Name every machine after its own MAC address, and drop mDNS

One name for every machine was wrong: an operator with two of them on a
network had one forgefirm.local, and mDNS does not work on many networks
at all. The machine now calls itself forgefirm-<xxxx>, from the last four
hex digits of its WiFi MAC address, and sends that name with its DHCP
request, so a network with dynamic DNS publishes it and a router lists
the machine by name. The name is the same at every boot, two machines
take different names, and no serial number leaves the machine.

forgefirm-hostname (new): reads the wlan0 MAC address (eth0 on a machine
with no WiFi) at S38 in rcS, after udev has probed the network drivers
and before poky's hostname.sh reads the file and before the network
starts. The rootfs is read-only, so the name is written through a
bind-mounted copy under /run/forgefirm. A bounded wait covers a slow
probe. hostname:pn-base-files is "forgefirm": the name before S38, and
the fallback when no MAC address can be read.

avahi is deleted - the bbappend, the daemon configuration, the service
file, the image install and the distro block. The address is the way in
that works on every network, and the DHCP name covers the rest.

forgefirm-banner: the marker lines are gone. "# ForgeFIRM addresses" and
"# end" delimited the address block inside /etc/issue, and getty prints
every line of that file, so both markers were on the console. The script
now keeps the image's own text in a second copy under /run/forgefirm,
captured once per boot before the first write, and renders the whole
banner from it. The block is the addresses alone: no mDNS name.

forgefirm-image.bb: the ForgeFIRM mark, under the OpenGlow one the base
image carries, with the version on the mark's own last line,
right-justified to the mark's last column. The mark is written once and
rendered per reader, because /etc/issue is parsed by busybox getty (a
backslash or a percent sign starts an escape, so the art goes in with
every backslash doubled) while /etc/motd is written out as it is. Widths
are measured in columns, not bytes: the color sequences take no room on
the screen. /etc/issue.net stays unused - the machine tells a client that
has not logged in nothing.

Acceptance: commission.mdns-announce is replaced by
commission.machine-name, which checks the name against the MAC address,
the bind-mounted /etc/hostname, the DHCP client's hostname option, the
banner's addresses, and that no mDNS responder is on the image; it covers
nothing by design, like the test it replaces. forgectrl.auth gains the
own-name Host check and its refusal with a domain on it. image.health
checks the /etc/hostname mount and the version on the mark's last line in
both files. commission.ssh-until-reboot asserts there is no
pre-authentication banner. commission_dark's lens coverage widens to
src/lenshome.* so src/lenshome.h is covered; the lint is clean at 83
tests.

Pins: forgectrl 0.1.14 (9e5330f, the hostname certificate and the Host
rule), meta-openglow ced2af2 (the DHCP hostname option and the motd mark)
in the kas lock.

Proven on the bench reference, hot-deployed and rebooted (image
20260910000208 dev): hostname forgefirm-b00a from MAC 2c:6b:7d:0d:b0:0a,
live and in the bind-mounted file; the DHCP client running with
-x hostname:forgefirm-b00a; the console banner and the motd carrying both
marks with the version aligned to the mark's last column, no marker line
and no .local name; forgectrl regenerating its certificate for the new
name. Host tests: 357 forgetest unit tests, forgectrl clean under
-Werror, tls_test and sanitize_test.
This commit is contained in:
ScottW514
2026-09-10 07:18:27 -04:00
parent d858a23f45
commit f0c40e7d4f
17 changed files with 433 additions and 338 deletions
+43 -4
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@@ -28,6 +28,12 @@ def _wdog1_wcr():
return None
def _plain(line):
"""A line without its ANSI color sequences: what a terminal shows,
counted in columns rather than in bytes."""
return re.sub(r"\x1b\[[0-9;]*m", "", line)
def _read(path, default=None):
try:
with open(path, "r", encoding="utf-8", errors="replace") as f:
@@ -104,7 +110,9 @@ def fds_of(pid):
("grblhal-glowforge", "CMakeLists.txt"), ("kernel-module-glowforge", "**"),
("linux-fslc", "**")],
description="The image that is running is the image the manifest describes, with the "
"kernel options, the module, the pulse ring it maps and the SDMA clocks it holds, "
"version stamped in /etc/forgefirm-version and under the machine mark in the "
"console banner and the motd, "
"the kernel options, the module, the pulse ring it maps and the SDMA clocks it holds, "
"the daemon ownership, "
"the init ordering, the file modes the release depends on, and the mounts: the "
"rootfs read-only, /data writable, the account files and the banner rendered "
@@ -113,11 +121,39 @@ def image_health(ctx):
ev = ctx.evidence
manifest = ctx.runner.manifest
# 1. version stamp
# 1. version stamp: the machine-readable file, and the two a person
# reads - the console banner (/etc/issue, which forgefirm-banner
# renders from the image's own text) and the motd a login prints.
# Each carries the machine mark with the version on the mark's own
# last line, right-justified to the mark's last column.
ver = (_read("/etc/forgefirm-version", "") or "").strip()
ev["forgefirm_version"] = ver
ctx.log("forgefirm-version: %s (manifest: %s)", ver, manifest.version)
ctx.check(ver == manifest.version, "/etc/forgefirm-version %r != manifest %r", ver, manifest.version)
for path in ("/etc/issue", "/etc/motd"):
text = _read(path, "") or ""
ev[path] = text
lines = text.splitlines()
at = [i for i, line in enumerate(lines) if line.rstrip().endswith(ver)]
ctx.check(at, "%s carries no line ending in the version %r", path, ver)
if not at:
continue
i = at[0]
ctx.check(lines[i].rstrip() == lines[i], "%s pads the version line: %r", path, lines[i])
ctx.check(_plain(lines[i]).strip() != ver,
"%s puts the version on a line of its own, not on the mark's last line", path)
# Right-justified to the mark's last column: the stamped line is
# exactly as wide as the widest line above it. Only the motd is
# measured, because /etc/issue holds the mark with its
# backslashes doubled for the getty that reads it, so its bytes
# are wider than the columns a person sees.
if path == "/etc/motd":
above = [len(_plain(line)) for line in lines[:i] if line.strip()]
width = max(above) if above else 0
ev["motd_columns"] = [len(_plain(lines[i])), width]
ctx.check(len(_plain(lines[i])) == width,
"/etc/motd stamped line is %d columns, the mark above is %d",
len(_plain(lines[i])), width)
# 2. kernel options
cfg = kernel_config()
@@ -251,7 +287,8 @@ def image_health(ctx):
# 8. the mounts: the rootfs read-only, /data the writable partition,
# the state a read-only rootfs hands off (the read-only-rootfs image
# feature, forgefirm-users, forgefirm-banner, the sshd host keys). The
# feature, forgefirm-users, forgefirm-hostname, forgefirm-banner, the
# sshd host keys). The
# dev image alone mounts the factory slots under /factory.
mounts = {}
for line in (_read("/proc/mounts", "") or "").splitlines():
@@ -262,7 +299,8 @@ def image_health(ctx):
def mount_opts(path):
return (mounts.get(path) or {}).get("opts") or []
ev["mounts"] = {p: mounts[p] for p in ("/", "/data", "/var/lib", "/etc/passwd", "/etc/issue") if p in mounts}
ev["mounts"] = {p: mounts[p] for p in ("/", "/data", "/var/lib", "/etc/passwd",
"/etc/hostname", "/etc/issue") if p in mounts}
ctx.log("/ mounted %s; /data %s; /var/lib %s", ",".join(mount_opts("/")) or "(absent)",
",".join(mount_opts("/data")) or "(absent)", ",".join(mount_opts("/var/lib")) or "(absent)")
ctx.check("ro" in mount_opts("/"), "the rootfs is not mounted read-only: %s", mounts.get("/"))
@@ -292,6 +330,7 @@ def image_health(ctx):
ctx.check(f in mounts, "%s is not the tmpfs render of the account record", f)
for n in names:
ctx.check(n in passwd_names, "record account %r is missing from /etc/passwd", n)
ctx.check("/etc/hostname" in mounts, "/etc/hostname is not the bind-mounted name copy")
ctx.check("/etc/issue" in mounts, "/etc/issue is not the bind-mounted banner copy")
if hw.pidof("sshd"):
key = "/data/forgefirm/ssh/ssh_host_ed25519_key"