Bring README and TODO.md up to date with the code (closes #72)
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README "HTTP Endpoints" now lists every route the server registers with
what it answers, errors included: / is a home page and /ip/{addr} answers
JSON, neither redirects; /ip/ looks up the caller; the IP endpoints take
host names and comma-separated lists; 400, 404 and 504 are described, and
the health check's envelope. "Database Schema" matches schema.sql, and
other sentences the code contradicted are corrected. TODO.md gets a dated
line for each issue landed since 2026-10-03, with Status and Next Step
current.

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# Status
pre-1.0. No git tags. The linter and the tests are phases of the Docker build,
and the Gitea workflow runs `script/cibuild` (the format check of the Go code
and the markdown, both phases, then the image) on every push. The image sets
memory ceilings for a 5 GiB container (README "Memory") and the README says how
to run it under upaas (README "Running under upaas"). A 35-hour run of `3898daa`
on the live feed peaked at about 1 GiB, without a container memory limit.
pre-1.0. No git tags. `main` last took `next` on 2026-10-06, through
https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/routewatch/pulls/6. The linter and the tests are
phases of the Docker build, and the Gitea workflow runs `script/cibuild` (the
format check of the Go code and the markdown, both phases, then the image) on
every push. The image sets memory ceilings for a 5 GiB container (README
"Memory") and the README says how to run it under upaas (README "Running under
upaas"). A 25-hour run of `a9b6860` on the live feed peaked at about 0.6 GiB
(https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/routewatch/issues/3). A run of `825afa2` on the live
feed found the prefix handler dropping about a quarter of its updates because
its route writes were slower than the feed
(https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/routewatch/issues/96); the cheaper writes since then
are measured by a benchmark, not yet on the live feed.
# Next Step
`next` waits for sneak to merge it to `main` through
https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/routewatch/pulls/6. After that, setting routewatch up
under upaas on fsn1app1 and deploying it are his
(https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/routewatch/issues/31), and so is the run under a real
5 GiB limit (https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/routewatch/issues/3).
Run `next` on the live feed, as README "Running under upaas" describes, for the
final check https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/routewatch/issues/96 names: whether the
prefix handler still drops updates after the first hour. If it does, a new issue
follows with the numbers. Then an audit of the code at the commit that run
tested.
# Completed Steps
- 2026-10-19: README "HTTP Endpoints" lists every route with what it answers,
"Database Schema" matches `schema.sql`, and the rest of the README matches the
code; this file brought up to date (closes #72)
- 2026-10-19: route writes are cheaper: the live route and prefix tables lose
their random UUID keys and the prefix tables their duplicate index, a route
update sets only the columns that change, and every write goes through one
connection with a page cache of 1 GiB (README "Memory"). A benchmark writes
the prefix handler's largest batch faster than the feed sends it (closes #96)
- 2026-10-19: the WAL checkpoint, the incremental vacuum and ANALYZE take the
database lock every batch write holds, so a vacuum no longer fails with
"database is locked" and an ANALYZE no longer makes a batch write lose its
updates; ANALYZE runs as `PRAGMA optimize` with an analysis limit (closes #94)
- 2026-10-19: shutdown stops the streamer first, and each handler writes
everything left on its queue before it stops, so the updates waiting there are
no longer lost (closes #69)
- 2026-10-19: a path that ends in an AS set of several members has origin AS 0,
no known origin, instead of the set's last member, and the set adds no
peerings; the pages show such a route as having no known origin (closes #75)
- 2026-10-19: `bgp_peer_count` drops to 0 when the last peer goes down (closes
#92)
- 2026-10-19: `bgp_peer_count` counts every peer the feed has heard from, not
only those whose session opened since startup, and drops a peer whose session
goes down (closes #74)
- 2026-10-19: the shared files are re-vendored from `sneak/prompts` at
`0653579`: golangci-lint v2.14.0 and its configuration, lint and test as
`Dockerfile` phases that keep Go's and golangci-lint's caches, markdown
formatted with prettier, agent guidance in `AGENTS.md`; the code is fixed for
what the new linter configuration finds (closes #52)
- 2026-10-19: the streamer reads feed lines up to 1 MiB, so a line over 64 KiB
no longer ends the connection (closes #76)
- 2026-10-19: a peer's live routes are removed when its BGP session goes down;
`STATE` messages are never dropped for backpressure, and one that finds its
queue full waits for room ahead of the handler's other messages (closes #56)
- 2026-10-19: the prefix-length pages pick their sample with a bounded number of
index lookups instead of reading every route of that length, and list each
prefix once (closes #66)
- 2026-10-19: a request past its time limit answers 504 instead of 408, and
`/api/v1/stats` answers 504 instead of 500 when its read runs out of time
(closes #70)
- 2026-10-19: the AS, peer and prefix handlers write each batch outside the lock
their message handling needs, so messages keep coming off their queues during
a write; meanwhile the next batch grows to at most ten batch sizes (closes
#65)
- 2026-10-19: a live route is identified by prefix and peer, so an announcement
with a new origin AS replaces the peer's route and a withdrawal removes it
whatever its origin AS (closes #55)
- 2026-10-14: the streamer reconnects when RIS Live ends the stream or sends
nothing for 60 seconds, and the health check reports the feed disconnected
meanwhile (closes #53)
- 2026-10-14: the prefix page takes the names of the origin ASes from the prefix
query instead of reading every route of each origin AS (closes #67)
- 2026-10-14: the daemon exits with status 1 when its web server cannot listen
on its port, instead of running on without it (closes #73)
- 2026-10-14: the prefix pages parse the prefix before looking it up: one that
does not parse answers 400, and any valid way of writing a prefix finds its
routes (closes #71)
- 2026-10-14: the IP lookup ignores routes shorter than /8 for IPv4 and /16 for
IPv6, so a default route is no longer named as an address's owner (closes #57)
- 2026-10-14: a prefix batch keeps each peer's last update for a prefix, instead
of one update per prefix across all peers (closes #54)
- 2026-10-14: `reconnect_count` in `/api/v1/stats` counts every reconnect
(closes #68)
- 2026-10-03: `/api/v1/stats` serves the prefix distribution from memory, seeded
at startup and adjusted on every live-route write, so a request no longer
reads every live route (closes #30)
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# Future Steps
- Production memory under 5 GiB: whether to test under a real 5 GiB container
limit on fsn1app1 is open for sneak
(https://git.eeqj.de/sneak/routewatch/issues/3)
None open.