nixos/home: Serve DNS on VRRP VIP and fix ipsec WAN ordering

Clients were handed both routers' real addresses as resolvers, so a downed
router meant per-query resolver timeouts. Serve pdns-recursor on the VRRP
VIPs (with non-local bind so the backup can pre-bind them) and advertise the
VIP via kea and radvd, so DNS follows the master. untrusted advertises
Cloudflare over v6 to match its v4 config.

ipsec started before the WAN's public IP was up: stream's wan carries a
static modem address that satisfies wait-online before the DHCP lease, so
libreswan loaded its mesh conns (left=<public IP>) unoriented and never
initiated. Gate stream's wan-online.target on the DHCP default route
instead, and mkForce ipsec onto wan-online.target only (dropping the
strongswan/libreswan multi-user.target pull-in) so the gate actually holds
on both boxes.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>

nixos/boxes/home/routing-common/default.nix

@@ -161,7 +161,12 @@ in
           systemd.services = {
             ipsec = {
               after = [ "wan-online.target" ];
-              wantedBy = [ "wan-online.target" ];
+              # strongswan/libreswan force wantedBy=multi-user.target; drop it so the
+              # target is a true gate rather than mere ordering. This matters most on
+              # river, where the target is hook-driven and not in the boot transaction,
+              # so plain ordering wouldn't hold ipsec back at all. partOf re-loads ipsec
+              # (re-orienting its connections) whenever the WAN drops and returns.
+              wantedBy = mkForce [ "wan-online.target" ];
               partOf = [ "wan-online.target" ];
             };
 

nixos/boxes/home/routing-common/dns.nix

@@ -13,6 +13,13 @@ let
 in
 {
   config = {
+    # Let pdns-recursor bind the VRRP VIPs even on the backup, where the addresses
+    # aren't present locally
+    boot.kernel.sysctl = {
+      "net.ipv4.ip_nonlocal_bind" = 1;
+      "net.ipv6.ip_nonlocal_bind" = 1;
+    };
+
     my = {
       secrets.files = {
         "home/pdns/auth.conf" = {
@@ -40,6 +47,10 @@ in
               "127.0.0.1" "::1"
               assignments.hi.ipv4.address assignments.hi.ipv6.address
               assignments.lo.ipv4.address assignments.lo.ipv6.address
+              # VRRP VIPs: DNS follows the master, so clients only ever have one
+              # (always-live) resolver address and never hang on a dead router
+              vips.hi.v4 vips.hi.v6
+              vips.lo.v4 vips.lo.v6
             ];
             allow_from = [
               "127.0.0.0/8" "::1/128"

nixos/boxes/home/routing-common/kea.nix

@@ -83,7 +83,8 @@ in
                 }
                 {
                   name = "domain-name-servers";
-                  data = "${net.cidr.host 1 prefixes.hi.v4}, ${net.cidr.host 2 prefixes.hi.v4}";
+                  # VRRP VIP so DNS follows the master and clients never hit a dead router
+                  data = vips.hi.v4;
                 }
                 {
                   name = "interface-mtu";
@@ -116,7 +117,8 @@ in
                 }
                 {
                   name = "domain-name-servers";
-                  data = "${net.cidr.host 1 prefixes.lo.v4}, ${net.cidr.host 2 prefixes.lo.v4}";
+                  # VRRP VIP so DNS follows the master and clients never hit a dead router
+                  data = vips.lo.v4;
                 }
               ];
               pools = [

nixos/boxes/home/routing-common/radvd.nix

@@ -2,7 +2,14 @@ index: { lib, pkgs, ... }:
 let
   inherit (lib) mkForce concatMapStringsSep;
   inherit (lib.my) net;
-  inherit (lib.my.c.home) domain prefixes;
+  inherit (lib.my.c.home) domain prefixes vips;
+
+  # untrusted uses external (Cloudflare) resolvers, matching the v4 kea config;
+  # trusted VLANs use the internal recursor via its floating VRRP VIP
+  rdnss = name:
+    if name == "untrusted"
+    then "2606:4700:4700::1111 2606:4700:4700::1001"
+    else vips."${name}".v6;
 
   mkInterface = name: ''
     interface lan-${name} {
@@ -10,7 +17,7 @@ let
       AdvRASrcAddress { fe80::1; };
       AdvLinkMTU ${toString prefixes."${name}".mtu};
       prefix ${prefixes."${name}".v6} {};
-      RDNSS ${net.cidr.host 1 prefixes."${name}".v6} ${net.cidr.host 2 prefixes."${name}".v6} {};
+      RDNSS ${rdnss name} {};
       DNSSL ${domain} dyn.${domain} ${lib.my.c.colony.domain} ${lib.my.c.britway.domain} {};
      };
   '';

nixos/boxes/home/stream.nix

@@ -77,11 +77,29 @@
           };
         };
 
-        # WAN is a plain networkd-managed DHCP link here; gate the shared wan-online
+        # wan carries a permanent static modem-management address (assignments.modem)
-        # target on networkd reporting it online.
+        # alongside the DHCP public IP, so wait-online@wan reports "online" as soon as
+        # the static address is up - before the DHCP lease arrives. ipsec's left= is the
+        # public IP, so gating on wait-online lets it start unoriented and never connect.
+        # Gate instead on the DHCP default route, which only exists once the public lease
+        # is up (the static modem address has no gateway).
+        systemd.services.wan-wait-online = {
+          description = "Wait for the wan default route (public DHCP lease)";
+          after = [ "systemd-networkd.service" ];
+          serviceConfig = {
+            Type = "oneshot";
+            RemainAfterExit = true;
+            TimeoutStartSec = "300";
+          };
+          script = ''
+            until [ -n "$(${pkgs.iproute2}/bin/ip -4 route show default dev wan)" ]; do
+              sleep 1
+            done
+          '';
+        };
         systemd.targets.wan-online = {
-          requires = [ "systemd-networkd-wait-online@wan.service" ];
+          requires = [ "wan-wait-online.service" ];
-          after = [ "systemd-networkd-wait-online@wan.service" ];
+          after = [ "wan-wait-online.service" ];
           wantedBy = [ "multi-user.target" ];
         };