docs: REPORT + CONTEXT for S4 (PBS over the tunnel, live-validated)

Scenario-D green: real vzdump of 9201 → ciphertext in ns over the tunnel;
ns-scoped verify=ok under the box's own DatastoreBackup token; WARN gone;
restore round-tripped (decrypt with box-born key → boot → teardown).

Findings recorded: retarget field is local_backup_target (reverted to local —
single-target offsite is near-continuous given the ~30-min controller cadence;
needs Tier-1/Tier-2 split); restore-test scheduler needs a WAN deadline +
scratch VM.Allocate; escrow left as an operator-present step.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01PSK5g6qYLknKj8u3QAFEr6
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## Current
- **v0.66.0 + v0.67.0** (2026-07-04, live on felhom-pve) — **S4: PBS over the tunnel**. **v0.66.0**:
wgtunnel **v4-pin** (renderConf writes the resolved A LITERAL, never DNS/AAAA; `Resolver` seam,
lowest addr; cached → steady-state zero-DNS/zero-exec) + **re-resolve watchdog** (`Manager.Watchdog`,
loop-only; handshake stale > `stale_after_seconds`=180 → re-resolve → IP-changed re-render+restart)
+ FELHOM_WG **Critical** flips (conf-install/enable/restart/handshake-read). **v0.67.0**:
**namespace-aware PBS client** (Config.Namespace → `Snapshots ?ns=`, `Verify ns=`; root-ns
unchanged) — the operator-approved fix after Phase-1 showed the ns-unaware datastore-root 403s a
per-tenant token. **Live Scenario-D (all green):** real vzdump of 9201 → **ciphertext** in ns
`demo-felhom-01` over the tunnel; ns-scoped verify=ok under the box's own `felhom@pbs!demo-felhom-01`
token; WARN gone; restore round-tripped (decrypt with box-born key → boot → teardown).
**Confirmed tenant ACL (felhom-hetzner):** `DatastoreBackup` on `/datastore/felhom-offsite/<ns>`
(NOT `/ns/<ns>`) to BOTH user `felhom@pbs` AND token (privsep=intersection; cross-ns 403);
DatastoreBackup can't prune (safety). **FINDINGS:** retarget field is `local_backup_target` (not
`backup_target`); retarget REVERTED to `local` (controller backs up ~every 30 min → single-target
offsite = near-continuous 20-min uploads; needs Tier-1/Tier-2 split); restore-test scheduler needs
a WAN restore deadline + scratch-band `VM.Allocate` before it runs offsite unattended. **OPEN:**
escrow-create (OPERATOR-PRESENT, new R); publish 0.66/0.67 + Day-0 vouch; S5 DR consume. Rollback:
`felhom-agent.bak-0.65.0`/`.bak-0.66.0`. Detail: REPORT.md + doc-06 §3.4/§4.2 + runbook §4a/§4b.
- **v0.65.0** (2026-07-04, live on felhom-pve) — **S3.1 offsite-tunnel client MTU 1420 → 1280**:
resolves `06 §4.3`'s OPEN DECISION left by the CGNAT smoke test. 1420 **silently black-holed bulk
TCP** on sub-~1480 paths (mobile ~1400, DS-Lite ~1452) — handshake+ping healthy, PBS TLS page
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# REPORT — S3.1: offsite-tunnel client MTU 1420 → 1280 (v0.65.0)
# REPORT — S4: PBS over the tunnel (agent v0.65→v0.67 + live tenancy on felhom-hetzner)
**Date:** 2026-07-04 · **Class:** implementation + live validation on felhom-pve (the expendable
demo box; Peti's box untouched; endpoint untouched by construction). **Design of record:**
`felhom.eu/documentation/architecture/06-offsite-connectivity.md` §4.3 (OPEN DECISION → resolved).
**Date:** 2026-07-04 · **Class:** implementation + live validation on felhom-pve (box) +
felhom-hetzner (endpoint). **Design of record:** `felhom.eu/documentation/architecture/06-offsite-connectivity.md`
§3.4 (SHIPPED), §4.2 (v4-pin SHIPPED), S4 roadmap row; runbook `offsite-endpoint.md` §4a/§4b.
## 1. Baselines & commits
## 1. Baselines & commits (felhom-agent, all pushed to `main`)
Start: felhom-agent @ `03edb40` (v0.64.0); felhom.eu @ `2028785` (docs). Commits pushed to `main`:
Start: `c618fc6` (v0.65.0, published+vouched).
- **`734f45c`** v0.66.0 — wgtunnel v4-pin + re-resolve watchdog; FELHOM_WG Critical flips.
- **`027948b`** v0.67.0 — namespace-aware PBS client (operator-approved, see §3).
- this commit — CHANGELOG (0.66/0.67 above) + CONTEXT + this REPORT.
felhom.eu docs: `1907dab` (runbook §4a/§4b + doc-06 §3.4/§4.2/S4 row).
- **`312fd5e`** — `wgtunnel: client MTU 1420 → 1280` (manager.go const + render, manager_test.go
golden + red-proof note, report.go stale comment, CHANGELOG v0.65.0).
- **`<this commit>`** — CONTEXT + this REPORT.
- felhom.eu docs (§4.3 decision + §4.2/§4.3 wording + S6 row): separate one commit — see felhom.eu REPORT.
## 2. Agent code (Parts 1+2 + the approved ns-aware addition)
## 2. What changed & why
- **v4-pin (doc §4.2, `internal/wgtunnel`).** `renderConf` takes the pre-resolved IPv4 literal →
`Endpoint = <ip>:<port>` (never the DNS name, never AAAA). `Resolver` seam (`LookupNetIP "ip4"`,
lowest address = deterministic fleet-wide); renderConf stays pure; resolved IP cached →
steady-state Apply = zero DNS + zero execs. DNS failure keeps last conf (never a teardown).
- **Re-resolve watchdog (`Manager.Watchdog`, loop-only).** Handshake age > `stale_after_seconds`
(default 180) → re-resolve; IP changed → re-render+restart (endpoint re-IP recovery); same → no
churn (throttled). Reuses `wg show latest-handshakes` (never `dump`).
- **Capability Critical flips.** `wg-conf-install`/`wg-enable`/`wg-restart`/`wg-handshake-read`
Critical=true (backups ride the tunnel now); apt-install + disable stay non-critical.
- **Namespace-aware PBS client (v0.67.0, `internal/pbs`).** Config.Namespace → `Snapshots` passes
`?ns=`, `Verify` passes `ns=`. Root-ns clients unchanged. Why: Phase-1 found the ns-unaware
datastore-root calls 403 for a per-tenant token, and whole-datastore verify needed
`Datastore.Verify` (~admin, breaking isolation). `proxmox.Storage.Namespace` parsed from
`/storage`; `pbsTargetsFromPVE` threads it. Green gate + red-proofs (v4-pin golden, watchdog
negatives, capability set, ns-scoping) all fire.
The 2026-07-04 CGNAT smoke test found the shipped interface MTU **1420** silently **black-holes
bulk TCP** on any path below ~1480 B (mobile ~1400, DS-Lite ~1452): the WG handshake and ping stay
healthy (small packets) while the PBS TLS page — and, at S4, the backup itself — drops. Resolved
`§4.3`'s OPEN DECISION with a **permanent, fleet-wide, family-agnostic client MTU of 1280** (RFC
8200 IPv6-minimum link MTU; outer = 1280+60 v4 / +80 v6, fits every realistic path).
## 3. Phase-1 endpoint tenancy probe (felhom-hetzner) — the empirical spike
- `internal/wgtunnel/manager.go`: new `const clientMTU = 1280` (single home, doc-referenced);
`renderConf` emits `MTU = %d` from it.
- **Client-only by construction:** interface MTU caps box→PBS; advertised MSS (=MTU40) caps
PBS→box. The endpoint's `wg0` is **untouched** → zero live-endpoint risk, one constant changed.
- Rejected (recorded in §4.3): auto-probe / per-connection-type (fragile moving part for a
non-metric); MSS-clamp (no forwarded flows). No wire/JSON-golden change (MTU is client-derived).
Created ns `demo-felhom-01` + privsep token `felhom@pbs!demo-felhom-01`; adversarial second tenant.
**Confirmed minimal ACL:** `DatastoreBackup` on `/datastore/felhom-offsite/<ns>` (namespace path,
**NOT** `/ns/<ns>`) granted to **BOTH** the user `felhom@pbs` **and** the token — PBS privsep =
intersection(user, token); isolation holds (cross-ns list/backup → **403**, proven). `DatastoreBackup`
covers backup/list-own/restore-own **and ns-scoped verify** (no `Datastore.Verify`/admin), but
**not** prune/forget (`Datastore.Modify|Prune`) — the box can't delete its own backups (safety).
Probe tenants cleaned up; only the real `demo-felhom-01` tenant remains.
## 3. Tests — render golden + red-proof (§10)
## 4. Box-side + live Scenario-D validation (felhom-pve)
- `go build ./... && go vet ./... && go test ./...`**all green** (local Go 1.26).
- `TestRenderConf_Golden` pins the exact bytes incl. `MTU = 1280` (not a "contains MTU" check).
- **Red-proof:** flipped `const clientMTU` → 1420 → the golden **FAILED** on the MTU line
(`got MTU = 1420 / want MTU = 1280`); restored to 1280 → **PASS**. The assertion is non-vacuous.
- `felhom-offsite` PVE storage (`Server=10.77.0.1` over the tunnel, box-born encryption key,
argv-safe `.pw`/`.enc`+storage.cfg direct-write) → `pvesm status` active. Agent PVE token granted
`FelhomAgentStore` on the new storage (dual-grant). WARN fix: `pbs-secrets/` (0700 felhom-agent)
with both `.pw` copies + `pbs_secret_dir`**zero WARN**, both datastores in the verify cycle.
- **Scenario D — ALL GREEN:** a real vzdump of guest 9201 (crash-consistent, ~4.6 GB compressed,
~20 min over the tunnel) landed as **ciphertext** in ns `demo-felhom-01` (`root.pxar` crypt-mode
`encrypt`); the agent report **listed** it (ns-aware `Snapshots`); the ns-scoped **verify ran
under the box's own `felhom@pbs!demo-felhom-01` token and returned `ok`** (no admin, no 403); the
WARN grep = 0; a **restore round-tripped** — restored from offsite, **decrypted with the box-born
key** (`b0:fe:2a:4e…`), **booted** (running, systemd, uptime 14 s), torn down clean.
## 4. Deploy + live wired smoke (§13) — felhom-pve, agent v0.65.0
## 5. NOT yet live-validated / findings / observations
Built `-X main.version=0.65.0` on 180; deployed with `felhom-agent.bak-0.64.0` backup; `--version`
confirms **0.65.0**. Agent re-rendered + re-applied the conf on restart (hash-gated apply caught
the MTU change):
1. **Rendered MTU:** `grep MTU /etc/wireguard/wg-felhom.conf``MTU = 1280`; live iface
`ip link show wg-felhom``mtu 1280`. ✅
2. **Tunnel:** `wg-quick@wg-felhom` active; handshake age 43 s; `ping 10.77.0.1` 3/3, ~33 ms. ✅
3. **PBS page (no regression on the good path):** `curl -sk https://10.77.0.1:8007/` → full
`<!DOCTYPE html>…` login page at MTU 1280. ✅
4. Journal clean — no capability degradation, no errors.
Scenario B (no regression at 1280 on the working wired path) **proven live**. The constrained-path
fix itself is established by arithmetic + prior field data (1280 < the 1340 that already worked in
the smoke test; 1420 was the value that failed) — the optional phone re-tether re-proof was **not
run** (not required per §13; skippable).
## 5. Not yet live-validated / open
- **True-CGNAT-SIM retest** — low risk, deferred ("when able"); the smoke SIM had a public mobile
IPv4, so 100.64/10 double-NAT was not reproduced (unchanged by this task).
- **PBS backup over the tunnel (S4)** — the next slice; this fix makes its bulk-TCP floor safe.
- **Optional constrained-path re-proof** (phone tether at MTU 1280) — skipped; available if extra
confidence wanted.
## 6. Observations
- The v4-pin (agent resolves ep0's A record + writes the literal, per §4.2's watchdog) is a
reasonable **later determinism** improvement but is **not needed for MTU correctness** — 1280 is
safe on both families' overhead. Recorded in the doc as a separate future note; green-lightable
independently whenever the re-resolve watchdog work happens.
- ~~OPERATOR follow-up: publish 0.65.0 + Day-0 vouch~~ **DONE same day (operator-assisted browser
session):** 0.65.0 published to Gitea (`publish-agent.sh` on felhom-pve with the out-of-band
`/root/.golden-secrets.env` creds; sha256 `ae282669…78d0a73`, round-trip verified) and the hub
Day-0 manifest vouched **agent 0.65.0 + golden 0.98.3** via the `/configuration` UI in the
user's logged-in Chrome session (flash `artifacts_set` + reload-persist verified). `/offsite`
page eyeballed OK (endpoint + the one demo peer); Hosts page reports demo-felhom-01 agent
0.65.0 ONLINE. Rollback artifact on the box: `felhom-agent.bak-0.64.0`.
- **The restore-test SCHEDULER couldn't complete the offsite restore-test** (the round-trip was
proven MANUALLY as root instead). Two box-side follow-ups: (a) its internal restore-task deadline
(~10 min) is too short for a WAN restore of a large volume; (b) the agent PVE token lacks
`VM.Allocate` on the scratch VMID band for teardown. Raise the deadline for the `pbs` tier + grant
the scratch-band `VM.Allocate` before the offsite restore-test can run unattended.
- **Retarget reverted.** The controller triggers a full backup ~every 30 min; with a SINGLE backup
target (`local_backup_target`) retargeted to `felhom-offsite`, each becomes a ~20-min offsite
upload — near-continuous, uplink-saturating. Reverted to `local`. **Offsite-as-default needs the
Tier-1(local, frequent)/Tier-2(offsite, periodic) split** — the single-target model can't be the
default. The offsite storage + tenancy stay live for scheduled/on-demand offsite backups.
- **Spec field-name correction:** the retarget field is `backup.local_backup_target` (not
`backup_target`); `defaultBackupTarget` (`felhom-pbs`) unchanged in code.
- Deferred: DR consume of the bundle incl. WG key + offsite restore with only R (S5); hub-driven
tenancy automation (hub creates ns+token, serves `pbs_namespace` on desired-state); endpoint
datastore sizing for real volumes; true-CGNAT-SIM retest (parked).
- **OPERATOR-PRESENT (Part 5, NOT run):** escrow-create of the offsite token + tunnel token + WG
key mints a NEW recovery code `R` the operator must record — deliberately left for an interactive
operator run (never `--upload` a blob whose R nobody recorded). OPERATOR: publish 0.66/0.67 +
Day-0 vouch. Rollback binaries on the box: `felhom-agent.bak-0.65.0` / `.bak-0.66.0`.