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Summary

NewConnectedRoundTripper now races every provider that has a mapping for the requested host, and only those. Until now it took whichever front was ready, from any provider, and only found out at RoundTrip that the provider couldn't serve the host.

What happened in the field: in Iran, 98 requests failed with no domain fronting mapping for 'freddie.iantem.io' on provider aliyun.

• The pool's ready queue mixes every provider's fronts, so an aliyun front connected and won kindling's connect race.
• The request was a POST /v1/signal, and kindling sends a POST exactly once. So the race returned the mapping error without trying smart or Soar, even though nothing had been sent.

sequenceDiagram
    autonumber
    participant K as kindling race<br/>race_transport.go
    participant D as domainfront<br/>connected.go
    participant A as aliyun front
    participant R as connected RT<br/>connected.go

    K->>D: connected.go:27<br/>NewConnectedRoundTripper for freddie.iantem.io
    rect rgba(255, 200, 200, 0.3)
        D->>A: connected.go:36<br/>pool.Take returns any ready front 🐛
    end
    A-->>D: TLS connected
    D-->>K: connected, so domainfront wins the connect race
    K->>R: POST /v1/signal, sent once only ⚠️
    R-->>K: connected.go:100<br/>no domain fronting mapping on provider aliyun
    Note over K: POST is single-shot, so the race returns<br/>this error without trying smart or Soar

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Changes

• connected.go:
  • One lane per mapped provider. NewConnectedRoundTripper finds the providers whose mapping covers the host and runs one lane for each. The first front to connect wins. The other lanes are cancelled, and a front that connects anyway is closed and returned to the pool. If the caller's ctx ends first, the call returns at once instead of waiting out a TLS handshake, which runs on its own 5 s deadline.
  • No mapping fails at once. If no provider maps the host, the call fails without dialing, so kindling counts it as a connect failure and moves on to the other transports. An address with no host races every provider, as before.
  • Each lane (connectVia) dials up to maxRetries of its provider's fronts, one at a time:
    • It prefers ready fronts, the ones the crawler has vetted.
    • When none of its provider's fronts are ready, it vets and dials that provider's other fronts itself, most recently successful first. The crawler stops once 4 fronts are ready in total, so every ready front can belong to providers that can't serve the host.
    • It never dials the same front twice.
    • It stops if a config update drops its provider's mapping for the host mid-race.
    • A provider with no test URL can't vet fallback fronts, so its lane ends before the fallback rather than marking those fronts failed.
    • It stops once the client is closed, since fallback fronts skip pool.Take, which is where a closed pool reports it.
  • Fallback fronts are vetted first (dialUnvetted). A front can complete TLS yet refuse to forward, and the winning front carries the request with no retry. So a fallback front must first pass the crawler's check, a POST to the provider's test URL. The lane then dials it again for the caller. Cancelling the race stops a lane waiting on that check.
• front.go:
  • A front is queued in the ready queue at most once. Overlapping connects can fall back to the same front and each return it, and the crawler can vet a front a request is holding. Before, each return added another entry, so readyCount overstated the fronts ready and the crawler stopped replenishing early.
  • Scans of the ready queue are serialized. A scan holds the fronts it skips until it puts them back, so two lanes scanning at once could each miss the other's ready front. TakePreferringUntried takes the same lock.

Verification

• go build ./... and go test -race -count=1 -timeout 60s ./... (CI's commands) pass.
• New tests in connected_race_test.go. Each fails on the code before its fix:
  • SkipsProvidersWithoutMapping
  • FailsAtOnceWhenNoProviderMapsTheHost
  • RacesEveryMappedProvider: one provider's fronts are dead and another has none, and the third provider still wins. It failed about 1 run in 20 without the scan lock and passes 50 of 50 with it.
  • DialsUnvettedFrontsWhenNoneReady
  • DoesNotRedialAFailedFront
  • VetsUnvettedFronts: a front that completes TLS but fails the check can't win.
  • CancelStopsVetting: the race returns within its deadline while the check hangs.
  • CancelDoesNotWaitForHandshake: the race returns within its deadline while a front's TLS handshake hangs.
  • ConnectVia_StopsWhenTheMappingIsGone: a lane whose provider no longer maps the host returns its front and stops.
  • NoTestURLLeavesFrontsAlone: a fallback front isn't marked failed when its provider has no test URL.
  • FrontPool_QueuesAFrontOnce and OverlappingFallbacksQueueOnce: a front returned several times takes one place in the ready queue.
  • ClosedPoolDialsNothing: a closed client vets and dials nothing.

Pre-PR review (local Codex gate)

• Rounds: 4. Final: CODEX GATE: verdict=approve critical=0 important=0 minor=0 reviewed=15
• Exit: approve. Round 4 ran after the user chose the fix for round 3's finding, past the usual 3-round cap.
• Fixed:
  • connected.go:83: a lane could wait forever, because the crawler stops once enough fronts are ready across all providers. Lanes now dial their provider's unvetted fronts.
  • connected.go:93: that fallback could dial a ready front that had just failed, and spend the lane's last attempt on it. Lanes now track the fronts they've tried.
  • connected.go:144: a fallback front could win on its TLS handshake alone, including one the crawler had rejected for failing to forward. Fallback fronts now pass the crawler's check first.
• Dismissed: none

Copilot's first review raised the mid-race mapping change and the handshake wait. Both are fixed in a2c1bbb. CodeRabbit pointed out that fronts were marked failed when the provider had no test URL; fixed in e195849. Copilot's second review found that overlapping users could queue a front twice; fixed in 0dfb93d. Its summary also found that lanes ignored a closed client; fixed in 248a8c8.

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Walkthrough

The connected round tripper now selects providers by the address host and races their connection attempts. Provider lanes choose distinct fronts, verify unvetted fronts, and return the first successful connection. Tests cover provider mapping, front selection, vetting, and cancellation.

Changes: Connected transport selection

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Provider-specific front selection front.go, connected.go, connected_race_test.go	Provider lanes try distinct fronts and verify unvetted fronts. Ready-front scans are synchronized. Tests cover front fallback, vetting, and cancellation.
Host mapping and provider race connected.go, connected_race_test.go	The round tripper selects providers mapped to the address host, or all providers when no host is available. It races provider lanes and returns the first successful transport. Tests cover mapping and races across providers.

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Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Caller
  participant NewConnectedRoundTripper
  participant providersMapping
  participant connectVia
  participant frontPool
  participant dialUnvetted
  Caller->>NewConnectedRoundTripper: provide addr and context
  NewConnectedRoundTripper->>providersMapping: select providers for host
  NewConnectedRoundTripper->>connectVia: start provider lanes
  connectVia->>frontPool: select a provider front
  opt Front is unvetted
    connectVia->>dialUnvetted: verify front before caller dial
  end
  connectVia-->>NewConnectedRoundTripper: return transport or error
  NewConnectedRoundTripper-->>Caller: return first successful transport

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A provider without a test URL can incorrectly lose cached front-success state. This is a bounded issue that should be fixed or accepted by the owner before merging.

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🟡 Changes recommended

Configuration refreshes can invalidate provider selection, and stalled TLS handshakes can delay cancellation.

2 open issues

• Retain validated provider snapshot across concurrent dialing · New
• Honor cancellation while waiting for TLS dial results · New

What changed in this PR

This PR makes connection selection host-aware, racing only providers that can serve the requested host to avoid mapping failures after a transport wins.

Changes:

• Race mapped providers independently and fail immediately when none match.
• Vet fallback fronts before use and avoid retrying failed fronts within a lane.
• Serialize ready-queue scans and add regression tests for provider selection, fallback vetting, and cancellation.

File	Description
front.go	Serializes ready-queue scans and adds filtered front selection.
connected.go	Implements host-aware provider racing and vetted fallback dialing.
connected_race_test.go	Adds coverage for mapping selection, racing, fallback behavior, and cancellation.

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🟡 Changes recommended

Concurrent fallback calls can duplicate ready entries, and pending connection races no longer observe pool shutdown.

1 open issue

• Reserve fallback fronts to prevent duplicate ready entries · New

1 previously missed issue

In code that hasn't changed since last review

Handle pool closure during fallback connection attempts

connected.go:68

When the ready queue is empty, the previous pool.Take(ctx) also waited on pool.closed. Neither the fallback lanes nor this result wait observes that signal now, so Client.Close() during a connection attempt no longer releases the waiting caller: fallback vetting/dialing can continue until its deadline and can return a live transport after shutdown. Please handle pool closure here by cancelling the lanes and draining their outstanding results, as on caller cancellation.

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• Honor cancellation while waiting for TLS dial results
• Retain validated provider snapshot across concurrent dialing

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🟢 Approval recommended

No unresolved blocking issues remain in provider selection, fallback vetting, queue synchronization, or cancellation cleanup.

1 open issue

• Reserve fallback fronts to prevent duplicate ready entries

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Provider lanes bypass the pool’s shutdown signal, allowing new connections after the client is closed.

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1 previously missed issue

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Honor pool closure before dialing fallback candidates

connected.go:104

The new lane bypasses pool.Take, so it no longer observes pool.closed. With an empty ready queue, calling Client.Close() and then NewConnectedRoundTripper now vets/dials the retained candidates instead of returning cancellation; a successful fallback can even return a new transport after shutdown. Check the pool's closed signal before selecting or dialing each candidate so shutdown still prevents these connections.

1 resolved since last review

• Reserve fallback fronts to prevent duplicate ready entries

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connected.go:104, honor pool closure before dialing fallback candidates (from the "In code that hasn't changed since last review" section of Copilot's summary): fixed in 248a8c8. Each lane now checks pool.isClosed() before every attempt. Once the client is closed, the lane returns context.Canceled, the same error Take reports, and selects, vets and dials nothing. TestNewConnectedRoundTripper_ClosedPoolDialsNothing closes the pool with only an unvetted front available and checks that the call fails with context.Canceled without vetting the front. It fails without the check.

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🟢 Approval recommended

No unresolved blocking issues remain, and targeted regression tests cover the principal connection-racing and pool-management failure paths.

No open issues 🎉

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