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Will Pfleger 5b433d9292 feat(relay): resolve NIP-FI issuer bindings from the database (#8377)
Stack: #8372 (merged) → this PR → #8399 → #8401

Makes relay login checks read the per-community NIP-FI issuer bindings
that #8372 stores. Without this, the relay can't keep up with bb-public,
where new communities are created at every signup and a static
`BUZZ_NIP_FI_COMMUNITIES` list won't do.

**Source switch.** `BUZZ_NIP_FI_COMMUNITY_SOURCE=database` resolves each
community's trusted issuers from `community_nip_fi_issuers`, filtered by
the issuer registry, instead of the static list. Each community gets its
own policy ID: the base ID no longer hashes every community audience,
and the final ID hashes the base plus this community's audience, so
policy IDs change once (see `docs/operator-nip-fi-bindings.md`).
`Config::from_env` refuses to start, in every mode, on an unknown
source, on `database` together with `BUZZ_NIP_FI_COMMUNITIES`, and on
`database` without `BUZZ_NIP_FI_PROVISION_BINDING`.
`BUZZ_NIP_FI_RESOLVER_*` and `BUZZ_NIP_FI_SNAPSHOT_*` are validated in
every mode, so a bad value fails the deploy that sets it. In `off` mode
no resolver is built and no snapshot is loaded.

**Resolver (`nip_fi_resolver.rs`).**
- **Snapshot:** each pod loads every binding into memory, capped at
`BUZZ_NIP_FI_SNAPSHOT_MAX_ROWS` (going over is a failed load). It
refreshes every 30 s, start to start, with jitter that only shortens the
delay and backoff after failures. Each attempt is limited by
`BUZZ_NIP_FI_SNAPSHOT_REFRESH_TIMEOUT_MS`, which must be shorter than
the interval. A refresh whose deadline passes before it publishes
publishes nothing. The old snapshot is dropped off the runtime.
- **Freshness:** a host in a snapshot loaded under two minutes ago is
answered from memory. Any other host, and every host once the snapshot
is stale, goes to a live lookup. Every answer carries a deadline two
minutes after the read behind it started, and WS, HTTP and audio recheck
it just before admitting.
- **Live lookups:** bounded and single-flight. In-flight lookups are
capped by `BUZZ_NIP_FI_RESOLVER_MAX_INFLIGHT` (default 8, clamped below
the database pool size), and the pending hosts and their waiters have
fixed caps. Positive answers are used for that admission only. A "not
found" is cached for 5 s, up to
`BUZZ_NIP_FI_RESOLVER_NEGATIVE_CACHE_MAX` hosts, and only when no
snapshot was published and no binding was created while it ran. A lookup
that panics still leaves the pending map.
- **Removal:** a removed binding stops admitting new connections within
30 s plus the refresh timeout (40 s by default) while refreshes succeed,
and within two minutes of the last good load while they fail. Open
WebSocket sessions are not rechecked when a binding is removed; they end
at their own session deadline.

**Shadow mode** resolves through the same path as enforce, including the
database lookup and the freshness rules. It keeps the resolved binding's
deadline and checks it at the same point as enforce; a binding that goes
stale during the tenant lookup is recorded as `stage=deadline,
outcome=unavailable`, without changing the legacy response or closing
the socket. With `source=database` its `community` metric label is only
`bound` or `unmapped`; with `source=env` it keeps the existing
per-community audience label, so current shadow dashboards are
unchanged. Each request resolves its Host once: the router guard's
resolution, failures included, is reused by shadow recording and
admission.

**Provisioning.** Both operator provisioning paths drop this pod's
cached "not found" for the new host after a commit that bound issuers,
so the creator's first login looks it up.

**Startup and readiness.** With `source=database` and a mode other than
`off`, the first snapshot loads before any listener binds, under its own
startup phase `nip_fi_snapshot_load`. A failed load exits non-zero, so a
pod is never ready without a snapshot. **Operational consequence:** boot
already fails when the database is unreachable; what is new is that a
snapshot over `BUZZ_NIP_FI_SNAPSHOT_MAX_ROWS` or a load past its timeout
also crash-loops new pods. After two minutes the old pods' snapshots go
stale and most logins fall through to the 8-slot live lookup, which
sheds the rest with 503. The way out is raising the cap or timeout, or
`mode=off`.

**Metrics.** `buzz_nip_fi_binding_snapshot_*` covers loads, failures,
rows and freshness.
`buzz_nip_fi_binding_snapshot_loaded_timestamp_seconds` is written on
every refresh attempt, so alert on `time() - x > 120` together with
`absent(x)`. `buzz_nip_fi_binding_snapshot_rows` against
`buzz_nip_fi_binding_snapshot_max_rows` gives the headroom to the row
cap. `buzz_nip_fi_resolver_*` covers live lookups and the negative
cache. The env vars and alerts are documented in `.env.example`, the
chart README and `docs/operator-nip-fi-bindings.md`, which also has the
staged off → shadow → enforce rollout for `source=database` with
go/no-go signals at each step, and the over-cap and load-timeout failure
modes with their ways out.

**Regression coverage.** Router-level tests run the database resolver
through the real `build_router` for root WS, audio and protected HTTP,
in enforce and shadow mode. Over PostgreSQL and Redis, two pods using
the env community source (two exact bindings) replay assertions retained
from before a disconnect through a real root NIP-42 session, the audio
deny-set check and signed NIP-98 requests: they are denied on both pods,
and a root session upgraded before the disconnect is refused by the
post-registration deny-set check. Postgres tests in `buzz-db` check that
archived and quiescing communities, and issuers missing from the
registry, never reach the snapshot or the live lookup. Process-level
`boot_lifecycle` tests spawn the real relay with `source=database`: an
over-cap or timed-out startup load exits non-zero with no health
listener bound, and a loadable snapshot lets readiness turn ready.

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Signed-off-by: Will Pfleger <pfleger.will@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Hayt <211b96e6a2b7f45fd4047988976c7bbbeeda0c15f3ae7b32eec20834b5a55118@buzz.block.builderlab.xyz>
Co-authored-by: Duncan <dcfd242e557282d7a1e2cf2e6877522682f1e5c6156dc92ca7d90eaedd3b0f95@buzz.block.builderlab.xyz>
2026-10-19 10:32:18 -04:00
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