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What

When several own-address boxes on one shared address publish the same ingress port, the name registry now keeps exactly one holder for it, elects the next one deterministically, and keeps the port with the box that was serving it across a daemon restart.

Why

The first box to publish a shared-address port forwards it and later boxes yield. When the holder was destroyed, every yielder became holder of record at once, and none was told who held the port. After a daemon restart the port could go to a different box, because sessions resume in store-key order, which is not creation order, and because the registry is rebuilt from scratch and did not know which box had been serving the port.

Changes

  • net/dns.rs: one holder per (address, port). A standing holder keeps the port while its publish stands. When its publish is withdrawn, leaves the address or stops naming the port, the lowest SessionId still publishing it becomes holder, a box whose host is running before one whose host is stopped, and the other boxes read that box as the holder. The election is not re-run when a box stops or starts. unpublish_own_address returns the hand-overs it made.
  • net/dns.rs, session.rs, sessions crate: each host launch marks the ports its box holds as bound and records them on the session record (bound_ports, omitted when empty). At a box's first publish after a daemon start the record is read back, and the box takes each port it had bound from a holder that has bound nothing. A holder that has bound the port is never displaced.
  • sessions.rs: resume_active_sessions resumes in SessionId order; the address sweeps return in id order. This order decides the holder only among boxes none of which bound the port before the restart.
  • session.rs: each hand-over is logged at info. No rebind is made here.

Not in this change

  • The new holder's forward is not bound while it runs: it binds at that box's next attach. Binding it live needs the VM host daemon to hand the listener over, which is a separate change.
  • The first holder is still the first box to publish, not the box created earliest. An older box that publishes later yields, and keeps yielding after a restart once the holder has launched. A holder that never launched before a restart can lose the port to an older box at that restart; it had bound no forward.
  • A standing holder whose host stops keeps the port. Only a hand-ov 8000 er prefers a running box.

Verification

  • Linux (aarch64, lima), on this branch at 8795fb6d6: just test 3732 tests run: 3732 passed (1 leaky), 24 skipped; just test-one net:: -p minimald 334 tests run: 334 passed, 662 skipped; just clippy and just fmt-check clean.
  • Tests: shared_address_port_has_one_holder_earliest_created, shared_address_yielders_name_the_current_holder, a_holder_that_drops_a_port_hands_only_that_port_over, shared_address_sweeps_list_boxes_oldest_first, shared_address_holder_same_in_any_resume_order, a_destroyed_holder_hands_the_port_to_a_running_box_before_a_stopped_one, a_restored_bound_port_returns_to_the_box_that_bound_it, a_restored_bound_port_does_not_displace_a_holder_that_bound_it, shared_address_port_stays_with_the_box_that_bound_it_across_a_restart. The resume-order test fails with the sort disabled; the stopped-box and restart tests failed before their fixes.
  • NOT run: just test-cross, just e2e, just test-vm.

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Shared-address port ownership now remains consistent when publishers restart, move, stop publishing, or are removed. Vacated ports pass to the earliest-created remaining publisher, and collision reports reflect the current holder.
    • Active sessions resume in a consistent order, preventing restart order from changing which publisher holds a shared port.
    • When a publisher is removed, any remaining publisher taking over its port is now reported.

… order

Several own-address boxes can declare one ingress port at a shared
loopback address. The first to publish holds the port and the others
yield it. When the holder was destroyed, every yielding box became the
holder of record at once, and after a daemon restart the port could go
to a different box than the one that held it before.

The name registry now keeps one holder per address and port. A standing
holder keeps the port. When its publish is withdrawn, leaves the address
or stops naming the port, the lowest session id still publishing it
takes over, and the other boxes report that box as the holder. The
session id is a UUIDv7, so that is the box created earliest.

Withdrawing a publish returns the hand-overs it made. The destroy path
logs them; binding the new holder's forward on a running box is not
part of this change, so the port is bound at that box's next attach.

Resuming sessions at daemon start and the registry's address sweeps now
run in session id order, so a restart elects the same holder.
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Shared-address port arbitration now records one holder per address and port. When a holder withdraws or drops a port, the registry transfers it to the lowest-ID remaining publisher. Publish queries and session resumption use session-ID order.

Changes: Shared-address port ownership

Layer / File(s) Summary
Port holder arbitration
crates/minimald/src/net/dns.rs
The registry records one holder for each shared address and port. Collisions identify the current holder. When a holder withdraws or drops a port, the registry transfers it to the lowest-ID remaining publisher. Tests cover holder election and handovers.
Deterministic republish order
crates/minimald/src/net/dns.rs, crates/minimald/src/sessions.rs, crates/minimald/src/session/tests.rs
Publish queries and session resumption sort by session ID. A regression test checks that the older box holds the port after restart.
Deregistration handover reporting
crates/minimald/src/net/dns.rs, crates/minimald/src/session.rs
Unpublishing returns handover records. Permanent deregistration logs each new holder, address, port, and departing session.

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unsafe-libyaml advisory exception
deny.toml
The advisory configuration ignores RUSTSEC-2024-0449 for unsafe-libyaml. A comment documents its Nickel dependency path and the condition for removing the ignore.

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Change: Bug fix

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The unpublish API documentation promises caller-side binding that does not occur. Update it to describe next-attach binding; the mismatch is localized and suitable for bounded follow-up.

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I thumped through the ports where sessions convene,
One holder stood steady, its address kept clean.
When it stepped away, the next took the lead,
The lowest ID received what it would need.
Through restart and sweep, the holders aligned,
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Approved: every review thread resolved at e8701321111e.

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minimal-review — advisory review

Verdict COMMENT — 1 finding, 1 inline.

Comment thread crates/minimald/src/sessions.rs Resolved
unsafe-libyaml is archived upstream with no maintained release. It is reached
only through nickel-lang-core's non-optional serde_yaml dependency, so no
version bump clears the advisory.

(cherry picked from commit 4d0ffdf)
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crates/minimald/src/net/dns.rs (1)

1206-1227: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Document next-attach handover binding.

unpublish_own_address is public from the public net::dns module, but its documentation says callers bind returned forwards. The production caller only logs the handovers, and the new holder binds its forward at its next attach. Update the comment to describe the implemented behavior.

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-    /// and those hand-overs are returned
-    /// beside the address, for the caller to bind the new holders' forwards.
+    /// and those hand-overs are returned beside the address for the caller
+    /// to record. A new holder's forward is bound when that box next attaches.
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Both points addressed: the box that bound a shared port now keeps it across a restart via the recorded bound_ports, and the hand-over elects a running box before a stopped one; thanks.

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… order (#2185)

* fix(minimald): elect one holder for a shared ingress port by creation order

Several own-address boxes can declare one ingress port at a shared
loopback address. The first to publish holds the port and the others
yield it. When the holder was destroyed, every yielding box became the
holder of record at once, and after a daemon restart the port could go
to a different box than the one that held it before.

The name registry now keeps one holder per address and port. A standing
holder keeps the port. When its publish is withdrawn, leaves the address
or stops naming the port, the lowest session id still publishing it
takes over, and the other boxes report that box as the holder. The
session id is a UUIDv7, so that is the box created earliest.

Withdrawing a publish returns the hand-overs it made. The destroy path
logs them; binding the new holder's forward on a running box is not
part of this change, so the port is bound at that box's next attach.

Resuming sessions at daemon start and the registry's address sweeps now
run in session id order, so a restart elects the same holder.

* fix(minimald): say the re-publish hand-over is logged in place, not delivered to callers

* chore(deny): ignore RUSTSEC-2024-0449 until nickel moves off serde_yaml

unsafe-libyaml is archived upstream with no maintained release. It is reached
only through nickel-lang-core's non-optional serde_yaml dependency, so no
version bump clears the advisory.

(cherry picked from commit 4d0ffdf)

* fix(minimald): hand a shared port to a running box before a stopped one

* fix(minimald): keep a shared port with the box that bound it across a restart

* fix(sessions): name the empty bound-port set by its type in record literals

* test(minimald): read the restarted box's record before taking the registry lock

* test(minimald): register the yielding box's name in the restored-port test

* fix(minimald): close the gap in the unrecorded bound-ports warning

(cherry picked from commit a4ff327)
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