseline convergence.
Each converted site fails fast with structured diagnostics when the mesh
is stuck and extends its deadline only while pairwise reachability is
still climbing, removing the wall-clock settle windows that produced
intermittent connectivity failures after a rekey.
The shared fips.yaml ships ethernet.wan.interface: "eth0", the default
WAN port on OpenWrt 24 and earlier. OpenWrt 25 (DSA) boards, which the
.apk package targets, name the WAN port "wan" instead. Rewrite the
staged copy at build time so the as-installed config binds the Ethernet
transport to the right port out of the box, without maintaining a second
copy of the config file. The .ipk package keeps "eth0".
Update the openwrt README to document eth0 (24) vs wan (25/DSA) and add
a CHANGELOG entry.
A transient timeout uploading the built .ipk to the Blossom CDN
(blossom.primal.net) failed the entire OpenWrt Package run, and because
the GitHub release job depends on the build jobs, a CDN blip would block
every OpenWrt artifact from the release. Blossom/nostr distribution is
supplementary; the package already ships as a GitHub release artifact.
Wrap the upload in a 3-attempt retry with backoff to absorb transient
timeouts, mark the step continue-on-error so a persistent outage no
longer fails the build, and guard the NIP-94 publish on the upload
succeeding so no event is created with an empty URL. Applied to both the
.ipk and .apk build jobs.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01A2pYfSypNmmG4HyHwZuLex
Prepare the source tree for the v0.4.0 release cut, leaving the version
at 0.4.0-dev (the version bump rides a separate release-candidate
commit).
- CHANGELOG: backfill the missing entry for the route-class transit
counters and fipstop routing-tab reorg, then reorganize the Unreleased
block from a flat per-commit list into topic-grouped subsections
mirroring the 0.3.0 entry (coalescing interim fixes into net-effect
descriptions without dropping technical detail), and stamp it as
[0.4.0] - 2026-06-21 with a fresh empty Unreleased block. The date is
provisional and reconfirmed at the final tag.
- Release notes: refresh both RELEASE-NOTES.md and the versioned archive
(kept byte-identical) to cover the OpenWrt .apk packaging, the Nix
flake, the macOS self-traffic checksum fix (#117), and the route-class
transit counters.
- README: bump the status badge to v0.4.0 so it matches the prose.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01A2pYfSypNmmG4HyHwZuLex
Add six forwarding counters that partition transit-forwarded packets by their
tree relationship to the chosen next hop: tree-up (peer is our ancestor),
tree-down (peer is our descendant and the destination is within its subtree),
tree-down-cross (peer is our descendant but the destination is outside its
subtree), cross-link descend (lateral peer, destination within its subtree),
cross-link ascend (lateral peer, destination outside its subtree), and
direct-peer. The six classes sum to forwarded_packets, asserted by a unit
test. Classification is computed from tree coordinates at the transit
chokepoint, so the error-signal routing callers are excluded.
The two "outside the chosen peer's subtree" classes are both up-and-over
forwards but differ in what they depend on. Tree-down-cross is the
dive-to-tree-child cut-through: we forward down to our own child for a
destination not beneath it, which is only possible because the child
advertised cross-link reach upward to us, beyond its own subtree. Its count
measures how much forwarding depends on that upward advertisement, i.e. what
would change if cross-link advertisements were narrowed to subtree-entry only.
Cross-link ascend, by contrast, uses the node's own lateral cross-link learned
from a peer's split-horizon advertisement, so it does not depend on any upward
advertisement.
Surface the counters through the forwarding stats snapshot (control socket,
show_routing and show_status) and reorganize the fipstop routing tab so its
two columns separate own/endpoint traffic (received, delivered, originated)
from forwarded/transit traffic (the route-class breakdown and drop reasons),
with the tree-down-cross line visually flagged.
Add OpenWrt .apk packaging for OpenWrt 25+, where apk-tools is the
mandatory package manager. The existing .ipk continues to cover OpenWrt
24.x and earlier. Built SDK-free like the .ipk: it reuses the
cargo-zigbuild cross-compile and the shared installed-filesystem payload
under openwrt-ipk/files, and assembles the ADB container with the
official `apk mkpkg` applet from apk-tools 3.0.5 built from source, so no
OpenWrt SDK image is needed.
The package-openwrt workflow is refactored so a single compile-binaries
job cross-compiles and strips each arch once; both the .ipk and .apk
packagers consume the binaries via a new --bin-dir flag instead of each
recompiling. A build-apk job (aarch64, x86_64) builds apk-tools,
packages, and structurally verifies the .apk with `apk adbdump`. Releases
now publish .apk artifacts and checksums alongside .ipk; the release
download is scoped to fips_* so the shared raw-binary artifacts are not
swept into the published release. apk-version.sh maps a release tag or
commit height to an apk-tools-valid version, covered by a case-table test.
Packages are unsigned, installed with `apk add --allow-untrusted`,
matching the .ipk posture.
Also fix the OpenWrt control socket: the init script now pre-creates
/run/fips before starting the daemon, the procd equivalent of the systemd
unit's RuntimeDirectory=fips. Without it, on a fresh boot the daemon
resolves its control socket to /tmp (since /run/fips does not yet exist),
while fips-gateway later creates /run/fips for its own gateway.sock,
leaving fipsctl/fipstop resolving a /run/fips/control.sock the daemon
never bound.
Self-addressed TCP/UDP connections to a node's own <npub>.fips address
half-opened and hung on macOS. macOS routes self-traffic as loopback (a
LOCAL route via lo0), which defers the transport TX checksum, but the
point-to-point utun then egresses the packet into the daemon with only
the pseudo-header partial checksum present. The hairpin path added in
9a9e90a re-injected these verbatim, so the local stack dropped every
segment whose checksum MSS clamping didn't happen to rewrite: the
SYN/SYN-ACK got through (clamping recomputes them) but the bare ACK,
data, and FIN were dropped for a bad checksum, leaving the listener
stuck in SYN_RCVD.
Recompute the TCP/UDP checksum for self-addressed packets on the hairpin
path before re-injection, completing the self-delivery 9a9e90a started
(which only covered ICMP and the TCP handshake). Linux is unaffected: it
loops self-traffic via lo before the TUN, so the hairpin branch never
fires and checksums are already valid.
Confirmed on macOS: a self-connect that previously timed out now
completes in ~9ms with payload delivered.
The linux/macos/windows package workflows each publish a
checksums-<platform>.txt sha256 file with their release artifacts, but
the OpenWrt workflow attached only the .ipk files with no checksum
coverage. Generate checksums-openwrt.txt over the .ipk outputs using the
same sha256sum idiom as the other platforms and add it to the release
file set.
Add a flake that builds all four binaries (fips, fipsctl, fips-gateway,
fipstop) on Linux and macOS, pinning the exact toolchain from
rust-toolchain.toml (1.94.1 + rustfmt/clippy) via fenix so Nix builds
match CI and the AUR/Debian packaging.
Wire up the build-time native deps the source tree needs: pkg-config and
bindgenHook (libclang) for the rustables/libdbus-sys bindgen step, and
dbus for bluer's BLE support. autoPatchelfHook rewrites the binary RPATHs
so the daemon resolves libdbus-1.so.3 and libgcc_s.so.1 from the Nix store
at runtime — without it `fips` fails to load on NixOS, which has no global
/usr/lib.
Outputs: packages.{default,fips}, apps for each binary, checks.fips, and a
devShell with the pinned toolchain plus cargo-edit. Tests are skipped in
the package build since they exercise TUN devices, raw sockets, and mDNS
that aren't available in the sandbox, mirroring the AUR/Debian packaging.
Verified end-to-end in a pure Nix store (nixos/nix container): nix build,
nix flake check, and running all four binaries succeed against the
committed flake.lock.
Documented across the install and developer docs: a Nix / NixOS section in
packaging/README.md, the from-source guide in docs/getting-started.md
(noting the flake produces binaries only, with NixOS system integration
through the system configuration rather than the installer), the CHANGELOG,
README, CONTRIBUTING, and the v0.4.0 release notes.
Co-authored-by: Johnathan Corgan <johnathan@corganlabs.com>
A packet destined for our own mesh address reached the TUN reader on
macOS (utun egresses self-traffic into the daemon despite the lo0 host
route) and was pushed onto the mesh outbound path, where it was dropped
for lack of a session/route to self. Hairpin self-addressed packets back
to the TUN writer instead, so ping6 and connections to our own
<npub>.fips address are delivered locally.
On Linux the kernel already loops self-traffic via `lo` before it reaches
the TUN, so the branch never fires there; the check is kept unconditional
as a daemon-level delivery invariant and to keep it covered by Linux CI.
The fips build runs bindgen (via the rustables crate that powers the LAN
gateway's nftables bindings), which needs libclang.so at build time.
makepkg -s installs only declared makedepends, so without clang the AUR
build panics with "Unable to find libclang". Add clang to the makedepends
of both PKGBUILD and PKGBUILD-git so makepkg installs it and AUR users
get the dependency. Surfaced by the always-on aur-build CI job.
Bring the source tree to its finished v0.4.0 content state ahead of the
release candidate. Documentation, changelog, release notes, and
packaging metadata only; no code or version-string changes.
CHANGELOG.md: backfill the operator-visible changes that landed since
v0.3.0 (the show_metrics scraper query and fipsctl stats metrics, the
discovery dedup-cache-full counter, the off-rx_loop control read
surface and its new daemon-resolved fields, the fipstop TUI overhaul,
the TCP inbound cap now honoring max_connections, host-map hot-reload,
log-noise demotions, and the net bug fixes), topic-grouped rather than
replayed per commit; intra-cycle fixes folded into their feature
entries; the duplicate Unreleased Fixed section merged into one.
Release notes: author docs/releases/release-notes-v0.4.0.md to the
operator-upgrade bar and mirror it byte-for-byte into the root
RELEASE-NOTES.md. Attribute each feature to its author in Contributors
(Nym transport and the mixnet demo to @oleksky, opt-in mDNS LAN
discovery to @mmalmi).
README.md: add the Nym transport to the support matrix (Linux, macOS,
Windows; OpenWrt pending verification), the multi-transport bullet, and
the "What works today" list; fold mDNS LAN discovery into the existing
Nostr-discovery bullets; refresh the status narrative to v0.4.0 over a
global, public test mesh.
packaging/common/fips.yaml: add commented Nym transport and mDNS LAN
discovery example stanzas with verified field names and defaults.
Cargo.toml: add homepage, keywords, and categories crate metadata.
docs/reference: update the cli-fips version example to the released
form; document the new control-socket output fields and the typed
RejectReason families in control-socket.md; sync cli-fipstop.md with the
overhauled TUI keybindings.
poll_lan_discovery's comment said Noise XX, but LAN-discovered peers dial over
UDP through initiate_connection, which uses Noise IK (IK at FMP). compute_mesh_size's
header comment still described the obsolete sum-of-disjoint-subtrees estimate;
the function OR-unions every connected peer's inbound filter plus self and
estimates cardinality once (matching the body comment). Comment-only, no
behavior change.
Pre-cut documentation pass for the 0.4.0 release, verified against current source.
Corrections:
- fipsctl: stale 'show identities'/'show node' -> 'show status'
(host-a-service, run-as-unprivileged-user)
- mesh address derivation: first 16 bytes of SHA-256(pubkey) with the leading
byte set to 0xfd, not a fixed fd97: prefix (reach-mesh-services,
ipv6-adapter-walkthrough)
- gateway control socket mode 0660 -> 0770 (troubleshoot-gateway)
- Tor example: add advertised_port: 8443 so the published port matches the
prose (enable-nostr-discovery)
- bloom mesh-size estimate rewritten to the OR-union-of-peer-filters algorithm;
plus mtu deep-link, gateway pool wording, and a NAT failure-mode line
- examples: delete orphaned nostr-rs-relay config, accept inbound to the local
8443 TCP listener, fix fd::/8 -> fd00::/8 typos, dotless wireguard alias
Additions:
- new Nym mixnet transport section (fips-transport-layer) and the architecture
transport list
- new LAN/mDNS discovery section (fips-nostr-discovery)
- reference docs: Nym transport, LAN discovery, and new control/stats surfaces;
drop ble from the connect transport list
Run the AUR package through makepkg + namcap on the same triggers as the
other package workflows (pushes to master/maint/next, pull requests,
tags, and manual dispatch), so a broken PKGBUILD is caught continuously
rather than only at release time. The build runs in an Arch container
(makepkg/namcap are not on ubuntu-latest) and packages the checked-out
tree from a local git-archive tarball, so it works for branch/PR builds
and unreleased rc tags that have no published GitHub source archive yet.
makepkg runs with --nocheck since the test suite is already covered by
ci.yml; this job validates packaging.
Publishing to the AUR is unchanged in intent but now gated to a real
(non-prerelease) release tag push, plus the existing manual-dispatch
republish path for packaging-only pkgrel bumps; it depends on the build
job so a package that fails to build or lint is never published. Branch
pushes and pull requests build and lint but never publish.
The PKGBUILD-patching logic is factored into a shared
packaging/aur/patch-pkgbuild.sh used by both jobs; the build path
sanitizes the version for makepkg (which forbids '-' in pkgver).
The GitHub deb-install matrix ran debian12/ubuntu24/ubuntu26, but the
local harness (testing/deb-install/test.sh) runs five distros. Add the
missing debian13 (trixie) and ubuntu22 legs so the cloud gate covers the
same distro set as local CI. Each new leg invokes the existing test.sh
scenario, so per-distro behavior is identical to the local run.
Update the granularity-only parity notes in ci.yml, ci-local.sh, and
check-ci-parity.sh to list the full distro set.
Pull the available point releases that sit within the current version
constraints: tun 0.8.11, tokio-socks 0.5.3, socket2 0.6.4, nostr 0.44.3,
nostr-relay-pool 0.44.1, ratatui 0.30.1, serde_json 1.0.150, simple-dns
0.11.3, mdns-sd 0.19.2, plus the transitive maintenance crowd. Lockfile
only; no Cargo.toml constraint changes.
Defer the out-of-semver crypto and identity majors (secp256k1 0.31, sha2
0.11 with hkdf 0.13, bech32 0.12) and the mdns-sd 0.20 bump to a separate
coordinated refresh with its own handshake, identity, and LAN validation.
The connect_refused stat counter (the Refused line in fipstop) was
defined but never incremented: every SOCKS5 connect failure recorded
socks5_errors instead, so the counter sat at zero and the operator-facing
gauge was permanently misleading. Both the synchronous connect path and
the background connect_async task now count a genuine SOCKS5 REP=0x05
refusal as connect_refused and every other failure as a socks5_error,
distinguishing them precisely via tokio_socks::Error::ConnectionRefused.
Extends the mock SOCKS5 server with a configurable reply code and adds
two tests covering the refused and general-failure paths.
Add an outbound-only Nym mixnet transport that tunnels FMP peer links
through a local nym-socks5-client SOCKS5 proxy into the Nym mixnet. It
structurally mirrors the Tor SOCKS5 transport (connection pool,
connect-on-send background promotion, FMP-v0 framing reused from TCP)
with the onion, inbound-listener, and control-port machinery removed.
Wires the transport through the full TransportHandle dispatch, NymConfig
(standard transport-instance pattern), and node instantiation, and
surfaces its counters in fipstop. Includes a mock SOCKS5 harness and unit
coverage for the address-parsing paths.
Also adds an isolated single-container example
(examples/sidecar-nostr-mixnet-relay/) demonstrating FIPS peering across
the mixnet end to end. No new crate dependencies: tokio_socks, socket2,
and futures are already pulled in by the Tor transport.
Two independent rendering glitches, both most visible over SSH and inside
tmux:
Startup: ratatui::try_init() enters the alternate screen but never clears
it, and the first terminal.draw() only emits cells that differ from an
assumed-blank internal buffer. On terminals that don't hand back a cleared
alternate buffer (notably tmux, and amplified by SSH latency) the prior
contents show through. Force a full repaint with terminal.clear() before
the first draw.
Quit: the input EventHandler spawned a detached thread that polled stdin in
a loop outliving the main loop, so at quit it kept reading after raw mode
was disabled and stray bytes (a keystroke or a terminal query response)
echoed onto the restored screen. Give the thread a stop flag and join it
before restoring the terminal; poll on a short fixed interval (decoupled
from the refresh tick) so quit stays responsive.
git log --oneline -1
When an FMP msg1 or FSP msg3 rekey retransmission budget is exhausted, the
cycle is abandoned and retried on the next timer. On lossy or high-latency
links this is an expected, self-limiting outcome: the existing session stays
valid and keeps carrying traffic, so the abort is not a failure that warrants
operator-level visibility. Demote both abandon-cycle messages from warn to
debug to cut steady-state log noise on nodes with many flapping peers.
A manual disconnect tore down only the local side and sent the peer nothing, so
the peer kept its session and never re-emitted its tree and filter
announcements; on reconnect it was never re-adopted as a child and its bloom
filter was never recorded. Send the disconnected peer a scoped Disconnect, the
same message graceful shutdown sends to all peers, so both sides tear down and
re-handshake cleanly on the next connection.
Reworks the fipstop TUI across its rendering, the control read surface it
draws from, and its interaction model, on a machine-verified base.
Test infrastructure:
- Add a ratatui TestBackend snapshot harness (testkit + snapshots
modules) that renders any ui::draw_* into an in-memory Buffer from
canned show_* JSON and asserts the text grid plus per-cell style.
Layout, columns, alignment, labels, grouping, and colour are now
checkable under cargo test; every render below ships a snapshot.
Control read surface (each new field emitted byte-identically on the
live and off-loop builders, published once from the tick, with schema
fixtures regenerated and the parity asserts holding):
- show_status: effective persistence (persistent || nsec.is_some());
root and is_root; and a per-configured-transport-type peer-count map
in which idle-but-configured types stay visible at zero.
- show_peers: per-peer effective_depth (depth + link_cost, the value
evaluate_parent ranks on), null when unmeasured or coordless so
fipstop never recomputes it.
- show_tree: root_npub, resolved once daemon-side (self when root, an
attested peer npub, or an identity-cache hit).
- show_bloom: the last-actually-sent uptree filter fill ratio and
subtree estimate, null for a root or before the first announce.
- show_mmp: session-layer srtt, loss, and etx trend labels.
Rendering:
- Display a 6-byte non-UTF-8 TransportAddr as a colon-separated MAC at
the type layer, so daemon logs, fipsctl, and JSON consumers all
benefit; non-6-byte payloads stay bare hex.
- Right-justify the Bloom Peer Filters numerics into aligned fixed-width
columns, render the Routing panes through a kv_lines helper that shares
one value column across a key-value group, and right-justify the Graphs
by-peer summary columns.
- Truncate an over-long peer name (the npub shown when no friendly name
exists) in the Tree, Bloom, and MMP peer lists so it no longer runs
into the next column.
- Group the Peers table by role (parent, then STP children, then other)
and render it as a full grouped view with styled group labels and
blank separators; the selection stays a peer index and the cursor only
ever lands on a peer row. Apply the same role grouping to the Tree and
Bloom peer lists, joining each peer's role from the peers view by node
address.
- Show min in the Graphs plot titles, rest a steady non-zero metric on
the baseline as a row of dots, render a genuine zero as an empty plot,
and keep a distinct no-data placeholder.
- Replace the metric-by-peer grid, which squeezed plots to nothing once
peers overflowed, with a master/detail Graphs view: a scrollable
per-peer summary list that expands (Enter) to a full-pane btop plot,
with up/down to flip peer, n/N to switch statistic, m to cycle mode,
and Esc to return.
- Put inline colored trend arrows on the Link and Session MMP values
(drawn only on a rising or falling trend, with a fixed blank slot when
stable so the value columns stay aligned), via a shared helper.
- Cycle column sorting on the Link MMP, Session MMP, and Graphs by-peer
tables (one key cycles the active column, another toggles direction),
with the active column marked in each table's header.
- Render the new daemon-surfaced fields: the dashboard root line (a
self-is-root marker, otherwise a truncated root hex), a
transports-by-type line, and an "approx. mesh estimate" line; an
effective_depth column and lines on the Peers, peer-detail, and Tree
sites from the single daemon derivation, showing a dash placeholder
when unmeasured rather than a misleading zero; the full Tree root hex
plus an Npub line; and the Bloom uptree fill and subtree-estimate lines.
Interaction model:
- Add a declarative keybinding registry keyed by (Tab, UiMode) that both
the context footer and the ? help overlay render from, so the two
cannot drift; a test asserts every registry key has a dispatch handler.
- Add a modal ? help overlay, and a context-aware footer that shows the
current state's actions first, drops global hints when the terminal is
narrow, and always keeps a Help affordance as the overflow path.
- Generalize per-pane focus and scroll state on App, wired across the
Tree, Filters, Routing, and MMP tabs (f cycles pane focus and the
focused pane scrolls instead of clipping its overflow); on the MMP tab
the column sort acts on the focused pane. Esc deselects the active row
when no detail is open (detail-close still takes priority).
- Add a Del-disconnect confirmation modal naming the peer, the only
state-mutating action, issuing the control-socket disconnect on confirm
and noting that the peer stays disconnected until manually reconnected.
Complete the control-plane read-isolation work: every pure-read show_*
query now renders in the control accept task from published read
snapshots, so none round-trips the data-plane receive loop. Only the
mutating connect/disconnect commands still reach that loop.
Three subsystem snapshots are published via ArcSwap and served through the
read handle's snapshot_dispatch:
- A routing read view (spanning tree, bloom filters, coordinate cache,
identity cache, and the discovery F-queue summary scalars), published
from the tick, serving show_tree/show_bloom/show_cache/show_routing/
show_identity_cache.
- A per-entity read view (peers, sessions, links, connections, transports,
and the MMP link/session views) as Vec<Arc<Row>> tables reconciled
against the prior snapshot so a republish reuses unchanged rows by
pointer and re-allocates only changed or new rows, keeping the per-tick
publish cost bounded as the peer/session count grows. Serves
show_peers/show_sessions/show_links/show_connections/show_transports/
show_mmp.
- The stats snapshot is extended with the peer-ACL status and a per-peer
metadata map (is_active, npub, display name), resolved at publish time,
serving show_acl and the two per-peer stats queries.
Display names and other cross-subsystem fields are resolved at publish
time; time-relative fields are derived at render time from captured
absolute timestamps, so rendered output is byte-identical to the prior
on-loop handlers, which are retained as the equality oracle.
With every read query served off-loop, the show_* branch is removed from
the rx_loop control handler and the now-dead on-loop dispatcher deleted.
The snapshot projections are forward-compatible with the later structural
extraction of the derived-state and session tables: they become thin
views over the extracted types without changing the read-handle interface.
Introduce a read-snapshot plane so pure-snapshot control queries render in
the control-socket task instead of round-tripping the rx_loop, removing the
head-of-line coupling that let a busy or slow rx_loop time out fipsctl and
fipstop observability.
- ControlReadHandle: a cloneable bundle the control accept loop holds, over
the node's already-shared NodeContext and MetricsRegistry plus an
ArcSwap-published StatsSnapshot. A snapshot_dispatch seam serves cut-over
commands off-loop and falls through to the rx_loop for the rest, keeping
the rx_loop's ownership of Node intact.
- StatsSnapshot is published from the tick (the natural and sole mutator of
stats_history), carrying the history rings plus the scalar gauges and
counts show_status reports. Readers serve the latest snapshot
unconditionally, with staleness bounded by the tick interval and no
IO_TIMEOUT-coupled fallback.
- Off-loop now: show_status, show_stats_history, show_stats_all_history,
show_listening_sockets, show_stats_list, and a new counter-only
show_metrics (exposed as fipsctl "stats metrics", the enabler for a
Prometheus scraper at no hot-path cost). Queries that need live per-entity
state (peers, links, sessions, routing, and the per-peer stats variants)
stay on the rx_loop path pending later phases.
Quartet green; forward-merge to next verified clean.
The pool's TTL clock (VirtualIpMapping.last_referenced) advanced only on
DNS re-query, never on traffic, and the mapping-TTL is wired equal to the
DNS TTL, so an in-use mapping was forced to drain at TTL and reclaimed at
the first zero-conntrack tick (a stale drain_start gave no grace effective
protection), breaking long-lived, bursty, or DNS-cached clients.
In tick(), refresh last_referenced whenever conntrack reports sessions > 0
so an actively used mapping never ages out, and recover a Draining mapping
to Active (clearing drain_start) when traffic resumes, so a later drain
gets a fresh grace window instead of a stale one. The Active arm now only
drains an idle mapping. The DNS-TTL / idle-reclaim-TTL wiring is unchanged.
Adds regression tests for continuous-traffic-survives-past-TTL, bursty
drain-then-recover, and fresh-grace-on-redrain.
The per-transport TCP inbound cap was hardwired to 256 and never read
node.limits.max_connections, so raising max_connections was a silent
no-op for inbound TCP. Resolve the effective cap with precedence:
explicit per-transport max_inbound_connections, then node-wide
max_connections, then the built-in default of 256. Established peers
remain bounded node-wide by add_connection, so deriving the per-transport
raw-accept ceiling from max_connections does not admit more real peers
across multiple transports.
Add effective_max_inbound on the TCP transport with a node_max_connections
setter wired from create_transports, plus a precedence unit test.
Estimate the OR-union cardinality over self plus every connected peer's
inbound filter, dropping the parent/child tree gating in
compute_mesh_size. Filter propagation is split-horizon, so cross-links
advertise near-complete mesh views; unioning all peers yields the same
set as the tree-only union in steady state (OR dedups overlap and no
filter can over-count) while damping the node-count flap on parent
switches, since dropping the parent no longer collapses the upward leg.
This also removes the estimate's dependence on tree-declaration cache
freshness.
Rename the debug-log child_count to contributor_count, adapt the two
membership-invariant tests to all-peers semantics, and add a test that
the estimate stays stable across a parent drop when a healthy cross-link
is present.
The inbound FilterAnnounce FPR cap rejects filters whose false-positive
rate (fill^k) exceeds the configured maximum. On the fixed 1 KB / k=5
filter, 0.05 corresponds to fill 0.549 (~1,300 reachable entries), and
the busiest nodes' aggregates were beginning to hit that ceiling as the
mesh grew. Raise the default to 0.10 (fill 0.631, ~1,630 entries) to
restore headroom toward the fixed-filter capacity limit. A saturated or
poisoned filter is ~100% FPR and remains rejected, so the antipoison
gate is not materially weakened.
Updates the config default, the config-reference and bloom-filter
design docs, and the changelog.
The sidecar chain test intends node-a to be a standalone root ("node-a: no
outbound peers"), but started node-a without clearing FIPS_PEER_*, so it
inherited the external peer default from testing/sidecar/.env (a real public
mesh node, test-us01.fips.network) and auto-connected to the live mesh. The
whole a-b-c chain then attached under an external root, inflating tree depth and
breaking test isolation; this also produced spurious multi-hop failures.
Set FIPS_PEER_NPUB/FIPS_PEER_ADDR empty for node-a, matching how node-b and
node-c already get explicit inline peers, so the suite is hermetic regardless of
the .env default. Validated against the unmodified .env: node-a comes up with a
single link to node-b, no external attachment, multi-hop passes 18/18.
Before bf77ece (Fix DNS responder silent-drop on systemd-resolved
deployments, 2026-04-29) the daemon defaulted dns.bind_addr to "::"
(wildcard, accepted v4 traffic too), so the macOS pkg's resolver shim
of `nameserver 127.0.0.1` reached the daemon fine over v4 loopback.
That commit tightened the default to "::1" — IPv6 loopback only,
which on Linux/macOS does not accept v4-mapped traffic — to defuse a
mesh-interface filter / IPV6_PKTINFO bug that was silently dropping
.fips queries on systemd-resolved hosts. The Linux side was updated
in the same commit: fips-dns-setup now writes [::1]:5354 in every
backend, and the gateway's DEFAULT_DNS_UPSTREAM moved to [::1]:5354
with an inline comment about the v4/v6 mismatch.
The macOS resolver shim in packaging/macos/build-pkg.sh was missed in
that sweep. Since 2026-04-29, every macOS install has shipped
/etc/resolver/fips with `nameserver 127.0.0.1` while the daemon
listened on `::1`, so .fips hostnames don't resolve via getaddrinfo
(ping6, curl, etc.) even though `dig @::1 -p 5354 …` works.
The mismatch is easy to miss: mDNSResponder swallows the timeout,
VPN clients that hijack DNS (NetworkExtension match-domain : *) mask
it entirely, and the symptom looks like "discovery hasn't found the
peer yet". Switch the shim to nameserver ::1 to match the daemon.
A node with a single tree peer has its periodic parent re-evaluation
disabled (it needs at least two peers for a meaningful comparison), so
it depends entirely on its peer pushing a TreeAnnounce for it to attach.
That push happens once at promotion time plus on the parent's slow
periodic no-change re-broadcast. If the one-shot attaching announce is
lost, the single-uplink node falls back to self-root and cannot recover
until the next periodic re-broadcast (reeval_interval_secs later),
stranding it out of the tree and unreachable end-to-end in the interim.
Make tree-position exchange self-healing on the receive path: when an
accepted TreeAnnounce advertises a root strictly worse (higher NodeAddr,
since election is smallest-wins) than our own, echo our current
declaration back to that peer. A stranded self-root node's announce now
provokes its better-rooted peer to re-push its real position immediately,
so the node re-attaches within a round-trip instead of waiting for the
periodic cadence.
Echo only in that one direction. If the peer's root is lower (better)
than ours, we are the stale side: the peer would ignore our worse root
anyway and we converge via the parent re-evaluation that follows, so
echoing back is pure waste and would double announce traffic in the
learning direction during a root change or partition merge. Equal roots
are already converged. The echo is bounded by the existing per-peer
500 ms tree-announce rate limiter and is a no-op once the peer adopts our
root, so it adds no traffic in a converged mesh.
Add a spanning-tree unit test that drives a converged child back to
self-root with its peer-ancestry view of the root cleared (modelling the
lost attaching announce), and asserts the root re-pushes on the
resulting root disagreement and the child re-attaches.
wait_until_connected fail-fasted on stall even when the mesh was all but
converged, abandoning the run with budget still unspent because one hard
pair straggled to come up. On the rekey-outbound-only topology this turned a
rare deep-node timing straggle (stacked discovery backoff + late bloom
propagation, which clears well inside the budget) into a false baseline RED.
Add a near_converged_slack threshold (default 2): when the number of
still-failing pairs is at or below the slack and the stall window elapses,
keep polling toward max_secs instead of bailing. A mesh genuinely far from
convergence still fast-bails on stall, and a never-converging pair still
hits the hard cap, so a real regression is never masked.
Add a self-contained behavioral test (wait-converge-test.sh) covering the
four contract cases: near-converged hold (with a slack=0 contrast that
proves the slack is what saves the run), far-from-converged fast-bail,
never-converging hard cap, and four-argument backward compatibility.
Ignore duplicate or counter-regressed ReceiverReports before updating
RTT, loss, goodput, or ETX, so a delayed or reordered report can no
longer poison link metrics. Compute the RTT-from-echo sample with
checked timestamp arithmetic and reject zero, negative, or out-of-range
results instead of risking wrap or underflow on untrusted wire values.
On the sender side, when receiver dwell time overflows the u16 wire
field, suppress the timestamp echo (send 0) and saturate dwell to
u16::MAX rather than truncating, so a bogus small RTT cannot be formed.
Adds duplicate, out-of-order, wrapped-add, and future-dated (checked_sub)
sample tests, asserts loss and goodput stay unchanged on a dropped
duplicate, and covers the dwell-overflow echo suppression. Documents the
behavior in the MMP design note and CHANGELOG.
Co-authored-by: Johnathan Corgan <johnathan@corganlabs.com>
The interop harness only tested a full mesh, where every pair is a direct
one-hop FMP link. That left multi-hop forwarding, routing, coordinate
handling, and mesh-size estimation untested across versions.
Add an opt-in multi-hop topology and three new checks:
- generate-configs.sh: FIPS_INTEROP_EDGES selects an explicit undirected
edge list instead of the full mesh, with symmetric peering, connectivity
validation (no isolated node, graph connected), and per-node degree plus
edge metadata in nodes.env. Unset means full mesh, unchanged.
- interop-test.sh: a --topology flag with a built-in multihop-3v-cycle
(six nodes, two of each version, one cycle, two leaves). The per-node
peer check now expects each node's adjacency degree rather than N-1, and
the all-pairs ping now also exercises cross-version forwarding over
non-adjacent pairs. Adds a control-differential data-plane continuity
stream across the rekey window (Phase 5b) and a strict plus/minus 25
percent mesh-size convergence check (Phase 7).
- interop-stress.sh: forward --topology through to the per-rep driver
(mutually exclusive with a positional node-spec).
Phase 1 makes the strict retrying ping authoritative. The convergence
detector (one fully-clean, no-retry sweep of every directed pair) is now an
advisory settle-wait whose timeout is non-fatal; the strict retrying ping
decides pass/fail, matching how the post-rekey phases already work. Under
packet loss a clean no-retry sweep of a large mesh is statistically unlikely
even when the mesh is healthy (30 pairs at 2 percent loss leaves only about
55 percent of sweeps clean), so the detector otherwise falsely failed runs
whose strict ping reported full reachability. CONVERGENCE_TIMEOUT is now
env-overridable and defaults to 90s for larger meshes under loss.
Full-mesh runs are unaffected. Validated end-to-end with the
multihop-3v-cycle topology across three versions: all 30 directed pairs
reachable including multi-hop routed pairs, zero data-plane loss through
both rekey cutovers, and mesh-size converging to the true node count on
every node.
Brings the maint-line OR-union mesh-size estimator fix and the
per-peer / capacity-cap log-level demotions forward to master.
Conflict resolution: compute_mesh_size resolved to master's config()
accessor form carrying maint's OR-union rewrite (drop the stale summing
`total`); the log-level demotions auto-merged into master's handler
versions. The equivalent master-only log "connected UDP socket installed"
(connected_udp.rs, a file that does not exist on maint) was demoted
info -> debug as part of this merge so the connected-UDP path matches the
rest of the per-peer lifecycle logging.
On a saturated public-mesh node the connection-lifecycle and capacity-cap
events fire continuously and drown out the genuinely notable INFO/WARN
lines. Demote them to debug and drop a redundant duplicate:
- FMP K-bit cutover promotion (encrypted): info -> debug
- "Connection promoted to active peer" (handshake): info -> debug, and
remove the duplicate "Inbound peer promoted to active" line that
shadowed it on the inbound path
- "Peer restart detected" (handshake): info -> debug
- "Peer removed and state cleaned up" (dispatch): info -> debug
- "Rejecting inbound TCP connection (max_inbound_connections reached)"
(tcp): warn -> debug
- "Congestion detected, CE flag set on forwarded packet" (forwarding):
warn -> debug
- "Removing peer: link dead timeout" (mmp): warn -> debug
These are expected, high-frequency conditions on a busy public node (new
and reconnecting peers, ECN CE marking, the inbound connection cap, and
link-dead churn), not operator-actionable signals.
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