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A failed data-plane ping was the one step in the NAT lab that reported
nothing. ping_peer sent ping6's output to /dev/null and the three
scenarios called it bare, so under `set -euo pipefail` a failure killed
the script with no message, without running the scenario's diagnostics
dump, and without tearing down; the next scenario's opening cleanup then
removed the failed containers and their logs. Two nat-symmetric failures
on the builder logged only the peer counts and FAIL, and the cause had to
be found by reproducing it locally.
ping_peer now captures ping6's output, names the source container, the
destination and the exit status on failure, and returns non-zero, matching
the assertion helpers above it. The six call sites wrap it in the same
`|| { dump_*_diagnostics; return 1; }` shape every other step uses. The
healthy path stays silent and the pass/fail verdict is unchanged.
NAT Lab Harness
Real Docker-based NAT traversal integration tests for the mainline FIPS Nostr/STUN bootstrap path.
This harness spins up:
- two FIPS nodes
- a local Nostr relay
- a local STUN server
- one or two Linux router containers performing NAT with
iptables
For the NAT scenarios, the node LAN interfaces are not attached to
Docker bridge networks. The harness creates explicit veth pairs and
moves them into the node and router namespaces after docker compose up
so every packet must traverse the router namespace.
It covers three scenarios:
cone: both peers behind explicit namespace/veth full-cone emulation, UDP traversal succeedssymmetric: both peers behind symmetric-style NAT, UDP traversal fails, TCP fallback succeedslan: both peers share a LAN subnet, LAN targets are preferred over reflexive addresses
NAT model notes
The harness does not rely on plain Docker MASQUERADE for the cone case.
cone- uses explicit full-cone emulation in the router namespace
- outbound UDP is
SNATed to the router WAN address while preserving the source port - inbound UDP to the router WAN address is
DNATed back to the single LAN host regardless of remote source
symmetric- uses UDP
MASQUERADE --random-fully - outbound mappings may be port-randomized and are only reopened by matching conntrack state
- uses UDP
This distinction matters because plain MASQUERADE is convenient source NAT, but it does not by itself model the "accept from any remote once mapped" behavior expected from a full-cone NAT.
Prerequisites
- Docker with Compose support
- locally built
fips-test:latest
Build the test image with:
./testing/scripts/build.sh
Run
Run all scenarios:
./testing/nat/scripts/nat-test.sh
Run one scenario:
./testing/nat/scripts/nat-test.sh cone
./testing/nat/scripts/nat-test.sh symmetric
./testing/nat/scripts/nat-test.sh lan
Layout
docker-compose.yml- relay/STUN/WAN topology plus container definitions
node/- node bootstrap wrapper that waits for the injected veth interface
router/- NAT router image and
iptablessetup
- NAT router image and
stun/- minimal STUN binding responder
relay/- local
strfryconfig
- local
scripts/generate-configs.sh- derives ephemeral identities and writes per-scenario FIPS configs
scripts/setup-topology.sh- injects and configures the NAT LAN
vethpairs in the container namespaces
- injects and configures the NAT LAN
scripts/nat-test.sh- boots the lab, waits for convergence, and asserts the resulting path
scripts/nostr-relay-test.sh- exercises the Nostr overlay advert publish/consume round-trip, including rejection of a malformed advert event
scripts/stun-faults-test.sh- cycles the daemon through STUN drop, delay and outage faults and asserts graceful behavior at each step
Assertions
-
cone- both nodes connect
- connected transport is UDP
- active link remote addresses are on the WAN NAT subnet
-
symmetric- NAT bootstrap does not establish a UDP link
- fallback converges
- connected transport is TCP via router-published WAN addresses
-
lan- both nodes connect
- connected transport is UDP
- active link remote addresses stay on the shared LAN subnet