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fix(connect): T3 Connect recovers when its tunnel is routed to a dead local port - #24247
T3 Connect was down for 26 hours on a service-managed Linux host. The server listened on 3773, but the ingress the relay pushed to cloudflared pointed at 127.0.0.1:46169, a port nothing listened on. Every request failed with "connection refused" until a restart re-registered the real port. This happened on a build that already includes the ownership lock from https://git.cafe/pingdotgg/t3code/issues/7458, so some other process with the environment's credentials still registered a foreign origin. The trace that would name it had rotated out. Whatever the trigger, the owning server never noticed that its tunnel pointed elsewhere.
Only the server that holds the T3 home runs the connector, so its own listen origin is always the correct ingress. The server now reads the ingress cloudflared received (/config, which it already polls for the hostname) once a minute. When the hostname rule's service names a different origin, it registers its origin again through the existing registerManagedTunnelRecovery path, and the relay's reconcileOrigin pushes the corrected ingress. Consecutive mismatches double the wait up to 30 minutes, so a relay that can't fix it isn't asked every minute. A match resets the wait to one minute.
The fix itself goes through the relay. Behind a TLS-inspecting proxy, the bundled runtime rejects the relay's certificate (https://git.cafe/pingdotgg/t3code/issues/23408), so the server still detects and logs the mismatch, since /config is local, but each re-registration fails until https://git.cafe/pingdotgg/t3code/pulls/23424 lands. The backoff limits those failed attempts to one every 30 minutes.
Evidence
boot-service.log: the service started on 3773 at 12:17:12 PT and connected. The first originService=http://127.0.0.1:46169 ... connection refused came at 12:47:12. 1,888 such lines through 15:08 the next day. No relay client restart, relink, or recovery appears in between.
The live cloudflared /config on the same host after the restart: {"hostname": "<endpoint>", "service": "http://127.0.0.1:3773"}. That's the field the check reads.
vp test run apps/server/src/cloud/managedTunnelStartup.test.ts apps/server/src/cloud/ConnectReachability.test.ts: 11 passed. The new tests cover re-registering on a foreign port, ignoring a matching or unknown ingress (including a trailing-slash form), surviving a failed registration, and the backoff (registrations at minutes 1, 3, 7, 15 while the mismatch persists).
tsc --noEmit for apps/server passes.
Not checked: an end-to-end run against the hosted relay with a deliberately stolen origin. I didn't want to point production relay state at a test port.
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The relay routes a managed tunnel to the origin its environment registered
last. When another process with the same environment credentials registers
its own port and exits, the server that owns the tunnel keeps a healthy
connector whose every request fails with "connection refused" on the dead
port. Nothing re-registered until the server restarted.
The owner now reads the ingress cloudflared received every minute. When it
names an origin other than the one this server listens on, the server
registers its origin again. Repeated mismatches back off to 30 minutes so a
relay that cannot fix it is not asked every minute.
Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — This is a localized T3 Connect reliability fix that detects stale cloudflared origins and reuses the existing registration path to restore the current server’s tunnel. Normal matching or unknown ingress remains unchanged, and the new recovery loop is bounded with backoff and targeted tests.
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The server exposes the connector’s ingress service as an origin and watches for differences from its local origin. When the watcher detects a mismatch, it attempts managed-tunnel recovery. The watcher increases the interval between repeated attempts, up to 30 minutes.
ConnectorFacts now includes a nullable origin. Connector inspection selects the service from the first ingress rule with a hostname, or returns null when metrics are unavailable. Test fixtures include the new field.
Watch and recover mismatched origins apps/server/src/cloud/managedTunnelStartup.ts, apps/server/src/server.ts, apps/server/src/cloud/managedTunnelStartup.test.ts
The server starts a scoped watcher that polls the connector origin. An unreadable ingress preserves the current wait, and a matching origin resets it to one minute. For a mismatch or an unparseable origin, the watcher attempts registration and increases the wait between attempts up to 30 minutes. The server requests endpoint recovery when registration reports recovery_required. Tests cover matching, unknown, mismatched, and failed-registration cases.
sequenceDiagram
participant Server as server.ts
participant Watcher as watchManagedTunnelOrigin
participant Registration as managed-tunnel registration
Server->>Watcher: Start scoped watcher with local origin
Watcher->>Server: Read connector ingress origin
Server-->>Watcher: Return origin or null
Watcher->>Watcher: Compare ingress and local origins
Watcher->>Registration: Register after origin mismatch
Registration-->>Server: Return registration result
Server->>Registration: Request endpoint recovery when required
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Possibly related issues
pingdotgg/t3code#27952 — The PR detects live ingress origin drift and attempts re-registration. The relay-side reconcileOrigin change described by the issue is not included.
pingdotgg/t3code#21521 — The PR uses the managed-tunnel recovery registration path, but does not change its authorization behavior.
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Merge Risk: Low · previous review 48a0a
The watcher recovers the usual dead-port case. If the connector config has drifted to include a preceding wildcard or path-restricted hostname rule, the watcher can misread the origin and leave the public hostname broken. Select the rule by the managed public hostname before merging, or accept this as a known limitation.
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The title clearly and concisely describes the primary change: recovery when a T3 Connect tunnel points to a dead local port.
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Issue [#24243] requires recovery without a server restart when the managed tunnel routes to another local origin. watchManagedTunnelOrigin checks the connector ingress after each interval, compares …
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The changes stay within [#24243]. ConnectorFacts exposes the cloudflared ingress origin, watchManagedTunnelOrigin implements detection and backoff, and server.ts connects recovery registration t…
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Issue [#24243] requires recovery without a server restart when the managed tunnel routes to another local origin. watchManagedTunnelOrigin checks the connector ingress after each interval, compares normalized origins, and re-registers the local origin on a mismatch. The server starts this watcher for the managed connector. The watcher ignores a null ingress, resets to one-minute checks after a match, and backs off mismatches up to 30 minutes. The added tests cover foreign, matching, unknown, failed-registration, and backoff cases. The reported TLS-inspection limitation and missing hosted-relay test do not negate the local implementation requirement.
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The changes stay within [#24243]. ConnectorFacts exposes the cloudflared ingress origin, watchManagedTunnelOrigin implements detection and backoff, and server.ts connects recovery registration to the managed connector lifecycle. Fixture updates support the changed connector shape. No unrelated change is demonstrated.
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Review comments at @apps/server/src/cloud/managedTunnelStartup.ts:
- Around line 254-255: Update the wait handling in the `ingressOrigin` check so
an unknown origin (`null`) leaves the existing backoff unchanged; reset `wait`
to `MANAGED_TUNNEL_ORIGIN_CHECK_INTERVAL` only when `sameOrigin` confirms a
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- Line 260: Update the warning that logs ingressOrigin and options.localOrigin
to avoid recording either full URL; log only a bounded protocol-and-host
representation or a normalized mismatch category, excluding credentials and
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- Line 902: Update the `watchManagedTunnelOrigin` flow to preserve the result
from `registerManagedTunnelRecovery` and call `endpointRuntime.requestRecovery`
when its status is `"recovery_required"`. Keep handling of other registration
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The origin watcher reset its backoff whenever the connector config could
not be read, logged the raw ingress URL, and dropped a recovery_required
registration instead of requesting tunnel recovery like the other
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Server listening on *:3773; nothing listening on 3774.
cloudflared (managed, 2026.10.4, started 17:19:40 local) has 4 ready connections. Its /config ingress for the hostname rule is http://127.0.0.1:3774.
cloudflared_tunnel_request_errors = cloudflared_tunnel_total_requests = 114, and the public hostname returns 502.
cloud-endpoint-confirmed-origin.bin holds {"localHttpHost":"127.0.0.1","localHttpPort":3773}, last written at 13:58 local, when today's server started. As far as I can tell from CloudLink.ts, the marker is only written after the relay confirms an origin. So the relay seems to have accepted 3773 at startup, yet the ingress cloudflared now has says 3774.
I couldn't find what put 3774 back. The traces from that window have rotated out. The only other 3774 on this machine is an earlier desktop backend run that fell back to it (server-child.log, 2026-10-21: port=3774). The stored managed-tunnel runtime config dates from 2026-10-29 03:55. That matches your note that some other registration can point the ingress at a foreign origin.
Why self-heal can't work here yet. Every request to relay.t3.codes in the server traces I examined (about 16:45–20:45 local) fails TLS (unable to verify the first certificate). Threat Protection re-signs the relay's certificate, and the bundled runtime doesn't trust the OS store (#23408 / #23424). This PR corrects the port through registerManagedTunnelRecovery, which calls the relay. So behind TLS inspection, the mismatch would be detected and the re-registration would keep failing until #23424 lands. It might be worth noting that dependency in the PR.
One more effect of the TLS failure: ConnectReachability's own probe of the public hostname fails TLS too. So it reports "The T3 Connect address did not answer from this machine" instead of the 502 / origin_unreachable diagnosis that would have pointed at the stale port.
Thanks @nitink133, this is very useful. It's the same failure on a newer build, with a different stale port.
TLS inspection: you're right. The check reads /config from the local cloudflared, so it still sees the 3774 mismatch and logs T3 Connect routes this server's tunnel to another origin. The fix is a relay call, though, so behind Threat Protection every attempt fails until fix(desktop): use system CAs for bundled server requests #23424 lands. The backoff limits those attempts to one every 30 minutes. I've added this dependency to the PR description.
What wrote 3774: I can't tell from here either. A marker for 3773 written at startup means the relay accepted 3773 then, so a later registration moved it. This PR is meant to fix the route whichever process did it. The next step toward naming the cause is a trace from that window.
The reachability message: that's a real bug, but a separate one. The probe hits the same certificate failure, so it reports "did not answer" instead of the 502 or origin_unreachable, which would point at the stale port. Its fix belongs in its own issue so it stays out of this PR.
Add a test for connector origin extraction from /config.
inspectConnector takes origin from the first ingress rule that has a hostname, and it returns null when ingress is absent or null. The watcher tests inject origin strings directly, and no inspected test passes a cloudflared /config body through inspectConnector. A change to the service field, the rule selection, or the null-ingress branch would not fail any test.
Add a focused test that decodes a /config body with a catch-all rule and a hostname rule. It should assert that origin equals the hostname rule's service. Add a case where ingress is absent or null, and assert that origin is null.
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Add focused tests for inspectConnector’s /config decoding: use a body with a
catch-all rule followed by a hostname rule and assert that origin is the
hostname rule’s service. Also test absent or null ingress and assert that origin
is null; keep the change limited to covering these extraction behaviors.
@coderabbitai the /config extraction nitpick is addressed in f74f170. A new ManagedEndpointRuntime test runs a fake connector, serves a real /config body (a hostname rule plus the catch-all) through inspectConnector, and asserts the hostname and origin. It also checks that a null or missing ingress gives null. Clearing origin or selecting the catch-all rule makes the test fail.
@ishaanko Thanks. I inspected the new test in apps/server/src/cloud/ManagedEndpointRuntime.test.ts. It checks hostname-rule extraction through inspectConnector, distinguishes the origin from the catch-all service, and covers null and missing ingress.
This addresses the /config extraction concern. I did not run the test in this environment.
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Fixes https://git.cafe/pingdotgg/t3code/issues/24243.
T3 Connect was down for 26 hours on a service-managed Linux host. The server listened on 3773, but the ingress the relay pushed to cloudflared pointed at
127.0.0.1:46169, a port nothing listened on. Every request failed with "connection refused" until a restart re-registered the real port. This happened on a build that already includes the ownership lock from https://git.cafe/pingdotgg/t3code/issues/7458, so some other process with the environment's credentials still registered a foreign origin. The trace that would name it had rotated out. Whatever the trigger, the owning server never noticed that its tunnel pointed elsewhere.Only the server that holds the T3 home runs the connector, so its own listen origin is always the correct ingress. The server now reads the ingress cloudflared received (
/config, which it already polls for the hostname) once a minute. When the hostname rule'sservicenames a different origin, it registers its origin again through the existingregisterManagedTunnelRecoverypath, and the relay'sreconcileOriginpushes the corrected ingress. Consecutive mismatches double the wait up to 30 minutes, so a relay that can't fix it isn't asked every minute. A match resets the wait to one minute.The fix itself goes through the relay. Behind a TLS-inspecting proxy, the bundled runtime rejects the relay's certificate (https://git.cafe/pingdotgg/t3code/issues/23408), so the server still detects and logs the mismatch, since
/configis local, but each re-registration fails until https://git.cafe/pingdotgg/t3code/pulls/23424 lands. The backoff limits those failed attempts to one every 30 minutes.Evidence
boot-service.log: the service started on 3773 at 12:17:12 PT and connected. The firstoriginService=http://127.0.0.1:46169 ... connection refusedcame at 12:47:12. 1,888 such lines through 15:08 the next day. No relay client restart, relink, or recovery appears in between./configon the same host after the restart:{"hostname": "<endpoint>", "service": "http://127.0.0.1:3773"}. That's the field the check reads.vp test run apps/server/src/cloud/managedTunnelStartup.test.ts apps/server/src/cloud/ConnectReachability.test.ts: 11 passed. The new tests cover re-registering on a foreign port, ignoring a matching or unknown ingress (including a trailing-slash form), surviving a failed registration, and the backoff (registrations at minutes 1, 3, 7, 15 while the mismatch persists).tsc --noEmitforapps/serverpasses.Not checked: an end-to-end run against the hosted relay with a deliberately stolen origin. I didn't want to point production relay state at a test port.
Made with Claude Opus 5.5 in Claude Code, run from T3 Code.
Fixes #24243