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What changes

Before this change, every session start on a host whose resolver was not set up for the box zone printed the full resolver advisory: a privileged sudo sh -c command of tens of lines that buried the session id, warnings and errors. Host DNS setup is now opt-in, reached from the feature that needs it, and the setup step can be reviewed and removed.

  • Session start no longer prints the advisory in any form. The hostname-proxy line it already prints gains a pointer: "for these names in a browser or other host programs, run min net setup". min ls prints the same line. The native-DNS line carries no pointer.
  • min net setup renders an annotated POSIX script for this host's current state (#!/bin/sh, a header naming what it configures, set -eu, one commented block per step), writes it to a private temporary file and runs it with sudo sh, so sudo is the only privilege prompt. It exits with the script's status. With nothing to do, it says so and exits 0; a blocker exits 1.
  • min net setup --print prints that same script to stdout, the note to stderr, and runs nothing, so the step can be read before it runs. Print and run share one rendered string.
  • min net setup --undo removes everything the step installs, and --undo --print shows it first:
    • macOS: both LaunchDaemons (dev.gominimal.zone, dev.minimal.local-range), both helper programs in /Library/PrivilegedHelperTools, the answerer channel, and /etc/resolver/min.internal.
    • Linux: the minzoned socket and service units, the root copy, the channel and the minzone0 link.
    • It needs no daemon and succeeds on a host that was never set up.
  • install.sh --uninstall checks for those host paths. On a terminal with min still present it offers to run min net setup --undo; otherwise it prints that command and the equivalent sudo commands. It never calls sudo itself.
  • Another user's service: the host service is machine-wide but runs as one operator against that operator's control sockets. Setup refuses, naming the user, when the installed service belongs to someone else. Spec 18 gains an open question on whether one service can serve several users.
  • Fixed on the way: a failed answerer step removed the root copy before running release-cancel from it. The cancel now runs first.
  • Spec (NET-122, NET-123): rewritten for opt-in setup, the script form, removal and the other-operator refusal, with verify lines.
  • scripts/session-e2e.sh: the five proofs read the script from mnl net setup --print, check that no step calls sudo itself, and run it with sudo -n sh.
  • docs/reference/cli-min.md: the net setup section covers all of the above.

Verification

  • just fix and just clippy are clean. cross clippy -p minimal --all-targets reports no warnings.
  • just test-cross, minimal lib: test result: FAILED. 370 passed; 2 failed. Both fail the same way on main: legacy_network_spellings_parse_with_hint and the timing-sensitive a_stopped_vm_does_not_hold_a_box_name_resolution. The three resolver::tests::advisory_* tests that failed before now pass: the syntax check fed the script to the container's dash with -n -c, which dash ignored, so it executed the script.
  • cross test -p minimal --test cli: test result: ok. 59 passed; 0 failed.
  • just test-installer: 519 passed, 0 failed. bash -n and shellcheck are clean on the changed scripts and on the rendered setup and undo scripts.
  • just e2e was not run locally. The KVM and macOS session-e2e lanes are the proof for the changed call sites.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Added min net setup to configure host DNS and name resolution, with --print to preview the setup script and --undo to remove the configuration.
    • Session startup now directs users to the setup command when host configuration is needed, without prompting or displaying the setup script.
    • Uninstall can offer to remove network setup and provides manual removal instructions when needed.
  • Documentation
    • Added command guidance covering setup requirements, platform behavior, script execution, and removal.

…starts and add min net setup

A session start on a host whose resolver is not configured for the box
zone printed the full advisory on every activation, interactive or not:
a privileged command of tens of lines that buried the session id,
warnings and errors in scripted and agent logs.

Print the advisory whole only on an interactive start (stderr is a
terminal and neither --no-prompt nor --no-input is set). Any other
start prints one line: the advisory's facts, without the lead-in to the
command block, followed by a pointer to `min net setup`.

Add `min net setup`, which prints the full command for this host's
current state from the same host reads a start makes (now factored into
advisory_host_reads). It takes the answerer port the way `min ls` does,
each VM host daemon's own status first, then the daemon listing. It
never starts a daemon, never runs the command and never prompts. With
no port to point at it says so and exits 1. On a host that needs no
step it says there is nothing to run.

The session e2e read the command from a start's redirected stderr,
which now carries only the one line, so each proof reads it from
`min net setup` run right after the start instead.
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Walkthrough

The change adds min net setup with print and undo modes. It generates standalone setup scripts for macOS and Linux, and updates session-start output to point proxy users to the command. Installer uninstall and end-to-end proofs now use the setup and undo flows.

Changes

Network Setup

Layer / File(s) Summary
Setup command and CLI routing
crates/minimal/src/cli.rs, crates/minimal/src/cmd/mod.rs, crates/minimal/src/cmd/net.rs, crates/minimal/src/cmd/list.rs, crates/minimal/src/tests.rs
The CLI adds min net setup with --print and --undo. Setup selects an available answerer port, prints or runs a host script, and undo does not require daemon state. Listing now supports best-effort reads.
Platform setup and undo scripts
crates/minimal/src/resolver.rs
The resolver module renders standalone POSIX scripts for host resolver and answerer setup, plus platform-specific undo scripts. The scripts use quoted heredocs and handle installation failures and cleanup.
Session-start setup pointer
crates/minimal/src/cmd/session.rs, crates/minimal/src/resolver.rs, crates/minimal/tests/cli.rs
Session start no longer prints the setup advisory or script. It renders the live name surface and points proxy users with a port to min net setup.
Setup documentation and proofs
docs/reference/cli-min.md, docs/specs/18-spec-box-networking/18-spec-box-networking.md, scripts/session-e2e.sh, scripts/zoned-macos-e2e.sh
Documentation describes setup and undo behavior. End-to-end proofs capture the printed script and run it through sudo sh.
Uninstall handling
scripts/install.sh, scripts/install_test.sh
Uninstall checks for host DNS setup and offers removal with min net setup --undo; tests cover hosts with and without setup files.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant CLI
  participant cmd_net_setup
  participant Daemon
  participant Resolver
  participant Host
  CLI->>cmd_net_setup: dispatch setup request
  cmd_net_setup->>Daemon: read VM listings and answerer status
  Daemon-->>cmd_net_setup: return port and status data
  cmd_net_setup->>Resolver: request advisory and setup script
  Resolver-->>cmd_net_setup: return note and script
  cmd_net_setup->>Host: run script through sudo sh
  Host-->>cmd_net_setup: return script status
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Then prints a script with ears held high
Mac and Linux get their steps
Undo tidies what was set
Session points the way ahead
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Reviewed: 1 finding, none blocking at 22bc9e430abe.

Address the comments on the diff.

Clobber: none: git log on the touched files shows this branch's own commits, no recent fix reverted; the two threads in .review/threads.json that concern the unbound-answerer start and ls_listings_best_effort are both resolved by the tip commits and re-raised correctly.

… to print it

`min net setup` now runs the command an interactive start prints, so the
command's own sudo is the one privilege prompt and the operator no longer
copies a multi-line block by hand. `--print` keeps the old behaviour: the
advisory whole, command block included, with no prompt. The session e2e
reads the command through `--print`, so CI never runs it.

The non-interactive start's one line now says `min net setup` configures
the host. NET-122 splits its host-setup requirement into run and print.
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- Around line 34-39: Update cmd_net_setup to use a setup-specific best-effort
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Comment thread crates/minimal/src/cmd/net.rs Resolved
@norrietaylor norrietaylor changed the title feat(minimal): print a one-line resolver advisory on non-interactive starts and add min net setup feat(minimal): print a one-line resolver advisory on scripted starts and add min net setup to run the setup command Oct 8, 2026
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docs/specs/18-spec-box-networking/18-spec-box-networking.md — 11 finding(s)

docs/specs/18-spec-box-networking/18-spec-box-networking.md:159: P004 NET-009 names test 'native_resolution_without_proxy_env', which was not found in the repository
docs/specs/18-spec-box-networking/18-spec-box-networking.md:304: P004 NET-040 names test 'fresh_install_own_ip_ingress_publishes_loopback', which was not found in the repository
docs/specs/18-spec-box-networking/18-spec-box-networking.md:309: P004 NET-041 names test 'installer_switch_binary_executable', which was not found in the repository
docs/specs/18-spec-box-networking/18-spec-box-networking.md:347: P004 NET-048 names test 'linux_amd64_manifest_ships_vm_stack', which was not found in the repository
docs/specs/18-spec-box-networking/18-spec-box-networking.md:352: P004 NET-049 names test 'fresh_linux_kvm_activate_local_minvmd', which was not found in the repository
docs/specs/18-spec-box-networking/18-spec-box-networking.md:357: P004 NET-050 names test 'linux_arm64_manifest_ships_vm_stack', which was not found in the repository
docs/specs/18-spec-box-networking/18-spec-box-networking.md:362: P004 NET-051 names test 'fresh_arm64_kvm_activate_local_minvmd', which was not found in the repository
docs/specs/18-spec-box-networking/18-spec-box-networking.md:669: P004 NET-139 names test 'vsock_rpc_refuses_non_host_cid', which was not found in the repository
docs/specs/18-spec-box-networking/18-spec-box-networking.md:686: P004 NET-132 names test 'proxy_sees_each_vm_box_by_its_switch_address', which was not found in the repository
docs/specs/18-spec-box-networking/18-spec-box-networking.md:712: P004 NET-134 names test 'deny_all_box_reaches_proxy_and_no_other_host_port', which was not found in the repository
docs/specs/18-spec-box-networking/18-spec-box-networking.md:736: P004 NET-107 names test 'session_outbound_request', which was not found in the repository

Advisory. None of this blocks the merge; the review decides.

Advisory, and never a merge gate. Linter: gominimal/foundry@f38dff3e, spec format: How Minimal Writes Specs.

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minimal-review — approval withheld

Verdict COMMENT — APPROVE withheld: 1 unresolved thread — coderabbitai[bot] crates/minimal/src/cmd/net.rs:40. No findings.

…e-operator refusal

NET-122 now binds host setup to the operator's request: a session start
points at `min net setup` on the name-surface line and prints no part of
the privileged script. The sub-requirements cover running and printing
the annotated POSIX script, refusing when another user's box-name service
is installed, and removing everything the step installs. NET-123's interim
points at the same step, and an open question asks whether one
machine-wide service can serve several users.
Host DNS is opt-in. A session start no longer prints the resolver
advisory in any form; the proxy name-surface line, which `min ls` prints
too, points at `min net setup` instead.

`min net setup --print` prints a POSIX script (`#!/bin/sh`, `set -eu`, a
header naming what it configures and that it runs as root, one commented
block per step) with no `sudo sh -c` wrapper. `min net setup` writes the
same rendered script to a private temp file and runs `sudo sh <file>`.
A failed answerer step now cancels the port release before it removes the
copy that runs the cancel.

`min net setup --undo` removes the answerer service, its program copy and
channel, the resolver hook and, on macOS, the range unit; it needs no
daemon and succeeds on a clean host. Setup refuses, naming the user, when
the installed box-name service runs as another user.
… uninstall

The session e2e reads `min net setup --print`'s stdout as the script, its
note from stderr, and runs the file with one `sudo -n sh`. The installer's
`--uninstall` offers `min net setup --undo` while the host files the step
installs are present, prompting only on a terminal like the AppArmor
offer, and otherwise prints the root commands that stay valid once `min`
is gone.
@norrietaylor norrietaylor changed the title feat(minimal): print a one-line resolver advisory on scripted starts and add min net setup to run the setup command feat(minimal): make host DNS setup opt-in with a reviewable min net setup script and --undo Oct 8, 2026
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minimal-review — advisory review

Verdict COMMENT — 1 finding, 1 inline.

Comment thread crates/minimal/src/cmd/session.rs Resolved
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/revise resolve code review concerns

…that calls sudo

min net setup now prints a #!/bin/sh script with no sudo inside it and runs it with sudo sh,
so the lane's sh -c ran it unprivileged and failed on /etc/resolver. The lane runs it as root
with sudo -n, the way the session e2e does, and checks no step escalates on its own.
…eep setup's listings

A start whose daemon reports an answerer port it has not bound printed no surface line, so
the NET-122 pointer was missing. It now prints the proxy's line, which carries it.

min net setup lost every listing when the selected VM failed to answer, and reported no port
even when another VM had one. It now skips that VM and keeps the rest; min ls stays strict.
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minimal-review — approved

Verdict APPROVE — No findings.

@minimal-foundry minimal-foundry Bot added the review:approved minimal-review approved the current head label Oct 8, 2026
…ts pointer

One helper picks the start's surface line, the proxy's when no verdict exists,

so a unit test covers the case a daemon reports an answerer port it has not bound.
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minimal-review — advisory review

Verdict COMMENT — 1 finding, 1 inline.

Comment thread crates/minimal/src/cmd/net.rs Resolved
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