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watcher tests: fewer queries per domain check, longer live attempts (closes #214)
ResolveIPAddresses, which a domain check runs for each nameserver, asked
every nameserver of the name's zone for all eight record types and read
only A, AAAA and CNAME. It now asks for those three, so a domain check
of example.com sends about a third fewer queries.

The per-attempt deadline in livednstest goes from 8 to 18 seconds. It
was sized for one lookup, while a watcher check sends over a hundred
queries in a row and on the CI runner ran past 8 seconds. Three attempts
still end under the 60-second cap.

A nameserver that answers none of the three queries now counts as not
answering even if it would have answered another type; the watcher keeps
the previous addresses either way.

Model: opus-5-5
2026-10-02 02:07:00 +00:00

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# Workflow
- branch (from `next`)
- do the work in Next Step
- move Next Step to the top of Completed Steps
- move the top item of Future Steps into Next Step
- commit (`TODO.md` changes in the same commit as the work)
- push
- open a PR against `next`
# Status
pre-1.0. No git tags. Work lands on `next` by PR. Open work for 1.0 is tracked
on the 1.0 milestone: https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/dnswatcher/milestone/7
# Next Step
trial run of the finished image: https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/dnswatcher/issues/149
# Completed Steps
- 2026-10-02: a nameserver's addresses are looked up asking only for A, AAAA and
CNAME records, and a live test attempt may take 18s, not 8s (closes #214).
- 2026-10-02: the resolver tries root servers, and every other server list it
walks, in a random order each time, not always from the top (closes #138).
- 2026-10-02: a name listed more than once in `DNSWATCHER_TARGETS`, in any
letter case or with a trailing dot, is watched once (closes #207).
- 2026-10-01: README checked against the code and corrected: metrics, CORS,
notification retries, CNAMEs, state file fields, Design tree (closes #108).
- 2026-10-01: a certificate within the expiry warning period is warned about on
every TLS check, where some checks used to skip it at random (closes #204).
- 2026-10-01: a domain's NS set is its delegation from the parent zone's
servers, not whichever of its own servers answered first (closes #200).
- 2026-10-01: README has Getting Started, Rationale and TODO sections, and its
Architecture section is now Design, in the order policy sets (closes #173).
- 2026-10-01: a zone's server that answers SERVFAIL or a referral leading no
closer is passed over for the next, as one that times out is (closes #197).
- 2026-10-01: when none of a configured name's nameservers answered, the port
state saved for its addresses is kept, not removed (closes #193).
- 2026-10-01: `ResolveIPAddresses` returns an error, not no addresses, when no
nameserver of the name's zone answered (closes #190).
- 2026-10-01: `make fmt` and `make fmt-check` cover Markdown with prettier, run
in Docker at the version pinned by `yarn.lock` (closes #119).
- 2026-10-01: `make fmt-check` fails on a file `goimports` would change; both
format scripts run `goimports` at its pinned commit, not from `PATH` (#119).
- 2026-10-01: a hostname is queried at the servers of the zone it is in, found
by following delegations for the name, not its last two labels (closes #189).
- 2026-10-01: each nameserver's addresses are saved with its domain, and a
change while it stays in the delegation is notified (closes #105).
- 2026-10-01: the watcher saves state when it stops, and shutdown waits for that
save, so it no longer relies on the state's own stop hook (closes #114).
- 2026-10-01: `DNSWATCHER_SENTRY_DSN` reports panics in HTTP handlers to Sentry,
and a DSN Sentry cannot parse stops startup (closes #107).
- 2026-10-01: a port or TLS check that shutdown cuts short saves nothing and
sends no notification, as a cut-short DNS lookup already did (closes #185).
- 2026-10-01: the client address from `X-Forwarded-For` is the last entry that
is not a trusted proxy, not the first, which the client sets (closes #181).
- 2026-10-01: a nameserver that does not answer is saved as `error` with the
reason, and NS failure and NS recovery are notified (closes #104).
- 2026-10-01: a `DNSWATCHER_DNS_INTERVAL` or `DNSWATCHER_TLS_INTERVAL` that is
not a positive duration stops startup; empty means the default (closes #177).
- 2026-10-01: `/metrics` allows each client address 30 requests a minute,
counted before Basic Auth, and answers 429 beyond that (closes #101).
- 2026-10-01: the image built by `make docker` reports the `git describe`
version, not `dev`, and the startup log now shows it (closes #109).
- 2026-10-01: two notify shutdown tests always release the delivery they hold,
so a drain that returns early fails them instead of hanging (closes #176).
- 2026-10-01: `script/install-precommit` asks git for the repository's git
directory, so `make hooks` also works where `.git` is a file (closes #129).
- 2026-10-01: `TODO.md` brought up to date: open issues listed by URL, every
Completed Steps entry cut to at most two lines (closes #146).
- 2026-10-01: wildcard CORS now applies only to the public routes, not to
`/metrics`, and allows only the methods they serve (closes #100).
- 2026-10-01: `internal/state` and `internal/watcher` no longer export test-only
constructors: two moved to `export_test.go`, one is deleted (closes #111).
- 2026-10-01: notify shutdown tests use one timing constant per meaning, name
the bound they check, and require the drain's debug line (closes #116).
- 2026-09-29: the entrypoint chowns the data directory to `dnswatcher` and runs
dnswatcher as that user, so a host bind mount needs no chown (closes #166).
- 2026-09-29: the live-DNS test package is renamed `internal/livednstest`;
`make lint` fails when program code imports it (closes #164).
- 2026-09-29: `.golangci.yml` re-fetched from `sneak/prompts`, with
`gomodguard_v2` and the org `depguard` `test-support` rule (closes #123).
- 2026-09-29: watcher and resolver tests that look something up in DNS use the
real resolver against live DNS servers (closes #159).
- 2026-09-28: the inconsistency alert is sent once, when two nameservers start
to disagree; every pair of nameservers is compared (closes #158).
- 2026-09-28: DNS names in record values (CNAME, MX, SRV and NS targets) are
lower-cased, so letter case alone is not a change (closes #157).
- 2026-09-28: lint and tests run on every build: `script/cibuild` and
`script/docker` pass `--no-cache-filter=lint,builder` (closes #115).
- 2026-09-28: the server timeout test drives `Run` and checks the timeouts on
the `http.Server` it serves (closes #120).
- 2026-09-28: upaas deploy readiness: the image runs as user `dnswatcher` with a
`HEALTHCHECK`; README "Running under upaas" (closes #147).
- 2026-09-21: added behavioural tests for `internal/globals`,
`internal/healthcheck`, and `internal/logger` (closes #110).
- 2026-09-21: `go mod tidy` dropped the redundant `golang.org/x/sync`
`// indirect` line so `script/bootstrap` leaves a clean tree (#132)
- 2026-08-10: comment-only corrections to `script/bootstrap`, `script/cibuild`
and `Dockerfile.lint`; no behaviour changed.
- 2026-08-10: MIT `LICENSE` added at the repository root; the README's first
line and License section name the licence.
- 2026-08-10: policy scaffold present: `REPO_POLICIES.md`, `.editorconfig`,
`.dockerignore`, CI workflow, `make fmt-check`, `make docker`, `make hooks`.
- 2026-08-10: Go's test cache disabled in `script/test` (`-count=1`), so every
run queries live DNS; a failed run is rerun with `-v`.
- 2026-08-10: live-DNS tests made robust rather than gated (#93): a limit on
concurrent lookups, retries, and a quorum across nameservers.
- 2026-08-10: all linting moved into Docker: `script/lint` builds
`Dockerfile.lint`, and the root `Dockerfile` has its own lint stage.
- 2026-08-09: in-flight notification deliveries are drained at shutdown, bounded
by the shutdown deadline (#106).
- 2026-08-09: `http.Server` sets all four socket timeouts; `WriteTimeout` stays
above the 60s handler timeout (#99).
- 2026-08-09: `SecurityHeaders()` middleware sets HSTS, CSP and the other
security headers `REPO_POLICIES.md` requires on every response.
- 2026-08-07: golangci-lint bumped to v2.12.2 and `.golangci.yml` set to the org
config; fixed the resulting `goconst`, `dupl` and `lll` findings.
- 2026-07-07 Adopted scripts-to-rule-them-all: `script/` entrypoints, Makefile
shims, README Entrypoints section
- 2026-02-20: iterative DNS resolver implemented
- 2026-02-20: CI actions and go install refs pinned to commit SHAs; Gitea
Actions workflow added
- 2026-02-20: watcher monitoring orchestrator merged to main (#8)
- 2026-02-20: DOMAINS/HOSTNAMES unified into single TARGETS config (#11)
- 2026-02-19: TCP port connectivity checker, made concurrent with port
validation; gosec G704 SSRF findings fixed without suppression
- 2026-02-19: TLS certificate inspector with no-peer-certificates error path and
IP SANs
- 2026-02-19: gosec SSRF and formatting fixes on main
- 2026-02-19: initial scaffold with per-nameserver DNS monitoring model
# Future Steps
- 1.0 readiness: run it with a real config and read the logs:
https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/dnswatcher/issues/66
- review toward 1.0: https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/dnswatcher/issues/144