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The ana-docker instance was returning zero results for every query while reporting healthy — 4.5 months stale (2026.4.17 against a current 2026.9.3), its engine scrapers rotted against sites that had changed. /healthz proves the web app answers and says nothing about whether search works, so seven days of green sat on top of a search box that found nothing. Moved to nh3-docker rather than updated in place, because the colo egress is the other half of the problem: 38.120.12.42 is a datacenter address that DuckDuckGo and Startpage CAPTCHA, while nh3-docker egresses residentially at 70.230.226.88. Same reasoning as the fleet's residential proxy for yt-dlp, applied at the source instead of around it. Config corrected along the way: base_url said searxng.pfi.local, a name retired on 2026-08-19, while the environment said something else — the env won so nothing broke and the file quietly lied. The karmasearch.videos removal key never matched, because the engine's real name has a space. scripts/searxng-health.sh asserts results > 0 across three unrelated queries. That is the check that would have caught this, and the only kind that can: the mechanism was healthy throughout. services/searxng-mcp exposes it as `web_search` at user scope, so every Claude Code session has it. Zero results raise rather than returning an empty list — an empty list is indistinguishable from a broken aggregator, which is precisely how this hid. Old instance stopped and removed; DNS alias repointed to searxng.nh3.internal.
80 lines
2.9 KiB
YAML
80 lines
2.9 KiB
YAML
# SearXNG — PFI fleet meta-search. Deployed on nh3-docker (10.100.50.40:9996).
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#
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# ⚠ WHY NH3 AND NOT THE COLO. Measured 2026-09-03:
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# ana-docker egress 38.120.12.42 (datacenter) -> DuckDuckGo + Startpage CAPTCHA
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# nh3-docker egress 70.230.226.88 (residential) -> no CAPTCHA
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# Search engines gate datacenter ranges. Same reason the fleet keeps a
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# residential SOCKS5 egress proxy on nh3-dev for yt-dlp. Running the search
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# aggregator from a residential-egress site removes the problem at the source
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# rather than proxying around it.
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use_default_settings:
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engines:
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remove:
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# Onion engines: no Tor proxy is configured here, so they only ever
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# contribute timeouts.
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- ahmia
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- torch
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# ⚠ Removal keys must match the engine's REAL name, spaces and all.
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# `karmasearch.videos` (dotted) did NOT match on the old instance and the
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# engine kept appearing in unresponsive_engines despite being "removed".
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# The name is "karmasearch videos".
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- karmasearch
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- karmasearch videos
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general:
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instance_name: "SearXNG"
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instance_about_url: false
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contact_url: false
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debug: false
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# Public metrics page off — smaller attack surface on an unauthenticated
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# internal service.
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enable_metrics: false
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search:
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safe_search: 0
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autocomplete: ""
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default_lang: "auto"
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# `json` is what makes this usable as a tool rather than only a web page.
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# Removing it breaks every non-browser consumer, including Claude sessions.
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formats:
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- html
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- json
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# 3s is too tight for slower engines; 8s covers them without hanging the UI.
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request_timeout: 8.0
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# Ban an engine only briefly when it raises suspended-time. The default 86400
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# means one bad afternoon silences an engine for a day.
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ban_time_on_fail: 60
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max_ban_time_on_fail: 600
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server:
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# secret_key comes from SEARXNG_SECRET in the environment — never hardcode it
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# here. Generated + vaulted at nh3-docker/searxng-secret.
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bind_address: "0.0.0.0"
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port: 8080
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# Enable ONLY with a limiter.toml AND a proxy that forwards X-Real-IP;
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# otherwise it logs "X-Forwarded-For nor X-Real-IP header is set!" forever.
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limiter: false
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public_instance: false
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# ⚠ Kept in sync with BASE_URL in compose.yaml. The old instance still said
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# `https://searxng.pfi.local/` here — a name retired on 2026-08-19 — while the
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# environment said something else. The env wins, so nothing broke, and the
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# file quietly lied to everyone who read it.
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base_url: "http://10.100.50.40:9996/"
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method: "GET"
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compression: true
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image_proxy: false
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# Outgoing pool — low-traffic private instance.
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outgoing:
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request_timeout: 6.0
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max_request_timeout: 12.0
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pool_connections: 100
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pool_maxsize: 20
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enable_http2: true
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# No proxy needed: this host already egresses residentially (see header).
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# If that ever changes, the fleet's NH3 SOCKS5 proxy is the fallback:
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# proxies:
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# all://:
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# - socks5h://10.100.10.50:1080
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