Mesh/federation messages between co-located nodes were always falling back to
Tor because the FIPS overlay had no direct peering — every node depended on the
global anchor's spanning tree, and when that anchor link flaps a node is
isolated and all FIPS dials time out. (Diagnosed live on .116/.198: pure-FIPS
direct peering over UDP 8668 fixes it — 2.5ms vs timeout.)
Generalize the manual fix: in the existing 5-min FIPS seed-anchor apply loop,
also auto-connect every federation peer the PeerRegistry knows both a LAN
address AND a FIPS npub for, dialing its FIPS UDP transport (port 8668) at its
LAN IP via the same idempotent `fipsctl connect` path (new
anchors::lan_fips_anchors). This is FIPS's own transport over the LAN — NOT
Tailscale, NOT the HTTP/LAN messaging port. Transient (recomputed each tick from
live mDNS discovery, never persisted) so changing IPs self-correct. Remote peers
with no LAN address are untouched (still routed via the anchor).
Registry Arc hoisted out of the transport-init block so the loop can read
all_peers(). cargo check green.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The whole fleet was silently never reaching the FIPS mesh: the default
public anchor was configured as fips.v0l.io:8668/udp, but the anchor only
answers on TCP/8443. Fix the default to 185.18.221.160:8443/tcp (IPv4
literal — the hostname resolves IPv6-first and the daemon binds v4-only,
which fails the handshake with EAFNOSUPPORT), and auto-seed it in
anchors::load() so every node dials it without operator action (removal
still persists). Proven live on .116: cold start → anchor_connected in
~400ms, anchor became mesh parent.
Wire fips::update::apply() against upstream GitHub releases (stable
channel only): resolve /releases/latest → SHA256-verify the .deb against
checksums-linux.txt → install → restart. dpkg runs via `systemd-run` to
escape archipelago's ProtectSystem=strict sandbox (else /var/lib/dpkg is
read-only), with --force-confold (archipelago manages /etc/fips conffiles)
and --force-downgrade (dev builds sort newer than the stable tag).
Validated live: .116 upgraded 0.3.0-dev -> stable v0.3.0.
Also: standalone fips-ui dashboard app (apps/fips-ui + docker/fips-ui,
static nginx proxying /rpc/v1 same-origin, copiable own-anchor address);
reserve UI port 8336; register fips/fips-ui as platform-managed. Includes
the Lightning wallet cross-origin (CORS) + LND proxy auth + nginx
self-healer fix so the wallet screen connects instead of "failed to fetch".
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds a local seed-anchor list at <data_dir>/seed-anchors.json. Each
entry is {npub, address, transport, label}. On archipelago startup
and every 5 minutes the list is pushed into the running fips daemon
via `fipsctl connect <npub> <addr> <transport>`, so a cluster can
anchor itself independently of the global fips.v0l.io. A flaky or
unreachable public anchor no longer strands a fresh install.
New RPCs:
- fips.list-seed-anchors
- fips.add-seed-anchor (validates npub1… + host:port)
- fips.remove-seed-anchor
- fips.apply-seed-anchors (on-demand re-dial)
New standalone UI card at views/server/FipsSeedAnchorsCard.vue. Not
wired into Home.vue / Server.vue — operator places it per the
entry-point convention.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
