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Both suites ran `docker compose up -d --build` unconditionally, and their compose files carry both a build context and an image name, so the flag rebuilt and retagged the shared test image from the shared build context on every run. Their --skip-build flag did not cover it: it guarded only the Rust build above. Under a harness that has already built the image and handed it over, that rebuild can only replace the binaries under test with whatever the shared context currently holds. The nat scripts had the mirror-image problem. Their image guard built a replacement whenever the image was missing, which is right by hand and wrong under a harness: when the caller names an image it built, a miss means something upstream is broken, and manufacturing a substitute hides that. They now fail loudly in that case and keep building only on the hand path. The mesh-lab guard reads the same variable and its build hint moves to the script that still produces the shared tag.
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
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