svc-net-tor aborts at roles/svc-net-tor/tasks/router.yml:2 when networks.internet.dns is empty, and rightly so: dnsmasq runs with no-resolv, so an empty upstream leaves the node answering .onion and nothing else. That value is set in exactly two places, both under inventories/development/, and the documented production path reaches neither - the provisioner writes no networks key at all. A reader following the role README verbatim therefore cannot deploy a Tor node.
CI has been proving this since 2026-08-31 without anyone seeing it: the README replay rides on the role's smallest variant and is skipped when the deploy is red, so the only row that ever reached it is one where svc-net-tor itself went green. That happened first on Ubuntu, where the local-service defect abb6f37297 fixes never fired.
The template now emits the DNS assignment, the -e passthrough and the networks entry in --vars for a role whose tasks name networks.internet.dns, which today is svc-net-tor alone; the generator derives that rather than taking a declaration, so a second role asking for the value documents it by doing so. scripts/github/guide/compose_deploy.sh substitutes the placeholder from INFINITO_DNS_IP, the same SPOT inventories/development/default.yml reads, next to the existing domain substitution.
This follows 972596a758, which added the administrator key to the same block for the same reason. No fallback inside the role: defaulting to NETWORK_PUBLIC_DNS_RESOLVERS would route a Tor node's clearnet queries to Cloudflare without the operator choosing it, which is what the assert exists to prevent.
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The Production block never set one. inventory provision writes only
ansible_connection for a local host, so DOMAIN_PRIMARY stayed at the
group_vars default of infinito.localhost and the deployment served a zone its
own resolver knows nothing about. CoreDNS templates answers for
INFINITO_DOMAIN_RE and nothing else, so every lookup of the deployment's own
name came back NXDOMAIN.
Mastodon is where that surfaced. tootctl accounts create validates the address
through EmailMxValidator, which resolves MX and then, for the domain itself,
A and AAAA. All six queries returned NXDOMAIN in run 33574056480, the
validator recorded email :unreachable, and the admin account was never created.
Only the guide rows were affected: the matrix rows write
DOMAIN_PRIMARY: "{{ lookup('env', 'INFINITO_DOMAIN') }}" into their host_vars
and resolve fine.
The template now carries DOMAIN=<your-domain> in both the host and the
container form and threads it into --vars, with the container form passing it
through the docker run boundary as well. The two guide runners substitute it
the way they already substitute the SSH key, so the replay deploys under
INFINITO_DOMAIN like every other CI deploy. compose_deploy.sh moves its env
load ahead of the substitutions to have the value; host_deploy.sh had no env
load at all.
A production reader is asked for a domain now instead of silently inheriting
infinito.localhost, which no real deployment wants either. The shipped default
keeps its value: sys-svc-nss documents that *.localhost resolves through the
myhostname NSS module without any zone, and host-side tasks lean on it.
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host_deploy.sh drops its bespoke dump: the EXIT trap now runs
utils/diagnostics/container.py on failure before removing the boot
container, because the workflow's failure() collect step only fires
after this script has already torn the container down. That yields the
full snapshot (logs, inspect, in-container systemctl and journal, DiD
recursion) instead of three ad-hoc files, and successful runs skip the
capture entirely.
The compose-mode README replay moves out of test-guide.yml into
scripts/github/guide/compose_deploy.sh unchanged; the workflow step
becomes a one-liner.
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