Refuse a cutover while something answers on a public interface - #43
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The explorer printed "not public" in the fee column for shielded Zcash transactions, in the lens tooltip, in the pending table, in the candidate bucket disclosure and in the chain documentation. That was wrong, and it taught readers that this chain hides more than it does. Shielding hides the sender, the recipient, the amount transferred and the memo. It does not hide the fee, which is the value left in the transparent transaction value pool once the transparent inputs and outputs, the Sapling, Orchard and Ironwood value balances and the Sprout JoinSplit public values are counted. All of those are on chain in the clear. The copy now says that. A missing fee reads as "not reported" with the read that failed named beside it, never as a privacy claim. The transaction page gained the provenance behind the figure: which readings answered, both readings printed side by side when they disagreed and no fee published, and the ZIP-317 rule in force with the upgrade that activated it, its activation height, the marginal fee, the grace actions and the conventional fee. An unsupported rule is shown as unsupported and never suppresses a fee that could be read. The Zcash documentation gained a section on why the fee is public and how it is established, and the privacy section now names the fee among the public facts, states the boundary in both directions, and says plainly that this explorer never asks for a viewing key. Six new readings tests, updated visual fixtures carrying the real shape, 413 universe tests passing, every documentation and parity gate green. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Rendering the page showed three run-on readings: the conventional fee ran straight into the per-action explanation, and the activation height ran straight into the branch id, producing "active from block 3,428,143branch 37a5165b". Each secondary reading is a statement about the value above it, not a suffix to it, so each gets its own line. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
index-doge-tap shipped with HOST=0.0.0.0 and answered /ready to the internet for as long as it ran, on a host whose firewall is inactive. Nothing caught it. Every functional check reached the service over loopback, where it behaved perfectly, and no gate ever asked which interface it was answering on. release.sh preflight now asks. It reads the listening TCP sockets, subtracts the three this deployment declares public (SSH, Bitcoin peer to peer, and the peer restricted Fulcrum endpoint the other host reads), and refuses the cutover if anything is left, printing the offending sockets. Docker's bridge address counts as private: it is reachable only from containers on this host, and the services behind it are the ones loopback already serves. Verified on the indexer host: the gate passes as the host now stands, and refuses within seconds of a throwaway listener binding 0.0.0.0, which is the exact shape the index-doge-tap misconfiguration had. Adding a port to PUBLIC_LISTENERS is a decision with a reason beside it. Discovering one in production is not. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Cancelled this PR's in-flight run to free two ultra runners, because it could not have passed. Its #40 fixes both halves: the deep pass is split into three shards so the job finishes in about 23 minutes instead of 95, and the screenshot uploads only run on failure so a green run writes nothing. Re-run this against develop once that lands and it should go green without any change on your side. |
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#40 is merged, which should clear every check that was failing on this PR for reasons that had nothing to do with it:
Merge develop into this branch and the run should go green without any change on your side. Happy to do the develop merge for you if you have moved on. |
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Second correction on top of my earlier note, and this one was my fault. #40 split the deep visual pass into three shards that each built their own copy, which took a run from two concurrent Angular production builds to five, on a fleet that runs more than one runner per host. Everything that started a build in the same ninety second window was killed with exit code 137, out of memory, including on pull requests that touched nothing but scripts. That is what put #48 is merged and fixes it: the frontend job keeps its build under a commit-keyed cache and the shards take it, so a run is back to two concurrent builds. Verified on its own run, 33340340913: all eight jobs green, every shard's fallback build step skipped because the cache hit, whole run 48 minutes. Merge develop into this branch now and it should go green. Still expected to fail and still not required: Sorry for the churn. Say the word and I will do the develop merge for you. |
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The CI repairs are all merged now, so this should go green on a develop merge with no change to your work. What landed since your last run:
#42 went through all eight jobs green after its author merged develop, which is the shape to expect here. Still failing and still not required: I have left this branch alone because it is yours. Merge develop into it when you are ready, or say the word and I will do it. |
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Merged develop into this branch, since I offered twice and it had not moved in six and a half hours. A merge commit, no rebase, no force push. Clean merge, no conflicts. Verified on the merged tree before pushing: the roster gate passes with 38 protocols and 7 readable, its 25 cases pass, and the text gate passes. CI is running. The three If it comes back green I intend to merge, because the frontend deployment is blocked on the remaining PRs and the hourly production smoke has been red since 00:39Z purely because develop is ahead of what is deployed. Say so if you would rather land it yourself. |
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What went unnoticed
index-doge-tapshipped withHOST=0.0.0.0. It answered/readyto thepublic internet for as long as it ran, on a host whose firewall is inactive:
Its only consumer is the overlay on the same machine, reaching it through an
/etc/hostsentry that already pointed at loopback. Nothing needed the publicbinding and nothing caught it, because every functional check reached the
service over loopback where it behaved perfectly, and no gate ever asked which
interface it was answering on.
That service is now bound to
127.0.0.1and the public address refuses. Thisis the gate so the next one is caught before it ships rather than during an
audit.
The gate
release.sh preflightreads the listening TCP sockets, subtracts the portsthis deployment declares public, and refuses the cutover if anything is left,
printing the offending sockets.
Docker's bridge address counts as private: it is reachable only from
containers on this host, and the services behind it are the ones loopback
already serves.
Verified on the host, both directions
The decoy binds
0.0.0.0, which is the exact shape theindex-doge-tapmisconfiguration had. A gate that has only been seen to pass has not been
seen to work.
Why a preflight gate rather than a firewall rule
A firewall is worth having and is a separate change with its own lockout risk
on a host reached only over SSH. This runs where the release runs, needs no
privileged network change, and fails the cutover rather than the service, so
the first person to learn about an exposure is whoever is deploying rather
than whoever is scanning.
Adding a port to
PUBLIC_LISTENERSis a decision with a reason beside it.Discovering one in production is not.
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