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#103: on 4.8.0 with NetBird + WireGuard, VPN Only behaved inverted — listed domains went direct while everything else left the tunnel — and WireGuard often could not connect at all while the app was running.

Two defects:

1. VPN Only's catch-alls were the same two routes WireGuard itself owns. wg-quick and OpenVPN's redirect-gateway def1 capture traffic by installing 0.0.0.0/1 + 128.0.0.0/1 and leaving default on the physical link. VPN Only installed that exact pair via the local gateway — and since the helper converges an existing destination in place, this didn't add routes, it repointed the VPN's own routes away from its tunnel, and teardown then deleted them out from under it. Both programs fought over the same two kernel entries: traffic inversion, and wg-quick failing with EEXIST at connect.

Fix: VPN Only now installs four /2s (0.0.0.0/2, 64.0.0.0/2, 128.0.0.0/2, 192.0.0.0/2). By longest-prefix they outrank a /1-style tunnel and a default-replacing tunnel equally, without ever touching either's own routes; listed destinations still win with their /32s and CIDRs; removing the quartet hands traffic straight back to the tunnel. The old pair stays in the recognition set so teardown and the startup sweep still clean a strand left by ≤4.8.0 (the connected-startup path sweeps tagged-but-undesired routes). The custom-engine GP guard keeps its exact semantics — isCatchAll is decoupled from the cleanup set and stays byte-identical, so a user's explicit /2 rule remains allowed.

2. Selection never saw WireGuard as the traffic carrier. Ground truth reads route get default, which a /1-style tunnel never touches — so with NetBird connected first, hysteresis kept NetBird as "the VPN" and VPN Only pinned domain routes into the mesh interface. Selection ground truth now consults the kernel table for a non-RTF_PROTO1 /1 owner first (interface-bound /1s only; an AF_INET-gatewayed /1 stays unattributable and falls back to the previous behaviour).

Longest-prefix precedence (/2 over /1 over default) was verified live on macOS arm64 in both directions: the more-specific route wins while present, the cover takes over on removal. Both new checks were mutation-tested: reverting the quartet to the pair fails 8 tests, dropping the RTF_PROTO1 exclusion fails its test.

Deliberately untouched: the GlobalProtect VPN Only refusal (a corporate tunnel is refused for policy, not mechanics), and Bypass mode — its /32s already egress the local gateway and outrank a /1 tunnel. The reporter's Bypass-mode observation is DNS-view mismatch (the browser resolves different IPs than the app routed, and speed tests run against Ookla hosts that were never in the list); answered on the issue.

Fixes #103

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  • New Features

    • Improved VPN Only routing with four /2 catch-all routes.
    • Improved detection of active VPN traffic interfaces.
    • Added safer DNS refresh planning and route ownership handling.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Prevented inverse CIDR ranges from being overridden by local catch-all routes.
    • Prevented user-defined routes from being misidentified as stale VPN routes.
    • Preserved specific VPN routes and improved cleanup of legacy catch-all routes.
  • Tests

    • Expanded coverage for routing, tunnel detection, DNS refreshes, and route cleanup.

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The PR changes VPN Only catch-all routing from two /1 routes to four /2 routes. It adds inverse CIDR coverage checks, split /1 tunnel detection, source-aware cleanup, and routing tests.

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Catch-all route generation
Sources/VPNBypassCore/ClassicRouteCompiler.swift, Sources/VPNBypassCore/DNSRefreshPlanner.swift, Sources/VPNBypassCore/CommandRouter.swift
VPN Only compilation and inverse DNS planning use unclaimed /2 catch-all routes. Exact or broader inverse CIDRs retain VPN ownership. Related comments describe generalized bypass-all behavior.
Tunnel ownership and cleanup
Sources/VPNBypassCore/RouteCompiler.swift, Sources/VPNBypassCore/RouteKernel.swift, Sources/VPNBypassCore/RouteManager.swift
Cleanup recognizes both catch-all generations without treating /2 routes as GlobalProtect catch-alls. Traffic-carrier detection checks split /1 tunnel owners before default-route fallback. Stale-route classification checks the catch-all source.
Routing behavior validation
Tests/VPNBypassTests/*, Sources/VPNBypassCore/VPNBypassApp.swift
Tests cover route installation, ordering, inverse DNS expectations, source-aware cleanup, IPv4 coverage, and /1 tunnel ownership. Documentation comments use generalized bypass-all terminology.

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

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to fac94

The PR changes VPN Only to use four more-specific catch-all routes and recognize WireGuard-style /1 tunnels, preventing route hijacking and traffic inversion. It is mergeable with owner follow-up to update the DNS failure test comment, which still documents the old two-route behavior.

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Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The changes address issue [#103] by replacing conflicting /1 VPN Only routes with four /2 routes, preserving Bypass behavior, and detecting interface-bound /1 tunnel owners so WireGuard-style tunnels …
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The changes address issue [#103] by replacing conflicting /1 VPN Only routes with four /2 routes, preserving Bypass behavior, and detecting interface-bound /1 tunnel owners so WireGuard-style tunnels remain usable. The tests cover route precedence, cleanup, and tunnel attribution.

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The code and test changes remain within scope for [#103]. They cover route compilation, DNS refresh planning, traffic-carrier detection, legacy cleanup, documentation, and regression tests. No unrelated functional changes are present.

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In `@Sources/VPNBypassCore/ClassicRouteCompiler.swift`:
- Line 105: Update the catch-all handling in ClassicRouteCompiler so an exact
inverse CIDR such as 0.0.0.0/2 is not suppressed by seenDestinations: skip the
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catch-all destination, rather than checking only exact matches via
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Update the stale catch-all count in the comment.

Line 226 still says “the two catch-alls,” but this test now expects four /2 catch-alls at Lines 243-247. Change the comment to “the four /2 catch-alls” or “the bypass-all catch-alls.”

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The outside-diff note on DNSRefreshPlannerTests.swift:226 was right — the doc comment still said "the two catch-alls" while the assertion below it expects four /2 quarters. Fixed in fac9492.

I swept the rest of the branch for the same drift. Every other "pair"/"two catch-alls" mention is either describing WireGuard's own /1 pair (which really is a pair), a fixture that genuinely seeds two, or deliberate history explaining why VPN Only no longer uses 0.0.0.0/1 + 128.0.0.0/1. The surviving /1 handling in catchAllDestinations is the migration path for routes builds up to 4.8.0 left behind — kept on purpose.

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[Bug]: Added domains behave opposite of intended in Bypass / VPN Only modes

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