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Routing-Key: inbox-route/I_kwDOSUhdos8AAAABVgR08A

A deny-all host-address box on a VM-backed guest resolved out-of-zone names at the switch gateway: the interim NET-079 carve-out admitted the gateway's port 53 whole, UDP and TCP, so a box that admits no destination could still ask a resolver beyond the machine — and DNS over TCP could retry past the verdict.

The guest's deny subtree now steers its UDP-53 lookups onto a loopback listener on the answerer's port (NET-079's deny-all case): deny_out admits the listener beside the reply direction, the dstnat match carries no destination address, and the listener answers REFUSED for every name outside the box zone, NODATA for an in-zone non-A question, and forwards the zone's A questions to the switch gateway alone. DNS over TCP is neither steered nor admitted. A message with no question is answered REFUSED, and a non-QUERY opcode (UPDATE, NOTIFY) NOTIMP, so neither rides the forward path.

Native hosts change too. The installer's dstnat match no longer carries ip daddr $answerer_address (install-host-classifier.sh, render_ruleset), and the native host renders the same rule. On a native host a deny-all box's UDP 53 to any address is now retargeted onto the box-zone answerer, where before only UDP 53 to the answerer's own address matched and UDP 53 elsewhere met the deny chain's ICMP reject. The box still reaches only the answerer, which answers the zone and refuses the rest. What changes is the failure mode for a box that asks an off-host resolver: an answerer verdict instead of a reject.

  • net::guest_dns: the listener itself — verdicts, forwarding, and the boot-time bind on the answerer's port at the guest's loopback
  • install-host-classifier.sh: the deny subtree's dstnat steer and listener-only admission; the interim --gateway-resolver flag is gone
  • classifier.rs/main.rs: the guest render hands the listener's address and port; the guest daemon starts the listener after its table loads
  • coupled pins follow the new table shape: provider.rs, the installer test, the guest classifier integration suite

Verification

  • cargo fmt --all --check — clean
  • cargo clippy --workspace --all-targets --locked -- -D warnings — clean
  • cargo test --locked -p minimald over the touched suites (net::guest_dns, net::classifier, net::provider, net::answerer) — 82 passed serially; the only failures in the full run are pre-existing sandbox flakes, reproduced identically on the unmodified tree

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Added a guest DNS listener that forwards eligible in-zone A-record lookups to the switch gateway and refuses queries for names outside its scope.
    • Guest deny-all DNS traffic over UDP is now redirected to the listener; TCP DNS remains blocked.

A deny-all host-address box on a VM-backed guest resolved out-of-zone
names at the switch gateway: the interim NET-079 carve-out admitted the
gateway's port 53 whole, UDP and TCP, so a box that admits no destination
could still ask a resolver beyond the machine — and DNS over TCP could
retry past the verdict.

The guest's deny subtree now steers its UDP-53 lookups onto a loopback
listener on the answerer's port (NET-141 slice 2): deny_out admits the
listener beside the reply direction, the dstnat match carries no
destination address (the box asks the gateway like every other
host-address box; the steer is the carve-out), and the listener itself
answers REFUSED for every name outside the box zone — apex and a
non-lowercase zone suffix among them — NODATA for an in-zone non-A
question, and forwards the zone's A questions to the switch gateway
alone. DNS over TCP is neither steered nor admitted.

The guest daemon starts the listener after its classifier table loads;
the daemon's own lookups are untouched (cgroup-keyed match, deny path
only). The interim --gateway-resolver installer flag and every test,
digest and pin that spelled the interim carve-out follow the new shape.

Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
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The change adds a guest DNS listener and routes deny-subtree UDP port 53 lookups to it. The listener forwards eligible in-zone A queries to the switch gateway and returns local responses for other parsed queries. The daemon starts the listener after guest classifier setup.

Changes: Guest DNS handling

Layer / File(s) Summary
Guest DNS listener
crates/minimald/src/net/guest_dns.rs, crates/minimald/src/net/dns_gate.rs, crates/minimald/src/net/mod.rs
Adds a loopback listener that refuses out-of-zone queries, returns empty NoError responses for in-zone non-A queries, and forwards eligible A queries to the switch gateway. Tests cover query decisions, forwarding, and dropped inputs.
Classifier DNS steering
scripts/install-host-classifier.sh, crates/minimald/src/net/classifier.rs, crates/minimald/src/net/provider.rs, scripts/install_test.sh, scripts/session-e2e.sh, crates/minimald/src/main.rs
Removes the --gateway-resolver option. Classifier rendering now passes the answerer address and port, and installer rules redirect deny-subtree UDP port 53 traffic to that endpoint. Related assertions and descriptions reflect the steering behavior.
Listener startup and integration checks
crates/minimald/src/main.rs, crates/minvmd/tests/guest_classifier_integration.rs
Starts the guest DNS listener after classifier setup. Integration checks cover in-zone resolution, an out-of-zone REFUSED response, listener logging, and TCP port 53 refusal.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant GuestClient
  participant GuestClassifier
  participant GuestDnsListener
  participant SwitchGatewayDns
  GuestClient->>GuestClassifier: Send UDP port 53 query
  GuestClassifier->>GuestDnsListener: Redirect query to listener
  GuestDnsListener->>GuestDnsListener: Classify query questions
  GuestDnsListener->>SwitchGatewayDns: Forward eligible in-zone A query
  SwitchGatewayDns-->>GuestDnsListener: Return DNS reply
  GuestDnsListener-->>GuestClient: Relay DNS reply
  GuestDnsListener-->>GuestClient: Return REFUSED for out-of-zone query
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Possibly related PRs

  • gominimal/minimal#2012: Added the VM guest gateway DNS path and the --gateway-resolver contract that this change replaces.

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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 09c3f

DNS forwarding can exhaust the guest daemon’s resources or relay a forged answer. If the listener cannot bind, affected boxes also lose DNS while the daemon continues running. Address these paths before merging.

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A rabbit heard queries hop by,
The guest DNS listener replied.
It sent A names upstream,
Returned refusals with a thump,
Then napped as the packets slid by.

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Review comments at @crates/minimald/src/net/guest_dns.rs:
- Around line 267-290: Connect the `forward_socket` to `gateway` before sending,
then use `send` and `recv` instead of `send_to` and `recv_from` so replies are
accepted only from the gateway. Preserve the existing error logging and early
returns for connection, send, and receive failures.
- Around line 132-142: Limit concurrent forwarding in `serve` by using a shared
Tokio semaphore and acquiring a permit before spawning `forward`; when no permit
is available, drop the datagram. Hold the permit for the task’s duration and
release it when `forward` completes.
- Around line 66-112: Update guest_dns::start to return the bind failure instead
of only logging and returning, while preserving the existing listener setup on
success. Propagate that failure from the guest startup call in main as a startup
error so the daemon does not continue without the DNS listener.

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@norrietaylor norrietaylor changed the title fix: fix(net): refuse out-of-zone names at a guest deny-subtree DNS listener fix(net): refuse out-of-zone names at a guest deny-subtree DNS listener Oct 18, 2026
Connect each forward socket to the gateway so a datagram from any other
sender is dropped, cap forwards in flight so a flood cannot exhaust the
daemon's descriptors, and drop the needless to_string calls clippy
rejects in the guest classifier integration test.
… listener

decide() forwarded a message with no question, and an UPDATE or NOTIFY
whose zone section named an in-zone A, because every per-question check
passed vacuously. Answer the first REFUSED and the rest NOTIMP, so the
forward path carries only standard lookups.

Bind the listener directly so its log does not read as the box-zone
answerer, pin the integration test's boot-log check to the exact
example.com REFUSED line, and cite NET-079 (the deny-all case) rather
than NET-141 at the lines this change added.
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crate::traced landed on main after the release branch was cut, so the
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…(0.7.0 backport) (#2742)

* fix(minimal): hold the answerer channel socket owner-only (#2297)

* fix(minimal,minvmd): hold the answerer channel socket owner-only

The box-zone answerer's channel socket was world-connectable: the
launchd plist bound it SockPathMode 0666 and the systemd socket unit
SocketMode=0666, leaving the peer-uid gate the only check on who may
connect. Both units now bind it owner-only -- SockPathOwner the
operator, SockPathMode 0600 on launchd; SocketUser the operator,
SocketMode=0600 on systemd -- with the uid gate kept as defence in
depth.

An install whose socket node carries group or other bits -- one that
predates the mode, or a hand that relaxed it -- now fails custody
through a channel_mode fact, so the advisory re-surfaces and a step
re-run re-binds the socket. The accept loop's foreign-refusal warn is
rate-limited to a few lines a second, so a connect storm cannot flood
the log; the refusals themselves are never limited.

* fix(minimal,minimald,minvmd): name the other account on a refused channel connect

A daemon whose connect the owner-only channel socket refuses now says
the host's DNS service belongs to another account, not a bare
Permission denied. The answerer step needs the operator's account to
resolve, with no stand-in uid, and custody fails a channel socket the
operator does not own.

* fix(minimal,minvmd): leave another operator's DNS service alone

A channel socket owned by another existing, non-root account is that
operator's service: the answerer step is now unavailable with the same
sentence the daemons say on a refused connect, instead of a custody
failure whose step would reinstall the unit and take the service over.
A root-owned socket, or one whose uid names no account, still fails
custody so the step re-binds it.

The minvmd tests that take the process-global foreign-refusal slots
now run one at a time and start and end with every slot free, and the
warn-rate test bounds the burst at two windows' worth of lines, so a
slow runner that spreads the burst does not fail it.

* fix(minimal): offer the step over a socket another account left behind

A channel socket another account owns refuses the answerer step only
when a service is installed; with none, the step's install removes the
leftover socket before it loads the unit, so it is offered.

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(cherry picked from commit 746770d)

* fix(net): refuse out-of-zone names at a guest deny-subtree DNS listener (#2300)

* fix(net): refuse out-of-zone names at a guest deny-subtree DNS listener

A deny-all host-address box on a VM-backed guest resolved out-of-zone
names at the switch gateway: the interim NET-079 carve-out admitted the
gateway's port 53 whole, UDP and TCP, so a box that admits no destination
could still ask a resolver beyond the machine — and DNS over TCP could
retry past the verdict.

The guest's deny subtree now steers its UDP-53 lookups onto a loopback
listener on the answerer's port (NET-141 slice 2): deny_out admits the
listener beside the reply direction, the dstnat match carries no
destination address (the box asks the gateway like every other
host-address box; the steer is the carve-out), and the listener itself
answers REFUSED for every name outside the box zone — apex and a
non-lowercase zone suffix among them — NODATA for an in-zone non-A
question, and forwards the zone's A questions to the switch gateway
alone. DNS over TCP is neither steered nor admitted.

The guest daemon starts the listener after its classifier table loads;
the daemon's own lookups are untouched (cgroup-keyed match, deny path
only). The interim --gateway-resolver installer flag and every test,
digest and pin that spelled the interim carve-out follow the new shape.

Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>

* fix(net): bound and pin the guest DNS listener's forwards

Connect each forward socket to the gateway so a datagram from any other
sender is dropped, cap forwards in flight so a flood cannot exhaust the
daemon's descriptors, and drop the needless to_string calls clippy
rejects in the guest classifier integration test.

* fix(net): refuse questionless and non-QUERY messages at the guest DNS listener

decide() forwarded a message with no question, and an UPDATE or NOTIFY
whose zone section named an in-zone A, because every per-question check
passed vacuously. Answer the first REFUSED and the rest NOTIMP, so the
forward path carries only standard lookups.

Bind the listener directly so its log does not read as the box-zone
answerer, pin the integration test's boot-log check to the exact
example.com REFUSED line, and cite NET-079 (the deny-all case) rather
than NET-141 at the lines this change added.

---------

Co-authored-by: gominimal-aw-bot[bot] <281738952+gominimal-aw-bot[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Copilot <223556219+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
(cherry picked from commit 2c2f8cc)

* fix(net): spawn the guest DNS tasks with tokio::spawn on release/0.7.0

crate::traced landed on main after the release branch was cut, so the
cherry-pick of #2300 did not compile here.

* build: declare 0.7.3 for the release/0.7.0 backports

v0.7.2 is tagged at the branch head, so the version check requires the
next patch release.

* chore(deps): update pulldown-cmark to 0.13.5 for RUSTSEC-2026-0414

* fix(minimald): close the host classifier's mark, IPv6 and probe gaps (T105) (#2712)

* fix(minimald): close the classifier's mark, IPv6 and probe gaps

The install's conflict scan now treats a ct-mark write with no mask
as a user of every bit, names each rule with its table and chain,
and --ct-mark-mask refuses the ranges Tailscale and kube-proxy class
with. The table refuses non-loopback IPv6 from the boxes subtree and
counts that refusal in the same named counter as the deny chain.

The per-launch probe reads with a UDP datagram, so a launch no longer
waits the SYN retransmit a refused TCP connect pays. The reading at
daemon start keeps its TCP leg. Each probe logs its leg and duration.

* test(minimald): prove the classifier's mark, IPv6 and probe gaps live

Three root-lane proofs load the real table: the install refuses a
whole-mark ct writer and a mask in a well-known range, and an allow
box's IPv6 connection to a peer is refused and counted. The live probe
proof also checks the per-launch reading waits no retransmit.

* fix(minimald): pass shellcheck and pin the new mask refusals

The rerun hint's empty assignment tripped SC1007 in the shell lint
gate. The installer test pinned the old remedy text and escaped with
0x0000c000, the kube-proxy range the install now refuses: it now
pins the new remedy, escapes with 0x03000000, and pins the
well-known range refusal. The IPv6 refusal comment names the
condition that replaces it.

* fix(minimald): re-apply the recorded ct-mark mask and name min finalize-install

With no --ct-mark-mask, the install step adopts the mask a previous
install recorded under the tree. Mask refusals now name
min finalize-install --ct-mark-mask <mask>. The conflict scan joins the
nft and iptables-save hits with a newline.

* feat(minimal): add min finalize-install --ct-mark-mask and keep it at boot

The mask record lives in cgroupfs, so a reboot empties it. The classifier
step's block now passes the chosen or recorded mask to the one-time run
and to the boot unit's ExecStart, so the operator's bits survive a
reboot. A requested mask that differs from the loaded table's re-runs
the step.

* fix(minimald): refuse a CONNMARK --restore-mark that copies the whole mark

The install's ct-mark scan now treats --restore-mark with no --mask,
--ctmask or --nfmask, or an all-ones one, as a whole-mark writer, as it
does --save-mark. A restore with a narrow mask is still no conflict.

* fix(minimald): allow --restore-mark, bind probe datagrams first

A CONNMARK --restore-mark copies the connection mark into the packet
mark and never writes the connection mark, which is all the classifier
reads. This reverts 16d9160 and pins a restore with no mask as no
conflict.

hold_probe_listeners now binds its datagram endpoints before it spawns
any TCP drain thread, so a failed datagram bind returns before a
listener serves.

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* fix(minimald): adapt the host classifier gaps backport to release/0.7.0

The cherry-pick before this one keeps main's text for every line #2712
changes. Main's neighbouring code comes from the QUIC block work
(#2513, #2553, #2601, #2644), the box-name placement (#2722) and the
crate renames, none of which release/0.7.0 has. The conflicts were
resolved onto release's code without importing that work:

- classifier.rs: the four new unit tests are appended after release's
  last test, without the QUIC cohort tests main has above them. Their
  sandbox::classifier paths are sandbox2::classifier here.
- install-host-classifier.sh: the table gains the refused counter. The
  QUIC leaf set that main declares beside it is not on release, so it
  stays out. The --help range (2,87p) matches release's header too.
- finalize_install.rs: release has one classifier item, built by
  classifier_item_on_this_host, not main's classifier_items_on_this_host
  with the QUIC block helper item. That function takes --ct-mark-mask
  and fills recorded_mask and requested_mask itself. plan_for_this_host
  keeps release's names item placement and only passes the mask on.
- #2712's edits to finalize_install_names_the_quic_block_helper are
  dropped: release has no QUIC block helper item or test.
- install_test.sh: run_hc puts HC_PATH_PREFIX ahead of PATH, the line
  #2601 added on main. Without it the new --restore-mark case never
  reaches its stand-in iptables-save, and shellcheck flags the variable
  as unused.

The user-facing text is main's, unchanged.

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