Adds a new "private" service mode for the reverse proxy: services reachable exclusively over the embedded WireGuard tunnel, gated by per-peer group membership instead of operator auth schemes.
Wire contract
- ProxyMapping.private (field 13): the proxy MUST call ValidateTunnelPeer and fail closed; operator schemes are bypassed.
- ProxyCapabilities.private (4) + supports_private_service (5): capability gate. Management never streams private mappings to proxies that don't claim the capability; the broadcast path applies the same filter via filterMappingsForProxy.
- ValidateTunnelPeer RPC: resolves an inbound tunnel IP to a peer, checks the peer's groups against service.AccessGroups, and mints a session JWT on success. checkPeerGroupAccess fails closed when a private service has empty AccessGroups.
- ValidateSession/ValidateTunnelPeer responses now carry peer_group_ids + peer_group_names so the proxy can authorise policy-aware middlewares without an extra management round-trip.
- ProxyInboundListener + SendStatusUpdate.inbound_listener: per-account inbound listener state surfaced to dashboards.
- PathTargetOptions.direct_upstream (11): bypass the embedded NetBird client and dial the target via the proxy host's network stack for upstreams reachable without WireGuard.
Data model
- Service.Private (bool) + Service.AccessGroups ([]string, JSON- serialised). Validate() rejects bearer auth on private services. Copy() deep-copies AccessGroups. pgx getServices loads the columns.
- DomainConfig.Private threaded into the proxy auth middleware. Request handler routes private services through forwardWithTunnelPeer and returns 403 on validation failure.
- Account-level SynthesizePrivateServiceZones (synthetic DNS) and injectPrivateServicePolicies (synthetic ACL) gate on len(svc.AccessGroups) > 0.
Proxy
- /netbird proxy --private (embedded mode) flag; Config.Private in proxy/lifecycle.go.
- Per-account inbound listener (proxy/inbound.go) binding HTTP/HTTPS on the embedded NetBird client's WireGuard tunnel netstack.
- proxy/internal/auth/tunnel_cache: ValidateTunnelPeer response cache with single-flight de-duplication and per-account eviction.
- Local peerstore short-circuit: when the inbound IP isn't in the account roster, deny fast without an RPC.
- proxy/server.go reports SupportsPrivateService=true and redacts the full ProxyMapping JSON from info logs (auth_token + header-auth hashed values now only at debug level).
Identity forwarding
- ValidateSessionJWT returns user_id, email, method, groups, group_names. sessionkey.Claims carries Email + Groups + GroupNames so the proxy can stamp identity onto upstream requests without an extra management round-trip on every cookie-bearing request.
- CapturedData carries userEmail / userGroups / userGroupNames; the proxy stamps X-NetBird-User and X-NetBird-Groups on r.Out from the authenticated identity (strips client-supplied values first to prevent spoofing).
- AccessLog.UserGroups: access-log enrichment captures the user's group memberships at write time so the dashboard can render group context without reverse-resolving stale memberships.
OpenAPI/dashboard surface
- ReverseProxyService gains private + access_groups; ReverseProxyCluster gains private + supports_private. ReverseProxyTarget target_type enum gains "cluster". ServiceTargetOptions gains direct_upstream. ProxyAccessLog gains user_groups.
- Add GetSelectedClientRoutes() to the route manager that filters through FilterSelectedExitNodes, returning only active routes instead of all management routes
- Use GetSelectedClientRoutes() in the DNS route checker so deselected exit nodes' 0.0.0.0/0 no longer matches upstream DNS IPs — this prevented the resolver from switching
away from the utun-bound socket after exit node deselection
- Initialize iOS DNS server with host DNS fallback addresses (1.1.1.1:53, 1.0.0.1:53) and a permanent root zone handler, matching Android's behavior — without this, unmatched
DNS queries arriving via the 0.0.0.0/0 tunnel route had no handler and were silently dropped
* Fix DNS probe thread safety and avoid blocking engine sync
Refactor ProbeAvailability to prevent blocking the engine's sync mutex
during slow DNS probes. The probe now derives its context from the
server's own context (s.ctx) instead of accepting one from the caller,
and uses a mutex to ensure only one probe runs at a time — new calls
cancel the previous probe before starting. Also fixes a data race in
Stop() when accessing probeCancel without the probe mutex.
* Ensure DNS probe thread safety by locking critical sections
Add proper locking to prevent data races when accessing shared resources during DNS probe execution and Stop(). Update handlers snapshot logic to avoid conflicts with concurrent writers.
* Rename context and remove redundant cancellation
* Cancel first and lock
* Add locking to ensure thread safety when reactivating upstream servers
* Optimize Windows DNS performance with domain batching and batch mode
Implement two-layer optimization to reduce Windows NRPT registry operations:
1. Domain Batching (host_windows.go):
- Batch domains per NRPT
- Reduces NRPT rules by ~97% (e.g., 184 domains: 184 rules → 4 rules)
- Modified addDNSMatchPolicy() to create batched NRPT entries
- Added comprehensive tests in host_windows_test.go
2. Batch Mode (server.go):
- Added BeginBatch/EndBatch methods to defer DNS updates
- Modified RegisterHandler/DeregisterHandler to skip applyHostConfig in batch mode
- Protected all applyHostConfig() calls with batch mode checks
- Updated route manager to wrap route operations with batch calls
* Update tests
* Fix log line
* Fix NRPT rule index to ensure cleanup covers partially created rules
* Ensure NRPT entry count updates even on errors to improve cleanup reliability
* Switch DNS batch mode logging from Info to Debug level
* Fix batch mode to not suppress critical DNS config updates
Batch mode should only defer applyHostConfig() for RegisterHandler/
DeregisterHandler operations. Management updates and upstream nameserver
failures (deactivate/reactivate callbacks) need immediate DNS config
updates regardless of batch mode to ensure timely failover.
Without this fix, if a nameserver goes down during a route update,
the system DNS config won't be updated until EndBatch(), potentially
delaying failover by several seconds.
Or if you prefer a shorter version:
Fix batch mode to allow immediate DNS updates for critical paths
Batch mode now only affects RegisterHandler/DeregisterHandler.
Management updates and nameserver failures always trigger immediate
DNS config updates to ensure timely failover.
* Add DNS batch cancellation to rollback partial changes on errors
Introduces CancelBatch() method to the DNS server interface to handle error
scenarios during batch operations. When route updates fail partway through, the DNS
server can now discard accumulated changes instead of applying partial state. This
prevents leaving the DNS configuration in an inconsistent state when route manager
operations encounter errors.
The changes add error-aware batch handling to prevent partial DNS configuration
updates when route operations fail, which improves system reliability.
Adds a per-instance uint64 hash to DefaultServer to detect identical merged host DNS configs (including extra domains). applyHostConfig computes and compares the hash, skips applying if unchanged, treats hash errors as a fail-safe (proceed to apply), and updates the stored hash only after successful hashing and apply.
* [client] Support Extra DNS Labels for Peer Addressing
* [management] Support Extra DNS Labels for Peer Addressing
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Co-authored-by: Viktor Liu <17948409+lixmal@users.noreply.github.com>
* starting engine by passing file descriptor on engine start
* inject logger that does not compile
* logger and first client
* first working connection
* support for routes and working connection
* small refactor for better code quality in swift
* trying to add DNS
* fix
* updated
* fix route deletion
* trying to bind the DNS resolver dialer to an interface
* use dns.Client.Exchange
* fix metadata send on startup
* switching between client to query upstream
* fix panic on no dns response
* fix after merge changes
* add engine ready listener
* replace engine listener with connection listener
* disable relay connection for iOS until proxy is refactored into bind
* Extract private upstream for iOS and fix function headers for other OS
* Update mock Server
* Fix dns server and upstream tests
* Fix engine null pointer with mobile dependencies for other OS
* Revert back to disabling upstream on no response
* Fix some of the remarks from the linter
* Fix linter
* re-arrange duration calculation
* revert exported HostDNSConfig
* remove unused engine listener
* remove development logs
* refactor dns code and interface name propagation
* clean dns server test
* disable upstream deactivation for iOS
* remove files after merge
* fix dns server darwin
* fix server mock
* fix build flags
* move service listen back to initialize
* add wgInterface to hostManager initialization on android
* fix typo and remove unused function
* extract upstream exchange for ios and rest
* remove todo
* separate upstream logic to ios file
* Fix upstream test
* use interface and embedded struct for upstream
* set properly upstream client
* remove placeholder
* remove ios specific attributes
* fix upstream test
* merge ipc parser and wg configurer for mobile
* fix build annotation
* use json for DNS settings handover through gomobile
* add logs for DNS json string
* bring back check on ios for private upstream
* remove wrong (and unused) line
* fix wrongly updated comments on DNSSetting export
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Co-authored-by: Maycon Santos <mlsmaycon@gmail.com>
