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Summary

  • probe-healthz.sh / probe-edge-ingest.sh: curl rc 6 (and resolve timeouts) now exit 7 (observer cannot resolve name) instead of sharing exit 1 with a dead prod host.
  • Docs updated so the Pi wrapper can page under [cotel-observer-dns] / [cotel-observer-dns-edge] without burning prod streaks or suppressing the other half.
  • Host wrapper ~/ops/cotel-healthz.sh updated in parallel (not in this PR; backup at cotel-healthz.sh.bak-2026-10-14).

Why

On 2026-10-14 a dead Pi resolver produced 65 consecutive "prod red" ticks and hid a real public-ingest outage for ~11 hours (see FLO-1069).

Test plan

  • bash scripts/probe-healthz_test.sh (31 pass)
  • bash scripts/probe-edge-ingest_test.sh (11 pass)
  • Drill 1: unresolvable name → observer alert, prod streak unchanged (3→3)
  • Drill 2: closed port → prod alert as before, observer streak 0
  • Drill 3: green tick clears observer + prod drill streaks / wakes resolve
  • Live --probe-only and one real tick both green

Host follow-up (already applied on the Pi)

~/ops/cotel-healthz.sh + ~/ops/README.md — observer markers/streaks; exit 7 does not suppress edge.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes
    • DNS resolution failures are now reported separately from connection refusals and timeouts, with a distinct exit code and clear error message.
    • A DNS failure in one probe no longer prevents checking the other probe, and DNS-related alerts use separate markers and streaks.
  • Documentation
    • Updated probe guidance to clarify exit codes and note when production was not sampled.

DNS failure on the prober used to share exit 1 with a dead prod host, so the
Pi timer burned the prod streak and paged the wrong alert while public ingest
stayed unwatched. Classify curl rc 6 (and resolve timeouts) as exit 7.

Co-Authored-By: Soren <soren@agents.flopbut.local>
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The LAN health and edge ingest probes now report observer-side DNS resolution failures with exit code 7. Other unreachable outcomes retain exit code 1. Tests and operations documentation describe the distinction and its handling.

Changes: Probe DNS classification

Layer / File(s) Summary
LAN health probe DNS classification
scripts/probe-healthz.sh, scripts/probe-healthz_test.sh, docs/operations/health-probe.md
The LAN health probe returns exit code 7 for curl exit 6 and resolution-related exit 28. Other curl failures retain exit code 1. The test and documentation describe the result, including separate observer-DNS alert markers and continued checking of the other probe half.
Edge ingest DNS classification
scripts/probe-edge-ingest.sh, scripts/probe-edge-ingest_test.sh, docs/operations/health-probe.md
The edge probe returns exit code 7 for curl exit 6 and resolution-related exit 28. Other failures retain exit code 1. The test and documentation describe the distinction.

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Change: Bug fix

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 20ab2

The probes now report observer DNS failures separately from production failures. The new tests can fail in environments that set an HTTP proxy, so set the proxy-bypass variables before merging. The change otherwise looks safe to merge.

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Changed systems: scripts, docs

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  • observed — docs (service) was modified; 1 changed file maps to changed impact.

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  • observed — Modified behavior in docs/operations/health-probe.md: The LAN verdict table adds exit 7 for observer DNS resolution failure, distinguishing it from production being unreachable. The exit 1 description no longer includes the tunnel-not-forwarding case.
  • observed — Modified behavior in docs/operations/health-probe.md: The edge verdict table changes exit 1 to connection refusal or timeout after resolution, removing DNS failure from that verdict, and adds exit 7 when the prober cannot resolve the name before contacting public ingest.
  • observed — Modified behavior in docs/operations/health-probe.md: Documentation adds the observer-DNS handling: exit 7 uses separate alert markers and streaks, reports production state as unknown, and does not prevent the other probe half from being checked.
  • observed — Modified behavior in docs/operations/health-probe.md: The --probe-only exit-code description now includes exit 6 for snapshot failure and exit 7 for observer DNS failure among LAN probe results.
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🟡 Minor · Add edge exit 7 to the exit-code list. · health-probe.md:719-721

docs/operations/health-probe.md:719-721
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Add edge exit 7 to the exit-code list.

The edge verdict table lists observer cannot resolve name as exit 7, but this summary omits it. Add exit 7 here so the two operator references agree.

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Review comment at @docs/operations/health-probe.md around lines 719 - 721:
Update the `probe-edge-ingest.sh` exit-code summary to include exit 7 for
“observer cannot resolve name,” matching the edge verdict table; preserve the
existing meanings for all other exit codes.

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @scripts/probe-edge-ingest_test.sh:
- Around line 145-146: Update the unresolved-host test invoking `$PROBE` with
`no-such-host.invalid.` to set both `NO_PROXY` and `no_proxy` to bypass all HTTP
proxies, while preserving its existing timeout and expected DNS-failure
assertion.

Review comments at @scripts/probe-healthz_test.sh:
- Around line 243-244: Update the `no-such-host.invalid` invocation in the test
to set both `NO_PROXY` and `no_proxy` to `*`, ensuring curl resolves the
hostname locally rather than routing it through an HTTP proxy.

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Review comments at @docs/operations/health-probe.md:
- Around line 719-721: Update the `probe-edge-ingest.sh` exit-code summary to
include exit 7 for “observer cannot resolve name,” matching the edge verdict
table; preserve the existing meanings for all other exit codes.

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The edge exit-code summary omitted 7 while its verdict table listed it, so
the two operator references disagreed. The unresolved-name tests now clear
the proxy variables: with a proxy configured curl hands the name to it and
never returns rc 6, which fails the assertion for a reason unrelated to the
classification under test.

Co-Authored-By: Daedalus <daedalus@agents.flopbut.local>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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