Milestone 5: metered awareness, DSCP, systemd, man pages, packaging
Metered detection polls NetworkManager's Metered property over D-Bus (feature "metered", default on; builds without D-Bus via no-default-features). While metered the daemon closes incoming blob connections and defers every fetch; VARDE_FORCE_METERED=true forces the state as a kill switch and test hook. Endpoint UDP sockets get DSCP CS1 best-effort by matching bound ports to /proc/net/udp inodes (iroh hides its fds). systemd socket activation adopts LISTEN_FDS fd 3, readiness is a hand-rolled sd_notify READY=1 (abstract + path sockets), and standalone binding still works unchanged. dist/ ships hardened system and user units (DynamicUser, ProtectSystem=strict, StateDirectory, RestrictAddressFamilies), a commented config example, scdoc man pages validated with scdoc, and an untested PKGBUILD skeleton. Tests: activation-socket round trip via a real fd-3 handoff, READY=1 received on a NOTIFY_SOCKET, metered daemons neither serve nor fetch. Dependencies: zbus (optional, feature-gated D-Bus client for the NetworkManager metered flag). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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# Milestone 5 — Citizenship
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## What landed
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- **Metered awareness** (`metered` feature, default on): NetworkManager's
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`Metered` property is polled over D-Bus every 30 s; while metered (or
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guessed metered) the daemon serves nothing (connections closed at
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accept) and defers every fetch. Pins stay recorded; mdns
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re-announcements retrigger auto-sync once unmetered. Builds without
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D-Bus via `--no-default-features` (always unmetered then).
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`VARDE_FORCE_METERED=true` forces the state — a manual kill switch and
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the test hook.
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- **DSCP CS1** on the endpoint's UDP sockets, best effort. iroh does not
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expose its socket fds, so we match the endpoint's bound ports against
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`/proc/net/udp{,6}` inodes and walk `/proc/self/fd` — Linux-only like
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the daemon itself. Failures are logged at debug and ignored, as the
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spec allows.
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- **systemd socket activation**: `LISTEN_FDS` (fd 3) is adopted when
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present, otherwise the daemon binds its own socket — non-systemd
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distros work identically. Readiness is signaled with a hand-rolled
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`sd_notify(READY=1)` (abstract and path sockets), no libsystemd
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dependency. Activation sockets are not unlinked at shutdown; systemd
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owns them.
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- **dist/**: hardened system units (`DynamicUser`, `ProtectSystem=strict`,
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`StateDirectory`/`RuntimeDirectory`, `NoNewPrivileges`, restricted
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address families and syscalls), user units, commented example
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`config.toml`, scdoc man pages (`varde.8`, `varde-ctl.1`, validated
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with scdoc), and an explicitly untested `PKGBUILD` skeleton for Arch.
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## Decisions
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- **Type=notify + Requires=varde.socket** so systemd tracks readiness
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precisely and activation works out of the box; the same binary still
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runs under `ExecStart` alone.
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- **Metered gating sits at the two choke points** (connection accept,
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fetch queue) rather than inside the rate limiter, so the posture is
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binary and auditable: metered ⇒ zero bytes moved, period.
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- **Polling NM instead of subscribing to PropertiesChanged**: 30 s of
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staleness is acceptable for a background mirror and the code stays
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~40 lines with graceful degradation when NM or D-Bus is absent.
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- `varde-ctl` already had `--json` and human output from milestone 1;
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the polish here was man-page coverage of every command.
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