A textarea holding a master file is a text box: it says nothing about what the
resolver will answer for the zone, and a typo in a record is invisible until a
client sees the wrong answer. `/api/zones` already knows — it is compiled from
the same files — so Local zones now shows the records the daemon has actually
compiled out of the selected file, with the SOA serial and the number of
delegations, above the editor that writes it. It is the same list the Zones
page shows, which is the point: the two pages are two views of one thing, not
two ways of guessing.
The Zones page gains the way back: a zone that comes from a master file rather
than the managed directory has an "Edit the file" button that goes to Local
zones, so a read-only row is a link rather than a dead end.
The console could not see local zones at all. `blocklist.local_zones` compiled
a store that nothing read back: there was no API for a zone, its records, its
delegations or the file a record came from, and no way to change one without
editing YAML and reloading. The Domains page is the blocklist's inline rules,
not local data, so nothing in the console covered the half of the server that
answers authoritatively from disk. There is now a Zones page and the endpoints
behind it: `GET /api/zones`, `POST`/`PUT`/`DELETE /api/zones/records`,
`POST`/`DELETE /api/zones/delegations` and `DELETE /api/zones?zone=`.
**The console owns one directory and nothing else.** `blocklist.managed_zones`
holds one `<apex>.zone` per zone, with that zone's SOA, apex NS set and the
records added there, and it is compiled by the same `localzone.Load` as the
operator's files — so a record added from the console is served on the next
query, with no reload and no restart. Files in `blocklist.local_zones` are
listed and shown read-only and are never rewritten; the key defaults to empty,
so a deployment that never sets it gets a zone browser and no zone writes.
Which file a record came from is now part of the store (`zone.files`, keyed by
the index the store already uses), so the snapshot can say "console" or "your
file" per record; the query path does not read it.
**The writer proves its own output.** A record is validated by the project's own
master-file parser, so `www` means `www.<zone>` and a bare CNAME target is
completed exactly as it would be in a zone file; the file is rendered, and the
rendering is re-parsed and compared with the records it meant to write before
the file is renamed into place. A writer bug that dropped a record would
otherwise present as a zone that silently stopped answering. A zone that cannot
answer is refused rather than created: no SOA means no NXDOMAIN or NODATA
authority, and no apex NS means nothing is delegated and no server is named. The
SOA's primary follows the apex NS set — a zone whose SOA names a server outside
its own NS set hands out a referral no resolver can follow — and the serial
moves on every write.
**A delegation takes the names under it, so a record below a cut is refused.**
The store answers those names as delegated without reading the zone file, which
would make the record data that looks alive and never answers. `DELETE
/api/zones?zone=` exists for the same reason from the other side: a zone the
console created is a real zone, so it says NXDOMAIN for what it does not hold,
and deleting a record is not what gives a name back to upstream. It is
refused for a zone that also has records outside the managed directory, because
removing that file would remove none of the zone.
**Two bugs the work turned up.** `engine.applyConfig` published local-record
metrics only when `blocklist.local_zones` was non-empty, so a zone the console
created was served but never counted; the gate is now the store's own record
count. And the record-value renderer fell back to `RR.String()` for every type
it did not know, which is the whole line rather than the RDATA — it wrote a
name and a TTL into the value column for DHCID, LOC, SSHFP and SVCB, and would
have fed that back as a record value on the next edit.
Every write recompiles the store and flushes the cache. Which names changed is
not knowable from the API, and a cached upstream answer for a name the zone now
answers is simply wrong, so the flush is blunt on purpose.
The wire shapes are type aliases in `internal/api` rather than copies, so there
is one set of json tags, and `TestZoneEndpointKeySets` pins the key set at every
level with a record and a delegation actually present — an empty list only
proves the envelope. `TestZoneWritesNeedAManagedDirectory` pins the read-only
default, and `TestZoneConsoleRoundTrip` walks the whole thing: a record added
through the API is answered authoritatively on the next query, a cut stops the
parent answering below it, and deleting the zone hands the name back.
Verified against a running instance built from this tree: records and
wildcards answer with `aa`, relative names are qualified, a record below a cut
is refused with a message that says why, and the file on disk is a zone file
an operator can read. The console page is typechecked and built; the browser was
not available in this round, so it has not been looked at.
Local zones were only editable as mounted files, so operators could not manage DNS entries from the console. Add a Local zones editor backed by a shared Kubernetes ConfigMap, validate master files before saving, scope the pod service account to that ConfigMap, and reload changed zones on every replica while flushing stale cache entries.
The relative Vite base made BrowserRouter pages request JavaScript and CSS under /auth/assets. The SPA fallback returned index.html for those paths, so the browser never mounted React and the sign-in page appeared blank. Emit root-relative asset URLs so every client-side route loads the embedded console bundle.
internal/app/contract_test.go asserts the exact JSON key set of every admin
endpoint, and the console was reading fields that shape does not contain —
which is how a page can be entirely blank while the Go suite is green. The
types file is rewritten against the canonical shapes and every consumer is
fixed onto it.
The page bugs that came out of it:
The cache "Lookups" column read `count` and "Last seen" read `last_seen`; the
cache tracks a hit counter and a byte count per name and sends `hits`, so
there is no last-seen data to show at all. Lookups now reads hits, Last seen
is gone, and the row's bytes are shown. The "Size" card shows bytes_human,
with size as the entry-budget hint it actually is.
The Sources table read `item.enabled`, `item.rules`, `item.bytes`,
`item.updated_at` and `item.err`; those live under `item.meta`, so the table
was blank and the per-row toggle posted `name: undefined`. The refresh toast
counted the names echoed back and said "every source" for an empty list.
The dashboard read `qps` and `total_queries` where the server sends
`queries_per_sec` and `queries_total`, and rendered a `latency`/`p99` block
the dashboard response never contained. The `Partial<Dashboard>`-and-cast
that papered over this is gone. `blocked_pct` arrives as 0..100 from REST and
0..1 over SSE, so formatPercent is 0..100 only and a new formatFraction
handles the SSE frame.
Logs rendered `qtype` as a string; it is a number, with `qtype_name`
alongside, so there is a formatQtype that prefers the name. The Domains page
read `item.list` where the server sends `source`, and showed an Updated column
with no timestamp behind it.
Upstreams treated `healthcheck_interval` and `breaker_cooldown` as numbers of
seconds; they are duration strings now, so the page parses them like the
bootstrap refresh it already handled and the write payload no longer sends the
runtime health fields the server ignores. A group edit stripped the four
server-owned counters before writing, because config.Group would reject them.
`whoami.can_write` and `whoami.read_only` were fetched and never used, so a
read-only API key still showed every Save control. A single whoami fetch now
lives in a session provider behind the app shell, every write control is
gated on it, and a banner says why when the key is read-only. It fails open:
an unreachable probe must not lock an operator out of their own console.
Two server fixes the console work exposed, both pinned by the contract test:
POST /api/blocklists/refresh with a body that omits `names` answered
{"names": null}, and the console counts the names it gets back to build its
toast — so "refresh everything" said "0 sources". A nil slice now becomes an
empty one and the key set does not depend on the request.
blocklist.SourceMeta.duration was a raw time.Duration, so it went out as a
nanosecond count and the console divided by 1e6 to compensate — the only
duration on the wire that was not a duration string. It is a config.Duration
now, and formatDuration parses it like the others.
The contract test grew to cover what the first pass left out: the domain
check in all three of its shapes (match, miss, and an error delivered as 200),
the log clear, the settings validate in both the valid and the malformed case,
the settings save and reload, and the first SSE frame.
Blocklists, Clients, Domains and Upstreams each carried a ToastLike shim
that duck-typed a react-hot-toast style API. The console uses its own
Toast context, so notify() was calling toast('some message') with a string
where ToastOptions is expected: every mutation toast rendered an empty
title. They now take the toast function from useToast() and send a real
{ title, tone } payload, mapping 'fail' onto the danger tone.
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