The synthesised agent network gateway service is unconditionally private:
agents reach it over the WireGuard tunnel and are authorised by
ValidateTunnelPeer against the enabled policies' source groups, and its
only target is the cluster itself with DirectUpstream. Only a proxy
running embedded in a netbird client can serve that, which management
already reports per cluster as the `private` capability.
CreateSettings accepted any hostname as proxy_address, so a labeled
bootstrap could pin an account to a cluster that cannot serve its
gateway — another account's BYOP cluster, or one whose proxies are all
centralised. The endpoint assigned at bootstrap is immutable, so the
account is then stuck with a dead gateway until someone deletes and
re-bootstraps the settings row.
Validate the cluster before allocating an endpoint beneath it. Whether
management knows a cluster is decided on its proxy rows, never on how
fresh their heartbeats are: the rows outlive their proxies' liveness, so
a known cluster stays judged as one and has to prove with a live embedded
proxy that it can serve the gateway. Deciding on liveness instead would
let the same centralised cluster pass or fail depending on whether its
proxies had heartbeated in the last couple of minutes, turning "wait for
the proxy to go quiet" into a way to pin the endpoint to a cluster that
can never serve it. Ownership comes from the same time-independent
source, so a foreign cluster stays refused while it is offline.
Only a cluster no proxy has ever declared is still pinnable — that is the
address-first order the dedicated (self-addressed) path documents, and
the one self-hosted setups follow when they configure before deploying.
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