Walk every address the Mac answers on, not just the one in the QR - #237
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Pairing stored one host, and one host is one point of failure: a phone paired over the tailnet keeps a MagicDNS name that stops resolving the moment either device leaves the tailnet — NSURLError -1003, forever — while the same computer sits reachable on the LAN right there. Three pieces, all additive on the wire: - Pairing now hands the phone an ordered candidate list. The sidecar computes [MagicDNS name, LAN addresses, its own mDNS name last] in hostCandidates(); the list rides the QR link as a `hosts` param and the /api/pair redeem response as a `hosts` field. The single-host `address` field stays, older phones ignore the new one, and a saved Connection without `hosts` still decodes. - Late binding on the phone. CandidateRotation (pure, in CompanionCore) walks the list when a stream fails with an address-shaped URLError (-1003/-1004/-1001/-1200) and promotes — and persists — whichever candidate carries a live stream, so the next launch dials the working address first. A 401 never rotates: that is a token problem, and hiding it behind an address walk would mask the real fix. - Errors that say what to do. ConnectionAdvice maps the URLError codes to advice (-1003 names the tailnet possibility, -1004 points at the Companion toggle, -1001 blames the route, -1009 says offline), names the candidate being tried next, and always says the app keeps retrying. Settings additionally gains an Edit address affordance that replaces the host while keeping the pairing and its token. Validated: swift test 106 green (rotation logic mutation-checked both ways), simulator build green, vitest 997 green, typecheck and oxlint clean on every touched file. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
# Conflicts: # companion/src/index.ts
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe companion now discovers and returns ordered fallback hosts during pairing. The web client serializes these hosts into pairing links. The iOS client validates, rotates, promotes, persists, and manually updates connection hosts. ChangesFallback host pairing and failover
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The change improves connection recovery, but pairing can still include an additional Tailscale address that cannot succeed on iOS, causing an unnecessary retry and short delay before the app reaches a usable address. The PR is mergeable with explicit owner follow-up to filter all Tailscale addresses. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Companion
participant PairingLink
participant iOSSession
participant Network
Companion->>PairingLink: Provide ordered fallback hosts
PairingLink->>iOSSession: Encode hosts in pairing data
iOSSession->>Companion: Submit pairing request
Companion-->>iOSSession: Return token and host list
iOSSession->>Network: Dial current host
Network-->>iOSSession: Return stream or address failure
iOSSession->>Network: Dial next host after retryable failure
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In `@companion/src/control.ts`:
- Around line 102-107: Update the address filtering loop in the control flow to
exclude every address in the 100.64/10 tailnet range, rather than only the
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| const tailscale = tailscaleAddress(addresses); | ||
| const out: string[] = []; | ||
| if (tailscale && magicDnsName) out.push(magicDnsName); | ||
| for (const address of addresses) { | ||
| if (address !== tailscale) out.push(address); | ||
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Exclude every tailnet IP candidate.
tailscaleAddress(addresses) returns only the first 100.64/10 address. Line 106 removes that address but retains later tailnet addresses. iOS cannot use plain HTTP for any such address, so a device can waste a failover attempt on a candidate that cannot succeed.
Filter each address by the tailnet range. Add a test with two 100.64/10 addresses.
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for (const address of addresses) {
- if (address !== tailscale) out.push(address);
+ if (!tailscaleAddress([address])) out.push(address);
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| const tailscale = tailscaleAddress(addresses); | |
| const out: string[] = []; | |
| if (tailscale && magicDnsName) out.push(magicDnsName); | |
| for (const address of addresses) { | |
| if (address !== tailscale) out.push(address); | |
| } | |
| const tailscale = tailscaleAddress(addresses); | |
| const out: string[] = []; | |
| if (tailscale && magicDnsName) out.push(magicDnsName); | |
| for (const address of addresses) { | |
| if (!tailscaleAddress([address])) out.push(address); | |
| } |
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In `@companion/src/control.ts` around lines 102 - 107, Update the address
filtering loop in the control flow to exclude every address in the 100.64/10
tailnet range, rather than only the single value returned by
tailscaleAddress(addresses); retain non-tailnet addresses and the magic DNS
candidate, and add coverage for multiple tailnet addresses.
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In plain terms
A phone paired over Tailscale stores the Mac's MagicDNS name — and the moment either device leaves the tailnet, the app dies forever on "A server with the specified hostname could not be found", even though the same Mac is sitting reachable on the LAN. Now pairing hands the phone every address the computer answers on, the app walks that list when a failure is about the address, and the error banner says what to actually check.
How
[MagicDNS name (only while a tailnet address exists), LAN IPv4s, openmausbot-<hash>.local last]— the bare 100.64/10 address is deliberately excluded (iOS ATS can never dial it), and the synthetic .local name is last because it only resolves while the sidecar runs. Rides the QR (hosts=param) and the pair-redeem response additively: old phone + new desktop ignores it, new phone + old desktop behaves exactly as before; old saved connections decode withhosts = niland fall back to[host].CandidateRotation(pure, unit-tested): advance on address-shaped failures only (−1003 cannotFindHost, −1004 cannotConnectToHost, −1001 timedOut, −1200 TLS), wrap past the end (the existing 1→15s backoff paces the laps), promote-on-success persisted so the next launch dials the working address first. A 401 never rotates — that's a token problem every address would repeat; offline never rotates either.Test plan
swift test), +18 new (14 rotation, 4 connection decode/back-compat); app target built viaxcodegen + xcodebuild -sdk iphonesimulator— BUILD SUCCEEDED🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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