The console's TypeScript types are hand-written and apiFetch ends in
`JSON.parse(text) as T`, so nothing in the toolchain compared them with the
Go structs. A field that lost its json tag, or a response a struct never had,
showed up as an empty table in a browser and nowhere else: the Go suite was
green and the console was wrong. internal/app/contract_test.go now asserts the
exact JSON key set of every admin endpoint, driven through the real router
with the real hook implementations, plus a test that drives the two write
endpoints with the exact payload web/src builds.
The drift it found, all four fixed here:
blocklist.Source and SourceMeta had no json tags at all, so GET /api/blocklists
sent Go field names ("URL"/"Format") where the console expects snake_case: the
Sources table rendered blank rows and its per-row toggle posted
`name: undefined`. Tagged to match ParseStats.
acl.GroupSummary was flat where the console reads a nested `match` object — the
same shape config.Group has — so every group card read "matches nothing". The
four match fields are nested now, under a new acl.Match.
PUT /api/clients answered 400 `json: unknown field "ptr_suffixes"` to the
console's payload, because config.Group and config.Match carried yaml tags only
and the decoder runs with DisallowUnknownFields. Both structs have json tags
now; the same applies to config.UpstreamServer and UpstreamBootstrap.
PUT /api/upstreams answered 400 `json: unknown field "health"`, because the
console round-trips the whole server object it read, runtime health fields
included. They are accepted and ignored, because the server owns them, and they
are `yaml:"-"` so settings.yaml does not gain runtime state.
Also fixed, each with a test:
A duration on the wire was a nanosecond count. config.Duration had a
MarshalYAML but no MarshalJSON, so bootstraps[].refresh arrived as 30000000000
while the console typed the field as a string, and healthcheck_interval was a
float of seconds in one place and a string in another. Durations on the wire
are duration strings everywhere now — the same spelling config.yaml uses — and a
bare JSON number is still accepted and means seconds, not nanoseconds.
TestDurationJSONForm used to pin the old behaviour and now pins the new one,
saying in its comment that the old behaviour was the bug.
A log row's key set depended on the row. api.LogEntry was omitempty on
client_group, response, upstream and list, so a query with no ACL group
arrived without the key and the console rendered "undefined" where the column
should be empty. The contract test can only pin one shape if the server emits
one, so nothing on that struct is omitempty any more.
A dead peer stayed in the cluster peer list forever. Cluster.seen was only ever
added to and deleted from on an explicit `bye`, so a node that crashed — or
whose Valkey connection died — was reported as a live peer for the life of the
process, and its stale blocklist digest was flagged as divergence forever.
Peers() now reaps peers unheard for peer_ttl*4 and stamps each state with the
receiver's own clock, so clock skew between two machines can neither reap a
healthy peer nor keep a dead one. Discover() ages out the same way on the
publisher's own last_seen stamp, because the keyed Valkey record outlives a
crash: a live node keeps refreshing the key's TTL, so a dead node's field stayed
readable for the life of the fleet.
peer_ttl: 0 would have crashed the process. time.NewTicker(PeerTTL/2) panics on
a non-positive period and `EXPIRE key 0` deletes the heartbeat key, so a config
that left peer_ttl unset would have taken the process down at Start, or made
every instance believe it is alone in the fleet. Both go through peerTTL() and
peerDeadline(), which fall back to the default.
Two cluster tests raced on the wire, not on the product, and one was
environment-dependent rather than wrong. A node that joined after another's
heartbeat was in flight hears about it on the next tick, so "b does not see a"
read immediately after "a sees b" is a coin flip; the divergence test waited for
a digest on the wrong node's view of the fleet; and 127.0.0.1:1 is only
unbindable outside a container that sets
net.ipv4.ip_unprivileged_port_start=0, where it binds and the partial-bind test
fails with both transports up. That test now occupies a port with a live
listener in the test process, which is a deterministic EADDRINUSE on every
machine and every uid.
internal/server/counters_test.go covers the counter-key layer that no other
test touched: the "<transport>.<field>" keyspace, that the aggregate folds only
the known fields, and that the snapshot is safe while counters move.
Two pinned behaviours changed on purpose, each with a test that says so:
An RPZ record did not cover the name it names. rpzRule gave a bare owner name
the subdomain form (*.name), so analytics.example.org. in a policy zone blocked
cdn.analytics.example.org. and left analytics.example.org. resolving normally —
and an rpz-passthru. record did not allowlist its own domain either. RPZ
semantics say the record applies to the domain and everything under it, so a
bare owner now takes the apex form **.name; an owner written with an explicit *.
is still strict, so a zone that wants subdomain-only behaviour can still ask for
it. This changes which queries get blocked for an existing policy zone, which is
why it wanted a decision. TestExampleRPZZoneCoversTheApexItNames pins both
halves and the example zone now says which half it relies on.
metrics.OutcomeLocal had no producer. The engine reported a local-zone answer as
qlog.ActionAllow, which outcomeFor mapped to OutcomeUpstream, so every locally
answered query was counted as an upstream one and the outcome="local" series was
never published — the dashboard's local column was permanently empty.
Response.Local is now set on the local-zone path and outcomeFor consults it
first. That moves published counters, so the README's metrics section says so
too.
The container limit is 1Gi, so declare the envelope next to it: a 1GiB soft
heap limit, a 256MiB reserve for what the Go heap does not account for, and an
explicit 384MiB cache byte budget. cache.size is an entry count, so the byte
budget is what actually bounds the cache now that ParseSize applies its units.
STATUS.md records the round: the fixes, the new suites (engine, config.Size,
metrics, and the api suite that landed separately), three findings left
unfixed -- the login rate limiter never applies to the login endpoint, auth
configuration is frozen at New, and api.constantTimeEqual is dead -- and the
continuation plan with items 1, 2, 5 and 6 struck.
AGENTS.md is the part that should not churn: the settled decisions with their
reasons, the invariants that hold the design together, the working rules, and
the security-sensitive areas that have been wrong before. A new agent should
read it and STATUS.md and know what not to re-litigate.
Deliberately excluded: anything about how to search, read or patch. Those are
being automated per round, and writing advice about them into the repo would
rot. What is here instead is project-specific and cannot be automated away —
for example that a PTR suffix must match on a label boundary, that a truncated
answer must never be cached, and that the UDP read deadline has to be reset every
iteration or the loop spins.
The working rules are the part worth arguing for. Never leave the tree red,
because nobody can detect the budget running out: three of five subagents left
broken files, and each cost a round to discover. Report honestly, and when a test
fails, decide first whether the test, the implementation or the specification is
wrong — all three happen here, and the decision belongs in the commit message.
STATUS.md now records a fully green tree: nine packages with suites, all passing
under -race. The plan starts with internal/engine, which is the largest
uncovered surface and the one every packet goes through.
Records the current state rather than the previous plan. The important change
is in the localzone section: the relative-CNAME defect is narrowed to how
Store re-serialises records, not the parser — qualifyRdata and relative are
both correct and assemble only touches the owner, so the next person should
look at localzone rather than "fixing" the parser.
Also adds make check-go to the dev loop, the memory envelope, the env-expansion
fix (the admin API key was the literal string "${FANCYDNS_API_KEY}" behind a
green build), the two open decisions, and a reworked plan starting with the one
red package.
Adds to the hygiene notes: subagent briefs must require that whatever is on disk
when the budget runs out compiles and passes, because an agent cannot know it is
out of budget. Three of five left a red tree.
A cgroup OOM kill is the worst outcome available to a resolver: an outage
rather than a cache miss, with no chance to serve stale on the way out. So:
- memory.limit / memory.reserve / memory.cache_max_bytes, a new config section.
limit becomes a GOMEMLIMIT through debug.SetMemoryLimit, reduced by the
reserve. The reserve exists because the Go heap does not account for
goroutine stacks, runtime metadata, or the bbolt mmap backing the cache
snapshot and the query log — handing the runtime the full cgroup limit is how
you get killed by a mechanism that believed it had headroom.
- config.Size, so a budget reads as "512MiB" rather than a byte count converted
by hand. Strict about junk: "512MiBx" is an error.
- The cache byte budget is now actually fed to the LRU. It already enforced
maxBytes per shard on insert, but had no setter and nothing ever called one,
so the footprint of cache.size was unbounded: one cached ANY or TXT answer
can be tens of kilobytes, so 500k entries is anywhere from 150MB to several GB
depending on what the traffic asked for.
- api.pprof mounts net/http/pprof on the admin listener. The pprof handlers sit
on the app-level mux, not inside the API's own handler, so they would bypass
the auth middleware entirely; the option is therefore refused unless every
admin address is loopback. Profiling means port-forwarding, so this is safe
by construction rather than by policy, and cmdline cannot leak an argument
that happens to be a key.
- serveUDP was calling net.ResolveUDPAddr per packet. The peer already is a
*net.UDPAddr; that call builds a string, re-parses the port and allocates on
the busiest path in the process.
Also fixes a flaky test: TestParallelPolicyAnswersFromTheFastestUpstream
asserted the slow upstreams were hit, but the fan-out cancels on the first
answer, so whether they were dispatched before cancellation is a real race. It
now asserts the answer came from the fast upstream and that nothing waited.
Records the four bugs the first end-to-end run surfaced, what is green, what
is still without a suite, and what is in flight, so the next session does not
start from the previous plan.
- cache.Entry.Hits and LRU.perShard become atomics; SetCapacity now evicts
down to the new budget; packKey fully qualifies names before packing
- resolver.Pool rewritten copy-on-write (atomic.Pointer to an immutable
state); Upstream is immutable with shared *upstreamStats, so health
survives a Rebind and the query path stops racing the config hook
- Pool.Exchange no longer marks a dead upstream healthy: Success was
called before the error check, so the breaker never tripped
- qlog live ring publishes through atomic pointers
- blocklist.Holder.Get nil-safe; Builder lists each source once
- web: fix toast(string) misuse that rendered empty mutation toasts
- add unit tests for cache (with benchmarks) and zonefile
- STATUS.md: green -race integration suite, remaining failures and the
broken bbolt snapshot round trip documented
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