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Managed MCP registration now accepts a public DNS hostname only when one validated resolver response exposes at least two public addresses, then pins the sorted, deduplicated returned set. A singleton public DNS response fails closed because NemoClaw cannot distinguish a stable singleton from one member of a rotating set. Exact allowed_ips enforcement and trusted-private admission remain unchanged. Successful public restart, teardown rollback, and completed rebuild restoration persist the same pins they activate. When an existing public registration has at least two valid recorded pins and DNS returns one known member, restart and rebuild restoration deterministically retain the complete recorded set instead of widening or shrinking it from an incomplete response.

The managed gateway is also bound to proxy_connect_by_hostname = false. Add, restart, and rebuild restoration refuse all policy, provider, credential, registry, and adapter mutation unless the selected running gateway is proven to use the secured configuration through its declared NemoClaw lifecycle authority.

Reason

The rotating public DNS case in #10755 could pin only one healthy address. A later connection to another public member of the same answer set then failed OpenShell policy enforcement. Sampling a fixed number of singleton responses could still miss a later valid address, so this change refuses an incomplete public DNS set instead of claiming that a bounded sample is complete. Disabling hostname-side proxy resolution ensures OpenShell enforces the validated IP pins rather than resolving around them.

Related issues

Fixes #10755

Changes

  • Reject singleton public DNS responses with explicit fail-closed guidance.
  • Accept a multi-address public response, then sort, deduplicate, and pin the addresses in that response.
  • Keep public IPv4 literals, admitted trusted-private hostnames, and trusted-private IPv4 literals on their existing exact-pin paths.
  • Persist refreshed public pins only after successful restart activation.
  • Reconcile generated public policy pins and durable registry pins during teardown rollback and completed rebuild restoration.
  • Preserve recorded trusted-private pins during restart and restoration without ambient DNS.
  • Normalize a legacy entry that omitted its adapter before applying policy or registering the restored adapter.
  • Generate managed gateway configuration with proxy_connect_by_hostname = false; safely rewrite the exact legacy omitted-default form and refuse an explicit true setting.
  • Record and verify the selected gateway configuration path and SHA-256 identity for standalone and official package-managed service authorities, refusing legacy launches without identity and all unproven, drifted, or foreign runtime state before MCP mutation.
  • Require the proxy-DNS proof before rebuild preparation, absent-sandbox recovery, and abort reattachment can remove policy, detach a provider, scrub an adapter, or restore runtime state.
  • Retain a canonical multi-address recorded public pin set when a singleton DNS response is one known member; reject an unknown singleton without widening the policy and report retained pins on restart.
  • Compare teardown policies through the canonical OpenShell parser so semantically equivalent YAML metadata and formatting do not create false drift, while malformed policy fails closed.
  • Keep regressions behavior-focused across DNS admission, lifecycle drift, pin convergence, adapter normalization, credential non-rotation, gateway authority/configuration drift, and operation ordering.
  • Document the fail-closed public DNS contract, managed gateway requirement, legacy single-pin recovery, and residual rotation boundary for every supported agent variant.

Verification

  • Current-head review repairs: 88 runtime-marker, gateway-security, ownership, and binding CLI tests passed; the state-boundary refactor passed 13 focused tests and repository architecture checks with zero cycles; the inlined lifecycle assertions passed 48 integration tests and 4 marker tests; the restart mutation-order integration suite passed 10 tests; the codebase growth guard passed 33 tests; CLI type-check passed; and the docs build passed with 0 errors and 2 pre-existing Fern warnings.
  • npm run test-size:check - passed 33 growth-guardrail tests.
  • npm run typecheck:cli - passed on the current head.
  • npm run validate:pr - passed on signed current-main head 19a8a62819, including pre-commit, commit-message, and pre-push simulation.
  • Earlier focused DNS admission, restart, destroy, gateway-security, gateway-configuration, service-authority, and documentation suites passed as recorded in the PR timeline.
  • npm run docs - passed with 0 errors and 2 pre-existing Fern warnings.
  • GitHub commit verification - all 29 PR commits, including signed review repairs 978eb93de, d2b916863, a8894ef219, 96d33ffe0, 1b4b7ab1c, and 19a8a6281 plus signed merge heads 658843d18 and 787236baf9, are Verified.
  • Secret scan - the normal pre-commit gitleaks check passed.
  • The broad local changed-test lane was stopped after unrelated first-test timeouts under host-wide parallel Vitest contention; every directly affected suite was replayed serially and passed. GitHub CI is the authoritative broad run.

Review notes

This is a security-sensitive DNS and SSRF boundary. The change keeps exact IP pins in allowed_ips; it adds no hostname-only trust and no per-connection DNS refresh. Singleton public DNS answers and unproven gateway configurations fail before policy or credential mutation. The change corrects an existing managed MCP path and adds no integration or supported product surface.

  • Current-head documentation specialist review pending
  • Result: docs-updated
  • Evidence: The MCP guides document the fail-closed singleton response, addresses returned by one public DNS response, restart and rebuild persistence, the secured managed-gateway requirement, exact address pins, and residual DNS rotation. Local sync and Fern validation passed.
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  • Bug Fixes

    • Public endpoints now reject unknown singleton DNS responses while preserving matching recorded address pins.
    • Restarts and recovery verify credentials, gateway security, and launch configuration before making changes.
    • Unsafe hostname-based proxying, configuration drift, and unverifiable gateway launches are rejected safely.
    • Recovery refreshes validated public address pins and preserves trusted private endpoint support.
    • Legacy single-address registrations are rejected when DNS returns only one address.
    • Managed gateway configuration disables hostname-based proxying and validates configuration identity.
  • Documentation

    • Clarified DNS, gateway-security, and recovery requirements for managed MCP deployments.

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Managed MCP operations now validate launch-bound gateway security before mutation. Public DNS validation preserves matching recorded pins and rejects unknown singleton answers. Restart and rebuild flows refresh policy and registry pins while restoring credentials, adapters, and trusted-private targets.

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Managed MCP security and restoration

Layer / File(s) Summary
Gateway security and configuration identity
src/lib/onboard/..., src/lib/actions/sandbox/mcp-bridge/gateway-security.ts, src/lib/actions/sandbox/mcp-bridge-state.ts, src/lib/actions/sandbox/gateway-target.ts
Generated gateways omit hostname proxy resolution by default. Runtime markers record configuration paths and SHA-256 digests. MCP mutations validate gateway ownership, process state, configuration, and launch identity before mutation.
Public DNS preflight and pin rules
src/lib/actions/sandbox/mcp-bridge-url-validation.ts, src/lib/actions/sandbox/mcp-bridge-provider-inspection.ts, src/lib/actions/sandbox/mcp-bridge-input-targets.test.ts, docs/manage-sandboxes/*.mdx
Preflight uses recorded public pins. A singleton answer retains a complete recorded set only when the answer matches a valid pin. Unknown addresses and invalid legacy singleton registrations remain rejected.
Restart and rebuild restoration
src/lib/actions/sandbox/mcp-bridge-restart.ts, src/lib/actions/sandbox/mcp-bridge-rebuild.ts, test/mcp/mcp-destroy-lifecycle.test.ts, test/helpers/mcp-policy-pins.ts
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Lifecycle validation and operational documentation
src/lib/actions/sandbox/*test.ts, test/mcp/*.test.ts, docs/manage-sandboxes/*.mdx, docs/deployment/set-up-mcp-bridge.mdx
Tests cover security boundaries, mutation ordering, DNS drift, policy-registry consistency, adapter restoration, credential reuse, process environment parsing, and configuration digests. Documentation describes the disabled proxy setting and updated pin recovery behavior.

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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to e6db1

The PR hardens public DNS pinning and managed gateway validation, but some rebuild and recovery paths can still change MCP policy, registry, or adapter state before confirming that hostname-side proxy resolution is disabled. In that condition, outbound traffic may not remain constrained to the validated IP pins, so merge should wait for the recovery paths and gateway-boundary validation to be corrected or explicitly accepted.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant MCPCommand
  participant GatewaySecurity
  participant CredentialResolver
  participant DNSResolver
  participant PolicyRegistry
  MCPCommand->>GatewaySecurity: Validate selected gateway and launch identity
  GatewaySecurity-->>MCPCommand: Return security result
  MCPCommand->>CredentialResolver: Verify stored credentials
  CredentialResolver-->>MCPCommand: Return verification result
  MCPCommand->>DNSResolver: Resolve public targets when required
  DNSResolver-->>MCPCommand: Return validated or retained pins
  MCPCommand->>PolicyRegistry: Apply policy and persist pins
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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly identifies the main change: pinning rotating public DNS answer sets for MCP.
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The changes satisfy issue #10755 by retaining the complete validated multi-address public DNS set in allowed_ips, rejecting unsupported singleton responses, and preserving exact egress enforcement.
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The bounded public-DNS sampling itself is fail-closed and the focused exact-head tests pass (30 URL-target tests and 46 destroy-lifecycle tests). All required CI, DCO, commit verification, CodeQL, CodeRabbit, and nine Advisor jobs are green. Two lifecycle blockers remain: restart installs the newly sampled pins without persisting them, and the updated drift regression is coupled to the three-lookup implementation rather than the protected lifecycle behavior.

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Current-head re-review at 97551ee105cc94a7aea9010ef8a864e5b6ee9405.

The two earlier P1 lifecycle gaps are resolved: public restart now persists the activated pins, and the rebuild-drift regression is behavior-oriented. The complete current diff and all seven changed files are clean, and the nine-category security review found no code blocker.

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  • The fixed three-snapshot window can omit valid rotating DNS answers; see the inline finding.

Validation: npm run build:cli passed; focused CLI tests passed (30/30); focused integration tests passed (49/49). A deterministic A, A, A, B resolver sequence still leaves B unpinned. Requesting changes.

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src/lib/actions/sandbox/mcp-bridge-gateway-security.test.ts (1)

98-101: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Test Podman admission through the real ownership proof.

standaloneOwnershipFailure is mocked to succeed. The test therefore bypasses the canonical configuration and process-identity proof while its title claims to admit a launch-bound gateway. Keep a focused wiring test if needed, but add a public-boundary fixture that uses the real ownership validator and asserts admission.

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In `@src/lib/actions/sandbox/mcp-bridge-gateway-security.test.ts` around lines 98
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Current-head Advisor artifact disposition for run 33607639492:

  • Fixed the two valid Test design findings in 19a8a6281: lifecycle pin contracts are explicit in each scenario, and runtime-marker drift is asserted behaviorally without coupling to diagnostic wording. Focused validation passed 48 lifecycle tests, 4 marker tests, and 33 growth-guard tests.
  • Did not adopt the Operations suggestion to retain a legacy single public pin when DNS returns the same singleton. That state is deliberately unsupported by this PR: a singleton cannot prove a complete rotating public answer set, and accepting it would re-admit the incomplete evidence behind [Ubuntu 26.04][Policy&Network] DNS answer change causes SSRF egress policy to reject a healthy managed MCP connection #10755. The documented recovery is remove/re-add only after a multi-address response can establish the complete pin set; otherwise the public hostname remains fail-closed.
  • Behavior, Code reduction, Dependency use, Design/architecture, Documentation, Migration completion, and Trust reported no required change.

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103-106: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Exercise the Podman ownership refusal through the tested boundary.

Lines 103-106 assert an internal mock call. This does not prove that assertMcpGatewayProxyDnsDisabled refuses a Podman gateway when scoped ownership verification fails. Set processProofs.standaloneOwnershipFailure to an error and assert that the boundary throws.

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-      expect(processProofs.standaloneOwnershipFailure).toHaveBeenCalledWith(
-        {},
-        expect.objectContaining({ stateDir }),
-      );
+      processProofs.standaloneOwnershipFailure.mockReturnValue("process identity does not match");
+      expect(() => assertMcpGatewayProxyDnsDisabled("nemoclaw", 8080)).toThrow(
+        /process identity does not match/,
+      );

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In `@src/lib/actions/sandbox/mcp-bridge-gateway-security.test.ts` around lines 103
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In `@src/lib/state/gateway-runtime/files.test.ts`:
- Line 45: Update the test setup around the openshell-gateway.toml write to call
fs.chmodSync after fs.writeFileSync, explicitly enforcing mode 0o640 regardless
of the process umask.

In `@test/helpers/mcp-policy-pins.ts`:
- Around line 15-18: Update mcpPolicyAllowedIps to validate the parsed policy
and required nested fields before accessing network_policies, the
mcp_bridge_${server} entry, endpoints[0], and allowed_ips. When the content is
empty or the expected policy shape is missing, throw a descriptive error that
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In `@src/lib/actions/sandbox/mcp-bridge-gateway-security.test.ts`:
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Closing this implementation PR. Issue #10755 remains open for triage and a product decision.

What we verified:

  • Main resolves a hostname once, validates every address returned by that DNS response, and pins the returned set in allowed_ips.
  • QA observed separate lookups returning different singleton addresses for the same public hostname. No one lookup reveals the complete rotating set.
  • The first fix sampled a bounded number of DNS responses. A sequence such as A, A, A, B still defeats any fixed sampling window.
  • The later fix rejected all singleton public DNS responses. That prevents the reported failure, but it also rejects legitimate stable single-address public hosts.
  • This PR grew to 36 commits across 34 files, with 1,834 additions and 245 deletions. It now changes DNS admission, restart and rebuild state, gateway configuration identity, proxy behavior, and recovery ordering. That is wider than a scoped bug repair.
  • [Ubuntu 26.04][Policy&Network] DNS answer change causes SSRF egress policy to reject a healthy managed MCP connection #10755 still has the needs: triage label and records the regression as unknown. It has no accepted design record for this DNS policy.

The pending product decision is one of these policies:

  1. Keep initial-response pinning and document rotating singleton DNS as unsupported.
  2. Require an operator-provided stable address set.
  3. Add controlled DNS refresh, with explicit rules for cadence, validation, revocation, DNS rebinding, failure behavior, persistence, and lifecycle recovery.

A replacement PR should start only after #10755 records an accepted choice, accountable owner, placement, and validation plan. That PR can implement the smallest coherent policy with direct regression evidence. A new PR will also avoid carrying the review history for several competing policy approaches.

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Update to the closure record: #10755 now has an accepted maintainer product decision. This supersedes the earlier statement that the policy choice was still pending, but it does not change the decision to close this PR.

The accepted policy is controlled DNS refresh for public managed MCP hostnames at the OpenShell connection boundary:

  • The authorized service identity is the canonical public hostname plus verified TLS.
  • For each new outbound connection, OpenShell resolves once, validates every address in that response, and dials only that same validated address list. Empty, unresolved, mixed, private, local, metadata, special-use, or otherwise blocked responses fail closed.
  • Public runtime-DNS policy does not persist observed public addresses as authority and does not use allowed_ips as a durable public address set. There is no bounded sampling, accumulated union, stale-address fallback, or background refresh.
  • proxy_connect_by_hostname remains disabled so proxy-side DNS cannot bypass the resolve-validate-connect boundary.
  • Trusted-private endpoints and legacy pinned public entries retain exact pins. Existing public entries do not migrate silently; an operator must remove and re-add one to opt into the new mode.
  • Add, restart, and rebuild preserve the explicit policy mode and fail before mutation when the contract cannot be maintained.

The remaining implementation gate is compatibility proof for the pinned OpenShell release. It must demonstrate public-only resolution, validation of every returned address, dialing from the same validated result without a second lookup, hostname TLS verification, credential binding, and enforcement with hostname proxying disabled. If that contract is absent, implementation stops for another product/security decision rather than compensating with NemoClaw-side DNS sampling.

This PR remains the wrong implementation for the accepted policy. It rejects all singleton public responses even though the accepted behavior must allow a stable singleton and later public singleton changes. It also persists/refreshed address pins and grew into gateway identity, proxy, restart, rebuild, rollback, adapter, and recovery changes that the accepted issue decision explicitly excludes. At e6db134, it contains 36 commits across 34 files with 1,834 additions and 245 deletions.

#10755 remains open as the source of truth. A replacement PR should start from current main, first prove the OpenShell compatibility boundary, then add only the explicit public runtime-DNS mode, state round-trip, policy rendering, focused lifecycle handling, documentation, and required deterministic plus live regression evidence recorded in the accepted decision.

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