sshd carries the admin SSH keys and now also CA-signed host certificates
(TOFU-less verification via the shared openssh-ca); the users service
generates per-machine root passwords (share = false, no prompts).
Reusable cnx.router.* module for the Topton 1U boxes replacing OPNsense:
PPPoE WAN (optionally VLAN-tagged, AIS: 10, secret credentials incl.
username), VLAN-filtering bridge, nftables NAT/firewall with MSS clamp,
Kea DHCP with per-VLAN lease time, Blocky DNS, DHCPv6-PD, CrowdSec with
the ZeroTier mesh whitelisted, optional Omada controller, ZFS disk.
Fleet baseline rides along: admins sops group is now derived for every
machine in clan.nix (secrets encrypt to it from the first vars generate)
and time sync is chrony everywhere instead of systemd-timesyncd.
Grafana 13 externalised its core data sources; nixpkgs no longer bundles
the Elasticsearch datasource, so every DMARC panel failed with "Plugin not
registered". Load the official Grafana-signed elasticsearch plugin via
declarativePlugins, pin the dmarc-ag/dmarc-fo datasource UIDs (Grafana 11+
resolves datasource template variables by UID, not name), and clear stale
uid-less records left by an earlier deploy.
Bump clan-core and nixos-mailserver to 26.05 (NixOS 26.05) and adapt to
the breaking changes surfaced by nix flake check:
- mesh-hosts/clan.nix: read the new shared, instance-scoped zerotier vars
(zerotier-ip-<machine>-zerotier, zerotier-network-zerotier); admit
external members via the controller's native allowedIds.
- monitoring/server.nix: Grafana lost its built-in secret_key default;
mint one via a clan generator and pass it with $__file{}.
- dns/authoritative.nix: services.resolved.extraConfig removed -> settings.
- mail.nix: SNM cert API change (x509.useACMEHost + acme extraDomainNames)
and accounts/dkim option renames.
- docs: mesh runbook updated for the new var paths and allowedIds.
Deliver cnx.email DMARC aggregate/forensic reports to a dedicated dmarc@cnx.email
mailbox on mx1 and analyze them with parsedmarc on control, storing parsed
reports in a local loopback Elasticsearch and visualizing via the auto-provisioned
Grafana dashboard. parsedmarc fetches the mailbox over IMAPS across the mesh
(mx1.cnx.email pinned to its mesh address so TLS still validates), using a shared
mail-dmarc-cred clan var so mx1's mailserver and control see the same password.
Reflect web01 in the machines table and monitoring scrape list, note Grafana is
now also published publicly via web01's reverse proxy, add the CNX Uptime
dashboard, and document the dedicated acme_mx1/acme_web01 DNS-01 keys.
web01 terminates TLS for grafana.cnx.network and proxies to Grafana on
control over the mesh. Caddy serves a *.cnx.network wildcard cert obtained
via ACME DNS-01, using a dedicated acme_web01 TSIG key scoped on ns1 to
_acme-challenge on the cnx.network zone only. Ports 80/443 are the only
public exposure (80 just redirects); admin and the backend ride ZeroTier.
Also reload Caddy on cert renewal for both web01 and mx1, since both
reference the cert via explicit tls file paths and would otherwise keep
serving a stale cert after a silent renewal.
kurogeek
Berwn