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feat: fail fast when no monitoring targets configured (#75)
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## Summary

When `DNSWATCHER_TARGETS` is empty (the default), dnswatcher previously started successfully and ran indefinitely monitoring nothing. This is a common misconfiguration — forgetting to set the variable or making a typo in its name — and gave no indication anything was wrong.

## Changes

- Added `ErrNoTargets` sentinel error in `internal/config/config.go`
- Extracted `parseAndValidateTargets()` helper to validate that at least one domain or hostname is configured after target classification
- If no targets are configured, dnswatcher now exits with a clear error: `"no monitoring targets configured: set DNSWATCHER_TARGETS environment variable"`
- Updated README.md to document that `DNSWATCHER_TARGETS` is required and dnswatcher will refuse to start without it

## How it works

The validation runs during config construction (via uber/fx), before the watcher or any other component starts. If `DNSWATCHER_TARGETS` is empty or contains only whitespace/empty entries, `buildConfig()` returns `ErrNoTargets`, which causes fx to fail startup with a clear error message.

This is fail-fast behavior: a monitoring daemon with nothing to monitor is a misconfiguration and should not silently run.

Closes #69

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@@ -210,6 +210,12 @@ the following precedence (highest to lowest):
| `DNSWATCHER_METRICS_USERNAME` | Basic auth username for /metrics | `""` |
| `DNSWATCHER_METRICS_PASSWORD` | Basic auth password for /metrics | `""` |
**`DNSWATCHER_TARGETS` is required.** dnswatcher will refuse to start if no
monitoring targets are configured. A monitoring daemon with nothing to monitor
is a misconfiguration, so dnswatcher fails fast with a clear error message
rather than running silently. Set `DNSWATCHER_TARGETS` to a comma-separated
list of DNS names before starting.
### Example `.env`
```sh