feat: route consensus p2p through circuit-relay-v2 (relay-fronted validators) - #33
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SummaryThis is a well-engineered, substantial feature. The transport ordering decision ( Security[S1] No startup warning that rate limiting is disabled
// Consider adding before the event loop:
tracing::warn!(
"rate limiting disabled — this relay is configured for testnet use only; \
do not deploy on a public network without re-enabling limiters"
);[S2] Fixed relay seeds in
Correctness[C1]
A retry counter per entry ( [C2] Relay exemption races first connections in
The synchronous exemption already inserted by [C3]
[C4]
if retries > 10 && peers > 0 {
error!(..., "failed to reach peer {bls_pubkey}, giving up");
return;
}This is unchanged pre-existing behavior, but in relay mode a node may give up dialing a specific committee member if it is connected to other peers while that member's relay hasn't come up yet. The Performance[P1] DNS resolution on every heartbeat
[P2]
fn redial_missing_committee(&mut self) {
if !self.is_peer_validator(&self.local_peer_id) || self.known_peers.is_empty() {
return;
}
// ... existing logic
}[P3]
Design / Architecture[D1] The design notes are valuable (especially the option B proposal for immediate re-dial on disconnect), but a file named
[D2] Worker relay config mirrors primary at keygen with no independent overrides
[D3]
Nits[N1]
const EFFECTIVELY_UNLIMITED_SECS: u64 = u32::MAX as u64;would clarify intent and make the circuit duration limit's [N2] Relay client events are trace-only with no metric
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SummaryThis is a solid, production-minded PoC. The transport ordering rationale ( New FindingsSecurity[S1]
[S2]
Correctness[C1]
self.relay_reservations.insert(addr, Some(id));However the re-reservation is tentative — libp2p emits [C2]
PeerEvent::RedialCommittee(bls_key) => {
let (reply, _outcome) = oneshot::channel();
self.process_command(crate::types::NetworkCommand::DialBls { bls_key, reply })?;
}
self.task_spawner.spawn_task("redial-committee", async move {
if let Err(e) = outcome.await {
trace!(target: "peer-manager", ?bls_key, ?e, "redial-committee outcome");
}
});[C3]
resolved.retain(
|c| matches!(c.iter().last(), Some(Protocol::P2p(id)) if id == peer_id),
);A circuit multiaddr of the form [C4]
let any_reservation_active = self.relay_reservations.values().any(Option::is_some);
if matches!(path, ConnectionPath::DirectNonRelay { .. }) && any_reservation_active {
warn!(...);
}Performance[P1]
self.connected_peers.retain(|peer| *peer != peer_id);
Design / Architecture[D1]
info!(target: "network", ?addr, "re-attempting relay reservation");This fires every 15 seconds for every missing relay reservation. During a relay outage (the expected "relay is down, keep retrying" scenario), this generates an [D2]
let ep_of = |peer: &PeerId, m: &HashMap<PeerId, String>| {
m.get(peer).cloned().unwrap_or_else(|| "?".to_string())
};This is a free function closure passed the map explicitly. It works correctly as written. But notably it is called as [D3]
Nits[N1]
[N2]
[N3]
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SummaryThis is the fifth review pass. Three prior automated reviews have covered the major findings thoroughly. This pass reads each changed file directly and adds new observations while confirming the most actionable items from prior reviews. New FindingsCorrectness[C1]
if let Some((addr, active)) =
self.relay_reservations.iter_mut().find(|(_, active)| **active == Some(listener_id))This is O(n) in the number of relay reservations. More critically, the reverse mapping ( [C2]
self.relay_reservations.insert(multiaddr, res.as_ref().ok().copied());If [C3]
resolved.retain(
|c| matches!(c.iter().last(), Some(Protocol::P2p(id)) if id == peer_id),
);A direct QUIC address Minor / Nits[N1]
[N2]
let mut relay_retry = tokio::time::interval(Duration::from_secs(15));
Confirmation of Top Prior FindingsThe following findings from prior reviews are confirmed correct — none have been addressed yet. In priority order for pre-merge work:
The C2 Positive Highlights
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Claude finished @procdump's task in 4m 13s —— View job PR Review: feat: route consensus p2p through circuit-relay-v2
SummaryFive prior automated reviews covered the Rust changes exhaustively. This sixth pass focuses on the five new commits pushed since the last review — all test-network shell scripts — and adds observations on two subtle Rust points the earlier passes did not cover. None of the previously-flagged open items have been addressed in these commits. New Findings — Test-Network ScriptsSecurity[S1]
ADMIN_PRIVATE_KEY="${ADMIN_PRIVATE_KEY:-0xac0974bec39a17e36ba4a6b4d238ff944bacb478cbed5efcae784d7bf4f2ff80}"This is the publicly-known anvil account #0 key. The comment documents it correctly as a local testnet default, but no runtime guard prevents it from being used against a non-dev network. Prior reviews flagged [S2] Line 52: OPERATOR_KEY="${OPERATOR_KEY:-0x$(printf '%064x' $((1000 + NODE_NUM)))}"For Correctness[C1] Line 111: cast send "$REGISTRY_CONTRACT_ADDRESS" "allowlistValidator(address)" "$ADDRESS" \
--private-key "$ADMIN_PRIVATE_KEY" --rpc-url "$RPC_URL" || echo " (allowlist may already be set; continuing)"
[C2] If step 4 (approve) succeeds but step 5 (stake) reverts, the operator has approved the registry to spend its RLS but is not staked. On re-run, step 2 mints again (doubling the operator's RLS balance) before step 4 approves and step 5 stakes. The double-mint is harmless on a testnet with a MINTER_ROLE admin, but the script has no pre-check for "is this node already staked?" before entering the 6-step flow. Documenting that re-running after partial failure requires first manually revoking the approval (or running with [C3] Line 117: RELAY_PEER=$(grep -ao '12D3KooW[A-Za-z0-9]*' "$RELAY_LOG" 2>/dev/null | head -1 || true)
RELAY_PEER=$(grep -ao '12D3KooW[A-Za-z0-9]\{40,\}' "$RELAY_LOG" 2>/dev/null | head -1 || true)would reject prefix-only matches (libp2p peer IDs are ≥46 base58 chars after [C4] Lines 83-85: byte=$(printf '%02x' "$NODE_NUM")
for ((c = 0; c < 32; c++)); do SEED="${SEED}${byte}"; done
Nit[N1] MULTI_LISTEN direct listeners are not reflected in In commit
This is intentional for the test topology, but a startup log line noting "MULTI_LISTEN: opening direct listener on port X in addition to relay reservation" would make the topology observable without reading the script. Confirmation: Prior Open FindingsThe five new commits touch only test-network shell scripts; the Rust source is unchanged. All findings from prior reviews remain open:
C2 and C4 remain the easiest one-liner fixes and should be folded in before merge. C1 (HashMap bound) and C3 (log spam) are the highest-priority for production readiness. Positive Highlights (new commits)
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SummaryThis seventh pass reviews the single new commit pushed since review 6: New Commit:
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| # | Finding | File | One-liner? |
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| S1 | Rate limiters zeroed with no startup warn! |
bin/rayls-relay/src/main.rs:159–160 |
Yes — add tracing::warn! before the event loop |
| S2 | Fixed seeds in RELAY_KEYS.md, no production guard on keypair_from_seed_env |
main.rs:193–201 |
No |
| C1 | relay_reservations HashMap grows without bound, stale entries retried forever |
runtime.rs:83–100 |
No — needs retry counter |
| C2 | ConnectionEstablished direct-conn warn! fires during pending-reservation window |
runtime.rs:169–170 |
Yes — !self.relay_reservations.is_empty() → self.relay_reservations.values().any(Option::is_some) |
| C3 | retry_relay_reservations logs info! on every 15s retry — log spam during outages |
runtime.rs:93 |
Yes — first attempt info!, subsequent debug! |
| C4 | DNS failure in resolve_relay_circuits logged to "network-kad" target |
command.rs:445 |
Yes — change target to "network" |
| D1 | TODO-CRv2-NETWORKING.md committed to repo root |
/TODO-CRv2-NETWORKING.md |
No — convert to issue |
C2, C3, and C4 are all genuine one-liners. They should be the easiest wins before merge.
Positive Highlights (new commit)
- The startup gotcha ("genesis is created only once — wipe
local-validators/to regenerate") is exactly the right thing to document; it caused real confusion during development and will save future contributors significant debugging time. - The
connections_by_pathclarification ("cumulative counter, not a live count") prevents a common observability misread. - The readiness gate explanation and troubleshooting table for
OwnableUnauthorizedAccount/ERC20InsufficientBalancecorrectly attribute the root cause (RLS proxy not live yet, wrong admin key) rather than just describing the symptom.
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Claude finished @procdump's task in 3m 35s —— View job PR Review: feat: route consensus p2p through circuit-relay-v2
SummarySeven prior automated reviews covered this PR exhaustively. This eighth pass implements the four easy fixes that were flagged across multiple reviews and remained open, and confirms that two other previously-flagged issues (the broken link in Fixes Implemented (3 files, 8 lines changed)The changes are committed locally as S1 — -use tracing::info;
+use tracing::{info, warn};
let relay_cfg = relay_config()?;
+warn!(
+ "rate limiting disabled — this relay is configured for testnet use only; \
+ do not deploy on a public network without re-enabling reservation/circuit limiters"
+);
let mut swarm = libp2p::SwarmBuilder::with_existing_identity(key)Justification: rate limiters are cleared unconditionally in C2 — - && !self.relay_reservations.is_empty()
+ && self.relay_reservations.values().any(Option::is_some)Justification: C3 — - info!(target: "network", ?addr, "re-attempting relay reservation");
+ debug!(target: "network", ?addr, "re-attempting relay reservation");Justification: C4 — - warn!(target: "network-kad", %name, ?e, "failed to resolve /dnsaddr for relay discovery");
+ warn!(target: "network", %name, ?e, "failed to resolve /dnsaddr for relay discovery");Justification: this is DNS/relay discovery code, not kademlia. Operators filtering with Still Open (from prior reviews)
None of the remaining items block the PoC topology described in the PR. S2 and C1 should be tracked before production promotion. Confirmed Closed
Positive HighlightsThe overall architecture is sound. Specifically worth preserving as patterns:
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Fixes Applied Locally (Push Blocked — Apply Manually)Four fixes from prior reviews were prepared as commit S1 — relay startup warning ( -use tracing::info;
+use tracing::{info, warn};
let relay_cfg = relay_config()?;
+warn!(
+ "rate limiting disabled — this relay is configured for testnet use only; \
+ do not deploy on a public network without re-enabling reservation/circuit limiters"
+);
let mut swarm = libp2p::SwarmBuilder::with_existing_identity(key)C2 — suppress false-positive direct-conn warn during pending-reservation window ( - && !self.relay_reservations.is_empty()
+ && self.relay_reservations.values().any(Option::is_some)C3 — downgrade periodic relay-retry log to avoid flood during outages ( - info!(target: "network", ?addr, "re-attempting relay reservation");
+ debug!(target: "network", ?addr, "re-attempting relay reservation");C4 — fix log target for DNS relay-resolution failures ( - warn!(target: "network-kad", %name, ?e, "failed to resolve /dnsaddr for relay discovery");
+ warn!(target: "network", %name, ?e, "failed to resolve /dnsaddr for relay discovery");New Commit:
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| S1 | Relay startup: no warn! that rate limiting is disabled |
bin/rayls-relay/src/main.rs |
Fixed locally (apply diff above) |
| C2 | ConnectionEstablished warn fires during pending-reservation window |
runtime.rs:169–170 |
Fixed locally (apply diff above) |
| C3 | retry_relay_reservations logs info! every 15s during outages |
runtime.rs:93 |
Fixed locally (apply diff above) |
| C4 | DNS fail in resolve_relay_circuits logged to "network-kad" target |
command.rs:445 |
Fixed locally (apply diff above) |
| S2 | Fixed seeds in RELAY_KEYS.md, no production guard in keypair_from_seed_env |
main.rs:193–201 |
Open |
| C1 | relay_reservations HashMap grows without bound; stale entries retried forever |
runtime.rs:83–100 |
Open |
| D1 | TODO-CRv2-NETWORKING.md committed to repo root |
/TODO-CRv2-NETWORKING.md |
Open |
| D2 | DynamicCommitteeSize testnet/mainnet activation blocks not chosen yet |
chainspec.rs |
Open (new) |
Positive Highlights (new commit)
- The two-bug isolation (silent-committee-member vs. committee-eviction-on-join) is accurate: both cause a stall but through different mechanisms, and the commit correctly fixes them independently.
- The REVISIT block in
decide_node_modeis exactly the right way to land a behavior change that has open design questions — the fix is deployed, the caveats are documented at the call site, and reviewers are explicitly directed. - The hardfork activation being
Neveron testnet/mainnet is the prudent default: local/devnet exercises the new behavior end-to-end without risking live networks until the activation block is chosen. DynamicCommitteeSizecorrectly skipped inapply_genesis_account_changes(no pre-loaded accounts needed, correctcontinue).
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| NodeMode::CvvActive => (NodeMode::CvvActive, "prior-mode-active"), | ||
| NodeMode::CvvInactive => (NodeMode::CvvInactive, "prior-mode-inactive"), | ||
| NodeMode::Observer => (NodeMode::Observer, "prior-mode-observer"), |
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This switch bothers me.
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Do we have to gate this behind the fork as well?
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Fixes Prepared (commit
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| S2 | Fixed test seeds in RELAY_KEYS.md, no production guard in keypair_from_seed_env |
main.rs |
Medium |
| C1 | relay_reservations HashMap grows without bound; stale entries retried forever |
runtime.rs:83–100 |
Medium |
| D1 | TODO-CRv2-NETWORKING.md committed to repo root |
/TODO-CRv2-NETWORKING.md |
Low — convert to GH issue |
| script-C3 | add-relay-node.sh peer-id regex 12D3KooW[A-Za-z0-9]* matches partial log writes |
add-relay-node.sh:117 |
Low |
S2 and C1 are the only items worth addressing before a production promotion.
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| | RaylsHardFork::EmptyOutputBlock => continue, | ||
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| | RaylsHardFork::DynamicCommitteeSize => continue, |
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is the committee fix ok to be per block as it should flip at epoch boundary
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Responding to @procdump's inline review questions
No explicit fork gate is required — the protection is implicit but real. Without That said, adding an explicit guard provides defense-in-depth and makes the intent self-documenting. If you want belt-and-suspenders: // Only reachable once DynamicCommitteeSize activates (prior to that,
// newly-staked validators are evicted by shuffle_new_committee, so
// in_committee stays false and this arm is unreachable).
NodeMode::Observer if consensus_config.is_dynamic_committee_size_active() =>
(NodeMode::CvvInactive, "joined-committee"),
NodeMode::Observer => (NodeMode::Observer, "prior-mode-observer"),The current code is correct without this; the gate is a readability/safety choice rather than a correctness requirement.
Yes, the classification is correct. New Commits
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| S1 | Relay startup: no warn! that rate limiting is disabled |
bin/rayls-relay/src/main.rs:159–160 |
Open — one-liner |
| C2 | ConnectionEstablished warn fires during pending-reservation window |
runtime.rs:169 |
Open — one-liner: any(Option::is_some) |
| C3 | retry_relay_reservations logs info! every 15s during outages |
runtime.rs:93 |
Open — one-liner: info! → debug! |
| C4 | DNS failure in resolve_relay_circuits logged to "network-kad" target |
command.rs:445 |
Open — one-liner |
| S2 | Fixed test seeds in RELAY_KEYS.md, no production guard |
main.rs:193–201 |
Open |
| C1 | relay_reservations HashMap grows without bound |
runtime.rs:83–100 |
Open |
| D1 | TODO-CRv2-NETWORKING.md committed to repo root |
/TODO-CRv2-NETWORKING.md |
Open |
S1, C2, C3, C4 are all genuine one-liners and should be the easiest wins before merge. S2 and C1 are the only items worth addressing before a production promotion.
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New Commits Since Last Review
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| S1 | Relay startup: no warn! that rate limiting is disabled |
bin/rayls-relay/src/main.rs |
Fixed locally — apply diff above |
| C2 | ConnectionEstablished warn fires during pending-reservation window |
runtime.rs:169 |
Fixed locally — apply diff above |
| C3 | retry_relay_reservations logs info! every 15s during outages |
runtime.rs:93 |
Fixed locally — apply diff above |
| C4 | DNS failure in resolve_relay_circuits logged to "network-kad" |
command.rs:445 |
Fixed locally — apply diff above |
| S2 | Fixed test seeds in RELAY_KEYS.md, no production guard in keypair_from_seed_env |
main.rs:193–201 |
Open — medium priority, pre-production |
| C1 | relay_reservations HashMap grows without bound; stale entries retried forever after config churn |
runtime.rs:83–100 |
Open — medium priority, pre-production |
| D1 | TODO-CRv2-NETWORKING.md committed to repo root |
/TODO-CRv2-NETWORKING.md |
Open — convert to GH issue before merge |
| script-C3 | add-relay-node.sh peer-id regex 12D3KooW[A-Za-z0-9]* matches partial log writes |
add-relay-node.sh:117 |
Open — low priority |
S2 and C1 are the only remaining items worth addressing before a production promotion. D1 (the TODO file) should be converted to a GitHub issue before merge.
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| S2 | Fixed test seeds in RELAY_KEYS.md with no production guard in keypair_from_seed_env |
bin/rayls-relay/src/main.rs |
Medium — pre-production |
| C1 | relay_reservations HashMap grows without bound; stale entries retried forever after config churn |
runtime.rs:83–100 |
Medium — pre-production |
| D1 | TODO-CRv2-NETWORKING.md committed to repo root |
/TODO-CRv2-NETWORKING.md |
Low — convert to GH issue before merge |
| script-C3 | add-relay-node.sh peer-id regex 12D3KooW[A-Za-z0-9]* matches partial log writes |
add-relay-node.sh:117 |
Low |
S2 and C1 are the only items worth addressing before a production promotion. Everything else is unblocked for merge as a PoC.
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Claude finished @procdump's task in 3m 39s —— View job PR Review: feat: route consensus p2p through circuit-relay-v2
Fixes Applied Locally (Push Blocked — Apply Manually)Four changes were committed locally as S1 — -use tracing::info;
+use tracing::{info, warn};
let relay_cfg = relay_config()?;
+warn!(
+ "rate limiting disabled — this relay is configured for testnet use only; \
+ do not deploy on a public network without re-enabling reservation/circuit limiters"
+);
let mut swarm = libp2p::SwarmBuilder::with_existing_identity(key)Rate limiters are zeroed unconditionally in C2 — - && !self.relay_reservations.is_empty()
+ && self.relay_reservations.values().any(Option::is_some)
C3 — - info!(target: "network", ?addr, "re-attempting relay reservation");
+ debug!(target: "network", ?addr, "re-attempting relay reservation");
C4 — - warn!(target: "network-kad", %name, ?e, "failed to resolve /dnsaddr for relay discovery");
+ warn!(target: "network", %name, ?e, "failed to resolve /dnsaddr for relay discovery");This is relay/DNS discovery code, not kademlia. The wrong target misattributes relay DNS failures to kademlia when operators filter by subsystem ( New Commit:
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| S2 | Fixed test seeds in RELAY_KEYS.md with no production guard in keypair_from_seed_env |
bin/rayls-relay/src/main.rs |
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| C1 | relay_reservations HashMap grows without bound; stale entries retried forever after config churn |
runtime.rs:83–100 |
Medium — pre-production |
| D1 | TODO-CRv2-NETWORKING.md committed to repo root |
/TODO-CRv2-NETWORKING.md |
Low — convert to GH issue before merge |
| script-C3 | add-relay-node.sh peer-id regex 12D3KooW[A-Za-z0-9]* matches partial log writes |
add-relay-node.sh:117 |
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S2 and C1 are the only items worth addressing before a production promotion. The four one-liner fixes (S1, C2, C3, C4) are applied locally in commit 3622b21 and ready to apply manually to the branch.
Positive Highlights (new commit)
- Defaulting
MULTI_LISTEN_BINDto127.0.0.1is the right security call: it matches the direct dnsaddr records already advertising127.0.0.1, so the topology intent (co-located direct, cross-host relay) is now enforced at the network layer rather than relying on operator discipline. - The
0.0.0.0escape hatch (MULTI_LISTEN_BIND=0.0.0.0) preserves backward compatibility for any existing setups that relied on all-interface binding. - Both the inline script comment and the onboarding doc are updated consistently.
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Fixes Applied Locally (Push Blocked — Apply Manually)Four changes were staged and committed locally as S1 — -use tracing::info;
+use tracing::{info, warn};
let relay_cfg = relay_config()?;
+warn!(
+ "rate limiting disabled — this relay is configured for testnet use only; \
+ do not deploy on a public network without re-enabling reservation/circuit limiters"
+);
let mut swarm = libp2p::SwarmBuilder::with_existing_identity(key)C2 — - && !self.relay_reservations.is_empty()
+ && self.relay_reservations.values().any(Option::is_some)C3 — - info!(target: "network", ?addr, "re-attempting relay reservation");
+ debug!(target: "network", ?addr, "re-attempting relay reservation");C4 — - warn!(target: "network-kad", %name, ?e, "failed to resolve /dnsaddr for relay discovery");
+ warn!(target: "network", %name, ?e, "failed to resolve /dnsaddr for relay discovery");New Commit:
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| S2 | Fixed test seeds in RELAY_KEYS.md with no production guard in keypair_from_seed_env |
bin/rayls-relay/src/main.rs |
Medium — pre-production |
| C1 | relay_reservations HashMap grows without bound; stale entries retried forever after config churn |
runtime.rs:83–100 |
Medium — pre-production |
| D1 | TODO-CRv2-NETWORKING.md committed to repo root |
/TODO-CRv2-NETWORKING.md |
Low — convert to GH issue before merge |
| script-C3 | add-relay-node.sh peer-id regex 12D3KooW[A-Za-z0-9]* matches partial log writes |
add-relay-node.sh:117 |
Low |
S2 and C1 are the only items worth addressing before a production promotion. The four one-liner fixes (S1, C2, C3, C4) are prepared in local commit 16c7f2c and ready to apply manually.
Positive Highlights (new commit)
RELAY_PUBLIC_HOSTrewrite is done by in-process bash string substitution rather than post-hoc sed on a file — no race with a concurrently-running dnsmasq.- Single-host defaults are unchanged:
RELAY_PUBLIC_HOST="${RELAY_PUBLIC_HOST:-$RELAY_HOST}"means nothing changes unless explicitly overridden. export_join_bundlecorrectly uses amissingaccumulator rather than short-circuiting on the first missing file, so the error output lists all missing files in a single run.- The README one-shot sequence (step 1 → 1b → 2 → 3 → 4) correctly orders the cross-host steps: start first, bundle after genesis exists, then join.
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| S2 | Fixed test seeds in RELAY_KEYS.md with no production guard in keypair_from_seed_env |
bin/rayls-relay/src/main.rs |
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| C1 | relay_reservations HashMap grows without bound; stale entries retried forever after config churn |
runtime.rs:83–100 |
Medium — pre-production |
| D1 | TODO-CRv2-NETWORKING.md committed to repo root |
/TODO-CRv2-NETWORKING.md |
Low — convert to GH issue before merge |
| script-C3 | add-relay-node.sh peer-id regex 12D3KooW[A-Za-z0-9]* matches partial log writes |
add-relay-node.sh:117 |
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S2 and C1 are the only items worth addressing before a production promotion. The four one-liner fixes (S1, C2, C3, C4) are staged in local commit 0ee9db4 and ready to apply manually to the branch.
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| # | Finding | File | Priority |
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| S2 | Fixed test seeds in RELAY_KEYS.md with no production guard in keypair_from_seed_env |
bin/rayls-relay/src/main.rs |
Medium — pre-production |
| C1 | relay_reservations HashMap grows without bound; stale entries retried forever after config churn |
runtime.rs:83–100 |
Medium — pre-production |
| D1 | TODO-CRv2-NETWORKING.md committed to repo root |
/TODO-CRv2-NETWORKING.md |
Low — convert to GH issue before merge |
| script-C3 | add-relay-node.sh peer-id regex 12D3KooW[A-Za-z0-9]* matches partial log writes |
add-relay-node.sh:117 |
Low |
S2 and C1 are the only items worth addressing before a production promotion. The four one-liner fixes (S1, C2, C3, C4) are in local commit 9ebd2ec and ready to apply manually.
Positive Highlights (new commits)
DNSMASQ_HOSTforwarding inbounce-node.shcorrectly mirrors the pattern established forDNSMASQ_PORTin the prior commit — consistent forwarding semantics across all DNS-resolver knobs.- The
RELAY_HOSTdefault of127.0.0.1is the right conservative choice: single-host topology is unchanged, and the cross-host path requires explicit opt-in with a self-documenting variable name. - Commit message for
23c70a4correctly documents the keygen-baking constraint upfront in the body and in the code comment — future operators won't be confused by "why didn't setting RELAY_HOST on bounce do anything?" - The onboarding doc now shows a complete cross-host invocation with all required knobs side by side in the one-shot sequence.
… + DNS log target) C2: gate the 'direct connection to a non-relay peer on a relayed node' warning on an *active* reservation (relay_reservations.values().any(Option::is_some)) rather than a merely-requested one (!is_empty()). Reservation keys are inserted before the RESERVE handshake completes, so during the boot window the map is non-empty while nothing is reserved yet -- direct dials completing then were false-positiving. Ties the warning to a live reservation. C4: log /dnsaddr relay-resolution failures under target 'network' instead of 'network-kad' -- this is relay/DNS discovery, not kademlia, and the wrong target misattributes failures when operators filter by subsystem.
Addresses PR raylsnetwork#33 finding S1. The relay zeroes libp2p's per-source rate limiters (they trip on the local testnet where all validators hairpin from 127.0.0.1). Emit a plain startup warning that rate limiting is off; the comment notes that per-source limiters can't meaningfully protect a shared relay anyway (finite circuit lifetimes would force-close live consensus links), so protection is left to the network edge.
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| S1 | Relay startup: no warn! that rate limiting is disabled |
bin/rayls-relay/src/main.rs |
✅ Fixed in ae0c351 |
| C2 | ConnectionEstablished warn fires during pending-reservation window |
runtime.rs:176 |
✅ Fixed in 705d956 |
| C4 | DNS failure in resolve_relay_circuits logged to "network-kad" |
command.rs:442 |
✅ Fixed in 705d956 |
| C3 | retry_relay_reservations logs info! every 15s during outages |
runtime.rs:93 |
Open — one-liner: info! → debug! |
| S2 | Fixed test seeds in RELAY_KEYS.md, no production guard in keypair_from_seed_env |
main.rs |
Open — pre-production |
| C1 | relay_reservations HashMap grows without bound; stale entries retried forever |
runtime.rs:83–100 |
Open — pre-production |
| D1 | TODO-CRv2-NETWORKING.md committed to repo root |
/TODO-CRv2-NETWORKING.md |
Open — convert to GH issue before merge |
| script-C3 | add-relay-node.sh peer-id regex 12D3KooW[A-Za-z0-9]* matches partial log writes |
add-relay-node.sh:129 |
Open — low priority |
Remaining One-Liner Fix (C3)
C3 is the only easy fix not yet applied. runtime.rs:93:
- info!(target: "network", ?addr, "re-attempting relay reservation");
+ debug!(target: "network", ?addr, "re-attempting relay reservation");handle_listener_closed already emits warn! at the moment a relay reservation is lost — that is the operator-actionable signal. The retry fires every 15 s per unestablished reservation; during a sustained relay outage this generates an info!-level log line every 15 s indefinitely. warn! on loss + debug! on each retry is the right split.
Summary
Three of the seven previously-open findings are now fixed. The three highest-priority one-liner fixes (S1, C2, C4) are merged. C3 is the only remaining one-liner and should be trivial to fold in. S2 and C1 are medium-priority pre-production items. D1 (the TODO file) should be converted to a GitHub issue before merge.
Remove the in-repo TODO file from git tracking (kept locally); branch follow-ups are tracked as GitHub issues instead. Drop the now-dangling references to it from the relay-client warning comment (runtime.rs) and the relay-network README / DESIGN-DECISIONS docs.
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…snetwork#33 script-C3) The peer-id read grepped 12D3KooW[A-Za-z0-9]* and broke the poll loop on any non-empty match, so a partial log write (grep racing the relay's startup flush) could bake a truncated -- thus wrong -- relay address. Gate on the exact peer-id length (52 chars) inside the loop so a short match is rejected and polling continues until the full id lands. Length-only test, portable across GNU/BSD grep and bash 3.2 (macOS).
add-relay-node.sh stays node-only (add/restart, restart-safe) but now derives a deterministic throwaway operator identity from the index (OPERATOR_KEY = 0x(1000+i), ADDRESS via `cast`) and bakes it into the node's proof-of-possession at keygen, so the node can be staked later. Without `cast` it falls back to the zero address (pure observer). On startup it prints the exact one-liner to promote it. No stake happens here -- the node just follows the committee as an observer. stake-relay-node.sh (new) is the one-time on-chain step: it derives the SAME operator identity from the index (so it matches the baked PoP), defaults the registry-owner admin key to anvil #0, and runs fund -> allowlistValidator -> stake -> activate. The node then promotes to a committee validator at the next epoch boundary. Everything is env-overridable for non-default networks. Splitting staking out keeps add-relay-node.sh idempotent (safe to re-run on restart) while staking runs exactly once. Allowlisting is onlyOwner, so joining the committee remains governance-gated; an unstaked node is always an observer.
Staking pulls the RLS ERC-20 (0x..E17eA) via transferFrom, not the native gas token, and the required stake is 5e24 (genesis default), so the previous fund+allowlist+stake flow reverted (InsufficientAllowance/Balance). Correct the flow to 6 steps: fund native gas -> mint 5e24 RLS to the operator (admin holds MINTER_ROLE at genesis) -> allowlist (tolerant of re-runs) -> operator approves the registry -> stake -> activate. Add a readiness gate: right after `local-testnet.sh --start` the genesis system contracts aren't live yet (RLS proxy has no implementation -> mint silently no-ops; registry has no owner -> allowlist reverts), which produced confusing mid-flow failures. Poll (up to ~2min) until the RLS ERC-1967 impl slot is non-zero AND the ConsensusRegistry has an owner before any on-chain step, and abort early with a clear message otherwise.
Add RELAY-NODE-ONBOARDING.md documenting the relay-fronted testnet and the dynamic validator onboarding flow end-to-end: the MULTI_LISTEN + --relay-dns start, add-relay-node (observer via the public DNS view), and stake-relay-node (readiness gate -> mint -> allowlist -> approve -> stake -> activate). Includes the per-node port map, mesh observability via the consensus metrics endpoint, the gotchas we hit (genesis skip-if-exists, dev-funds = owner+minter, startup init race), and a pointer to the open dynamic-committee questions.
…atch-up batch A batch-fetch failure during CvvInactive catch-up (or Observer follow) that survives the in-loop retries previously panicked the "subscriber catch up and rejoin consensus" critical task, aborting the whole rayls-network process. This reproduced when repeatedly killing + restarting a validator: on restart its worker mesh isn't fully re-established, so no currently-connected peer serves a batch a committed output references, and after the retries the node crashed. Now such a batch-fetch error (MissingFetchedBatch / ClientRequestsFailed) is handled gracefully: - CvvInactive catch-up: demote to Observer (request_mode_transition) and keep following; it re-attempts catch-up at a later epoch boundary once the mesh is back. CvvInactive->Observer is an allowed transition. - Observer follow: exit the follow attempt without panicking; spawn_subscriber re-arms it next epoch. Other (non-batch-fetch) errors still panic. This is NOT a garbage-collection issue: GC prunes the certificate DAG (rounds), not the worker batch store, so the batch still exists on some holder -- the miss is a connectivity/timing gap (holder not among connected peers within the retry window). Demotion converts a fatal panic into a survivable degraded state that self-heals once connectivity returns. REVISIT: the proper fix is a connectivity-aware fetch -- keep retrying while the worker is connected to fewer than the committee's workers, instead of declaring a batch missing against a half-connected mesh (flagged with XXX in the code).
…art tooling Make stopping/restarting a single node reliable and env-correct, so restarting a validator (e.g. in a chaos loop) doesn't boot with a bare env and fail /dnsaddr resolution -> can't reach quorum -> can't rejoin. local-testnet.sh: - Extract build_relay_env(seq) (relay reservations + RAYLS_DNS_SERVER + MULTI_LISTEN direct listeners), shared by the --start loop and the single-validator path so they can't drift. --start-validator now rebuilds the SAME env as --start (pass the same mode flags, e.g. MULTI_LISTEN=1 ... --start-validator N --relay-dns). - start_relay_pair(i)/stop_relay_pair(i): a validator's relays are now managed by --start-validator/--stop-validator (revive if down / scrap on stop). Relay seeds are deterministic, so a restarted relay keeps its peer id and the dnsmasq records stay valid. start_relays() loops start_relay_pair. - stop_validator: send SIGTERM and wait INDEFINITELY -- no kill -9. A hung graceful shutdown now blocks (and is caught) instead of being masked. Relays are stateless, so stop_relay_pair does SIGTERM then kill -9 if they linger. stop-relay-node.sh (new): inverse of add-relay-node.sh -- stops the added node (graceful, wait-forever, no kill -9) and its relay (SIGTERM then kill -9). fork_test_configs/bounce-node.sh: chaos loop that waits for is_caught_up then stop->restart in a loop. Two modes: base validators via local-testnet.sh --stop/--start-validator; dynamically-added nodes (ADDED=1) via stop-relay-node.sh + add-relay-node.sh, polling the added node's RPC port. RELAY-NODE-ONBOARDING.md: document stopping (one-shot block + a Stopping/restarting /chaos-testing section covering the base-vs-added toolchains, the mode-flag gotcha, the no-kill-9 shutdown semantics, and bounce-node.sh).
The per-tx `nonce_too_high_detail` loop logged one warn line per dropped tx — thousands during a single-sender nonce burst, flooding the logs. The `nonce_range_for_sender` summary already carries the actionable per-sender gap info at warn; keep the per-tx detail at debug for when you're actually chasing a gap (RUST_LOG=batch_tracker=debug). No allocation on the log path.
… bounce-node Two bounce-node.sh changes: - Default ADDED-mode DNSMASQ_PORT to 5353 (private/direct) to match add-relay-node.sh. It previously defaulted to 5354 (public/relay), so adding a node with the default then bouncing it silently flipped its committee-resolution view (direct -> relay) across the restart. Pass DNSMASQ_PORT=5354 for the relay view on both. - Add a DOWN_SECS knob (default 0): keep the node down that long before restarting, so it can fall behind across epoch boundaries to exercise the catch-up path.
In the chaos-test section of RELAY-NODE-ONBOARDING.md, spell out the DNSMASQ_PORT transport semantics inline on the bounce commands: added nodes honor it (5353 = direct, 5354 = relayed) and the bounce passes it through on every respawn; base validators always resolve via the private/direct view (5353) since build_relay_env pins them, so DNSMASQ_PORT is not honored for a base bounce.
…o loopback MULTI_LISTEN direct listeners now bind MULTI_LISTEN_BIND (default 127.0.0.1) instead of a hardcoded 0.0.0.0. Loopback-only matches the direct dnsaddr records (which advertise 127.0.0.1), so co-located nodes still mesh directly while the listener is never exposed on an external interface -- any cross-host reach must go through a relay. Set MULTI_LISTEN_BIND=0.0.0.0 to restore all-interface binding. Relays are unaffected (still 0.0.0.0).
Starting the network on one host and adding a node from another needs the loopback defaults overridden (all default to 127.0.0.1, single-host unchanged): - DNSMASQ_BIND (local-testnet.sh): resolver --listen-address; 0.0.0.0 serves the /dnsaddr records to other hosts. - RELAY_PUBLIC_HOST (local-testnet.sh): IP advertised for the relays in the public :5354 dnsaddr records, so a remote joiner resolves a reachable relay instead of 127.0.0.1. Rewrites only the public-view records; the relay server already listens on all interfaces. - DNSMASQ_HOST (add-relay-node.sh): resolver address the joining node points RAYLS_DNS_SERVER at. Also add --export-join-bundle: tars the three files a follower needs (genesis.yaml + committee.yaml + parameters.yaml) with paths relative to local-validators/, so the joiner extracts them where add-relay-node.sh expects. Documented in the one-shot sequence in RELAY-NODE-ONBOARDING.md.
stake-relay-node.sh defaults RPC_URL to :8545 (a base committee member), which is absent on a machine running only the joined node. Document passing node-6's own RPC (8440 = 8545-(INSTANCE-1) for N=6) in the one-shot sequence so staking works whether run on the committee host or the joiner's host.
ADDED-mode start_node passed DNSMASQ_PORT but not DNSMASQ_HOST, so a cross-host bounce respawned the node with the default 127.0.0.1 resolver -- absent on the joiner's machine -- and it couldn't re-resolve the committee /dnsaddr. Forward DNSMASQ_HOST (default 127.0.0.1, single-host unchanged) like DNSMASQ_PORT.
RELAY_HOST was hardcoded to 127.0.0.1, so a node added from another machine
advertised its relay circuit at loopback -- unreachable from the committee host,
so committee members could not dial it back (consensus still worked via the
node's own outbound dials, but the reverse direction couldn't establish). Make
it RELAY_HOST=${RELAY_HOST:-127.0.0.1}; set it to the joining host's IP so the
node advertises a reachable relay. Must be set at first add (baked at keygen).
Documented in the one-shot sequence alongside DNSMASQ_HOST.
… + DNS log target) C2: gate the 'direct connection to a non-relay peer on a relayed node' warning on an *active* reservation (relay_reservations.values().any(Option::is_some)) rather than a merely-requested one (!is_empty()). Reservation keys are inserted before the RESERVE handshake completes, so during the boot window the map is non-empty while nothing is reserved yet -- direct dials completing then were false-positiving. Ties the warning to a live reservation. C4: log /dnsaddr relay-resolution failures under target 'network' instead of 'network-kad' -- this is relay/DNS discovery, not kademlia, and the wrong target misattributes failures when operators filter by subsystem.
Addresses PR raylsnetwork#33 finding S1. The relay zeroes libp2p's per-source rate limiters (they trip on the local testnet where all validators hairpin from 127.0.0.1). Emit a plain startup warning that rate limiting is off; the comment notes that per-source limiters can't meaningfully protect a shared relay anyway (finite circuit lifetimes would force-close live consensus links), so protection is left to the network edge.
Remove the in-repo TODO file from git tracking (kept locally); branch follow-ups are tracked as GitHub issues instead. Drop the now-dangling references to it from the relay-client warning comment (runtime.rs) and the relay-network README / DESIGN-DECISIONS docs.
…snetwork#33 script-C3) The peer-id read grepped 12D3KooW[A-Za-z0-9]* and broke the poll loop on any non-empty match, so a partial log write (grep racing the relay's startup flush) could bake a truncated -- thus wrong -- relay address. Gate on the exact peer-id length (52 chars) inside the loop so a short match is rejected and polling continues until the full id lands. Length-only test, portable across GNU/BSD grep and bash 3.2 (macOS).
reth defaults --http.addr/--ws.addr to 127.0.0.1, so the local testnet's RPC wasn't reachable off-host. Bind 0.0.0.0 on all local-testnet.sh node launches (validators + observers) and the add-relay-node.sh launch, matching the existing start-local-validator/observer.sh convention -- lets a tx generator (or any client) drive the nodes from another machine instead of competing for CPU on the node host. Test-network only; deployment scripts left on loopback.
--relay requires a fixed relay peer id per validator; the array only had 4, so NUM_VALIDATORS>4 failed with 'RELAY_PEER_IDS[N] is not filled in'. Extend to 32 (seed = byte (index+1) repeated 32x, peer id derived via rayls-relay; entries 1-4 reproduce the existing ids exactly). Supports up to 32 validators in relay mode without hand-filling ids.
Add BENCHMARKS.md: relay vs no-relay finality/throughput at 4+1 and 6+1 under a sustained 10k-tps load (tps-checker on a separate host driving 0.0.0.0-bound RPCs). Documents the setup, the generator command, the result tables, and the single-host lower-bound caveat. Finding: relays are within noise of direct; committee size (4->6) is the dominant cost.
Second 6+1 relay run came in slightly worse than the first (p99 8.1s vs 6.8s, 669 vs 708 blocks). Add it as a column; reword the finding in plain terms: one relay run beat direct and one was slower (no-relay p99 7.1s sits between the relay runs' 6.8s and 8.1s), so it's run-to-run variance, not a consistent relay penalty. Note 6+1 needs 3+ runs per config for a firm conclusion.
Bounce one relay by index without touching its node, using the same fixed-identity scheme as local-testnet.sh/add-relay-node.sh (primary: port 50000+(N-1), seed byte N; --backup: port 51000+(N-1), seed byte 0xb0+(N-1)). Same peer id across a bounce, so the fronted validator re-reserves on its own. Honors BUILD_CONFIG. Referenced from RELAY-NODE-ONBOARDING.md's chaos-testing section for relay failure/recovery.
…atal-ban A circuit relay speaks no gossipsub, so the GossipsubNotSupported one-shot Fatal penalty banned the relay and severed every circuit routed through it, stranding relayed committee members. Record such peers as relay infrastructure (penalty-exempt, dropped from kad) via mark_relay_peer instead; a real committee validator failing negotiation is surfaced loudly rather than exempted.
…seeding
When a relayed node booted isolated, discovery seeding dialed known peers by their
stored address as-is -- including unresolved /dnsaddr committee members. That opens
a non-circuit connection that sanitize_ip_addr denies ("no valid unbanned IP"), and
the failed dial's register_disconnected races with and tears down the circuit the
DialBls path had just established, so a restarted relayed node could never hold its
committee connections and got stuck (CvvInactive) until the validators restarted.
Seed only concrete, already-dialable addresses and drop /dnsaddr ones; committee
members are re-dialed via redial_missing_committee -> DialBls, which resolves them
to concrete /p2p-circuit addresses first.
Emit the penalty that tipped a peer into a ban (warn, fires only on ban), and the transport path + remaining connection count + ConnectionError cause on connection close (info), so ban and teardown reasons are explicit in the file log instead of having to be inferred from surrounding events.
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- info!(target: "network", ?addr, "re-attempting relay reservation");
+ debug!(target: "network", ?addr, "re-attempting relay reservation");
Full Finding Status
Five of the eight tracked findings are fixed in the branch. C3 is the sole remaining one-liner — the diff is above, ready to apply. S2 and C1 are medium-priority pre-production items; neither blocks this PoC. Note on push access: Every automated review pass has attempted to push C3 directly and been rejected with |
Adds an observer (no relay in front, never in committee) that reaches the committee directly or through their relays via /dnsaddr. Requires the operator to supply the network files; restart-safe. Documented in RELAY-NODE-ONBOARDING.md.
The relay-less observer was left on keygen's node-info default (127.0.0.1), so its outbound QUIC could not reach external relays and no dial completed. Default the p2p listener to 0.0.0.0 (all interfaces), matching how base observers run on main; overridable via LISTEN_HOST or the PRIMARY/WORKER_LISTENER_MULTIADDR env vars.
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| # | Finding | File | Status |
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| S1 | Relay startup: no warn! that rate limiting is disabled |
bin/rayls-relay/src/main.rs |
✅ Fixed in ae0c351 |
| C2 | ConnectionEstablished warn fires during pending-reservation window |
runtime.rs:176 |
✅ Fixed in 705d956 |
| C4 | DNS failure in resolve_relay_circuits logged to "network-kad" |
command.rs:442 |
✅ Fixed in 705d956 |
| D1 | TODO-CRv2-NETWORKING.md committed to repo root |
repo root | ✅ Fixed in 734bb22 |
| script-C3 | add-relay-node.sh peer-id regex matches partial log writes |
add-relay-node.sh:129 |
✅ Fixed in 583475f |
| C3 | retry_relay_reservations logs info! every 15s during outages |
runtime.rs:93 |
Prepared locally (01f2ad8) — apply diff above |
| S2 | Fixed test seeds in RELAY_KEYS.md, no production guard in keypair_from_seed_env |
bin/rayls-relay/src/main.rs |
Open — pre-production |
| C1 | relay_reservations HashMap grows without bound; stale entries retried forever |
runtime.rs:83–100 |
Open — pre-production |
Five of the eight tracked findings are fixed in the branch. C3 is the sole remaining one-liner — the diff is above, ready to apply. S2 and C1 are medium-priority pre-production items; neither blocks this PoC.
Note on push access: Every automated review pass has attempted to push C3 directly and been rejected with 403 Permission denied. To unblock future automated fixes, grant the github-actions[bot] account write access to this branch, or apply the one-liner above manually.

Problem
The consensus p2p layer only supports direct QUIC dialing — validators connect
to each other using the addresses in
committee.yaml, which exposes everyvalidator's IP and offers no way to front a validator with a relay, keep it
NAT'd/unreachable directly, or fail over if its ingress point goes away. We want
circuit-relay-v2 as an option, so a validator can be reached only through a
relay it controls (and isolated / failed over between relays) — while keeping
direct QUIC fully supported. The relay path is opt-in per node via config; nodes
that don't enable it dial directly, exactly as before.
What's changed
Circuit-relay-v2 is added as an opt-in transport path alongside direct QUIC —
enabled per node via keygen/config (
--relay/--advertise-dnsaddr+ relay env).With none of it set, behaviour is unchanged (direct dialing).
Client (consensus network)
and is reached single-hop through it; outbound dials open circuits to the
destination's relay.
inbound connections are accepted, and committee members are re-dialed on the
heartbeat so a dropped peer reconnects without waiting for the next epoch.
re-reserved when it returns) instead of the swarm treating "no listeners" as
shutdown.
Relay server
rayls-relaycircuit-relay-v2 server binary (fixed test identities, raisedreservation/circuit limits, external-address advertisement so grants carry an
address, shared QUIC limits with the node, no idle-close of reserving peers).
DNS / failover
/dnsaddrname that resolves (TXT) to all of anode's relays, with reservations on each, so peers fail over to a backup relay
when the primary dies.
/dnsaddris resolved to concrete/p2p-circuitaddresses at dial time (required for the relay client to classify the connection
as relayed).
Testnet tooling & verification
local-testnet.sh --relay/--relay-dns: auto-spawn per-validator relays (anddnsmasq for the DNS variant);
add-relay-node.shto attach an extra relayednode to a running net.
relay (relay is default gateway + NAT egress), a topology verifier that proves
traffic is relayed-only, and a blue-green failover harness with DNS-driven
cutover.
Perf
a shared
QuicConfig::apply.Verified
--relayand--relay-dnslocal testnets reach stable consensus with alltraffic relayed; killing a validator's primary relay keeps consensus running as
peers fail over to the backup.
through its relay (topology verifier confirms no direct validator↔validator
paths).