feat(machine): mint a public name, and stop routing on the id

A host's hostname was its primary key. That worked and disclosed three
things it should not have: ids here are monotonic, so an id in a hostname
tells anyone who reads a URL roughly when that machine was registered and
where it falls among its owner's others; an id is the primary key, so a
name that had to change could only change by re-registering the machine,
which is changing its identity to fix its name; and the hostname is also
the OAuth audience and the cookie scope, so the id travelled into redirect
URLs and browser history.

Machines now carry a minted name -- two words and four digits, unique
across the fleet, DNS-safe by construction, which an id was not. The words
are a curated list rather than a dictionary, because every pair is shown to
strangers. Names the fleet's own infrastructure answers on are refused at
mint time: one minted onto the edge's own label would take the published
key path away from every host at once.

Minting retries on the unique index rather than checking first, because two
registrations in the same instant both read "free" and both write. Only a
name collision retries; a duplicate id or secret means something a new name
cannot fix.

The migration adds the column in three steps. Generated as a NOT NULL
column it fails outright against a populated table, and a default would be
worse: every row would share one value on a routing key.
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Wanjohi
2026-09-18 00:36:13 +03:00
parent aecae0c69e
commit cfb8ec26a0
8 changed files with 3371 additions and 12 deletions

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@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ import { Examples } from '../examples.js';
import { fn } from '../fn.js';
import { Member } from '../team/member.js';
import { MachineTable } from './machine.sql.js';
import { Slug } from './slug.js';
/**
* Registered host identity.
@@ -55,6 +56,11 @@ export namespace Machine {
description: 'Human-readable name for the box',
example: Examples.Machine.label
}),
slug: z.string().meta({
description:
'The name this host is reached at, as the first label of its hostname. Minted here, unique across the fleet, and deliberately not the id \u2014 an id is monotonic, cannot be rotated, and would travel into every redirect URL the sign-in produces',
example: Examples.Machine.slug
}),
lastSeen: z.iso.datetime().optional().nullable().meta({
description: 'When this machine last authenticated',
example: Examples.Machine.lastSeen
@@ -111,20 +117,77 @@ export namespace Machine {
Info.pick({ id: true, ownerUserId: true, teamId: true, label: true }),
async (input) => {
const secret = generateSecret();
await Database.use(async (tx) => {
await tx.insert(MachineTable).values({
id: input.id,
ownerUserId: input.ownerUserId,
teamId: input.teamId,
label: input.label,
secretHash: await hashSecret(secret),
lastSeen: null
});
});
return { id: input.id, secret };
const secretHash = await hashSecret(secret);
// The name space holds tens of millions, so a collision is rare
// enough that retrying is cheaper than checking first -- and a
// check-then-insert would be wrong as well as slower, because two
// registrations in the same instant both read "free" and both write.
// The unique index is the thing that actually decides.
for (let attempt = 0; attempt < SLUG_ATTEMPTS; attempt++) {
const slug = Slug.generate();
try {
await Database.use(async (tx) => {
await tx.insert(MachineTable).values({
id: input.id,
ownerUserId: input.ownerUserId,
teamId: input.teamId,
label: input.label,
slug,
secretHash,
lastSeen: null
});
});
return { id: input.id, secret, slug };
} catch (err) {
if (!isUniqueViolation(err)) {
throw err;
}
// Only a name collision is worth another go. A duplicate id
// or secret means something is wrong that a new name cannot
// fix, and retrying would bury it.
if (!isSlugViolation(err)) {
throw err;
}
}
}
throw new VisibleError(
'internal',
ErrorCodes.Server.INTERNAL_ERROR,
'Could not mint an unused hostname for this machine'
);
}
);
/** How many names to try before giving up. See `register`. */
const SLUG_ATTEMPTS = 5;
/** Whether the constraint Postgres refused on was the hostname. */
function isSlugViolation(err: unknown): boolean {
const text = String(
(err as { constraint?: string })?.constraint ??
(err as { cause?: { constraint?: string } })?.cause?.constraint ??
(err as Error)?.message ??
''
);
return text.includes('machine_slug_unique');
}
/** Resolve a hostname label to the machine it names. */
export const fromSlug = fn(Info.shape.slug, async (slug) => {
return Database.use(async (tx) => {
return tx
.select()
.from(MachineTable)
.where(and(eq(MachineTable.slug, slug), isNull(MachineTable.timeDeleted)))
.then((rows) => {
const row = rows.at(0);
return row ? serialize(row) : null;
});
});
});
/**
* Resolve credentials to a machine, or `null`. Looks the row up by id and
* then compares digests, so a wrong id and a wrong secret are refused the
@@ -370,6 +433,7 @@ export namespace Machine {
ownerUserId: input.ownerUserId,
teamId: input.teamId,
label: input.label,
slug: input.slug,
lastSeen: input.lastSeen?.toISOString() ?? null,
endpointId: input.endpointId
};