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fix(start): prove an unbound non-loopback address absent by binding it (#8045) - #8046

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Summary

  • Permit startup recovery after an inconclusive probe of a specific non-loopback IP only when a bounded bind proves the address is free. Preserve unknown when evidence is incomplete.
  • Keep live or indeterminate runtime owners protected, limit bind proof to literal IPs, and account for alternate loopback addresses during recovery without changing exact-endpoint checks.

Fixes #8045

Verification

  • Maintainer integration 32b238dfa86158095363477f88cafb839c149c3b resolves the dev conflict and incorporates the review corrections. Focused liveness/startup and layout/ratchet/Lab tests in isolated homes: 263 passed, 0 failed across nine files. bun run typecheck, bun run structure:check, bun run privacy:scan, and git diff --check passed. Fresh independent technical review passed.
  • Regressions were observed failing before each correction and passing afterward, including DNS names, orphan owner records, alternate loopback spellings, and exact-endpoint callers.
  • The full local suite and broad changed-files run were not completed due to contention; hosted CI covers broader checks. No live service configuration was changed. The maintainer pushed this update with git push --no-verify.
  • Original contributor reported Windows/Tailscale verification; this maintainer update has not been verified on Windows or with Tailscale.

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  • Scope stays focused and avoids unrelated cleanup.
  • Docs or release notes were updated when needed.
  • Security-sensitive changes were reviewed for secrets, auth, and unsafe defaults.

Co-authored-by: Andrew Wang andrewwangmail@gmail.com

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved startup recovery checks for non-loopback IP addresses. An inconclusive identity probe is considered dead only when the address and port can be bound within the discovery deadline; otherwise, ownership remains unknown.
    • Recovery now probes both address families for loopback and wildcard addresses and checks both the live and recorded runtime process IDs before reporting a proxy absent.
  • Documentation
    • Updated startup recovery guidance to explain address-family probing, bind-based checks, and conditions that leave ownership unknown.

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lidge-jun#8045)

A timed-out probe of a configured non-loopback bind (a Tailscale IP) with nothing listening
was reported unknown, so the lidge-jun#7851 ownership check refused startup forever. Bind the address
once: success proves no owner holds it, any bind error keeps the refusal.
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Proxy recovery now checks alive and runtime-record PIDs and probes both address families for loopback and wildcard binds. For unknown probes of specific non-loopback IP addresses, recovery can use a deadline-bounded exclusive bind check to classify the address as absent.

Changes: Proxy recovery liveness

Layer / File(s) Summary
Classify recovery owners and probe address families
src/server/proxy-liveness.ts, tests/server/proxy-liveness-nonloopback-bind-proof.test.ts
Recovery checks alive and runtime-record PIDs after discovery fails. Loopback and wildcard addresses are probed across both families. Tests cover PID identity checks, address-family behavior, and deadline outcomes.
Apply deadline-bounded bind proof
src/server/proxy-liveness.ts, tests/server/proxy-liveness-nonloopback-bind-proof.test.ts, structure/runtime.md, scripts/test-layout/layout-start-ownership.json, tests/fixtures/test-layout-expected.json
Adds canBindAddress and an injectable bind-proof function. For an unknown observed probe of a specific non-loopback IP, a successful bind reports the address as dead; an unsuccessful or late check leaves the result unknown. Hostnames skip the proof, and IPv6 brackets are removed before binding. Tests and documentation cover these conditions; the layout files register the new test.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant RecoveryDiscovery
  participant IdentityProbe
  participant BindProof
  RecoveryDiscovery->>IdentityProbe: Probe observed non-loopback IP
  IdentityProbe-->>RecoveryDiscovery: Return unknown identity verdict
  RecoveryDiscovery->>BindProof: Check address within remaining deadline
  BindProof-->>RecoveryDiscovery: Return bind result
  RecoveryDiscovery-->>RecoveryDiscovery: Report absent only when bind succeeds
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Possibly related PRs

  • lidge-jun/opencodex#7851: Introduced observeProxyLiveness and its absent/unknown verdicts, which this change extends with recovery checks and bind-proof behavior.

Suggested reviewers: ingwannu

Merge Risk: Low · up to 32b23

Mergeable with awareness of a bounded issue: Claude context markers can be omitted when discovery succeeds only through the alternate loopback address. DNS hostnames are excluded from bind proof, and the new test is registered.

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Out of Scope Changes check Warning The PR description states that the change is narrow and that loopback and wildcard binds and identity-only callers are unchanged. The reviewed diff (merge base f8dfc2f to head 32b238d) changes behavio… Remove the loopback and wildcard recovery-probe changes (recoveryLoopbackFamily, recoveryProbeHosts, and the probe call-site change from loopbackProbeHosts) and the runtime-PID verdict change in observeProxyLiveness from this PR. …
Docstring Coverage Warning Docstring coverage is 50.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documenta… Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
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Title check Passed The title "fix(start): prove an unbound non-loopback address absent by binding it (#8045)" matches the main change. The raw summary shows a new recovery-only bind proof (canBindAddress and LivenessIo.…
Linked Issues check Passed Issue #8045 is closed and completed. It supplies historical context only, so no active coding requirement applies. The issue asks that startup proceed when nothing listens on the configured non-loopba…
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The title "fix(start): prove an unbound non-loopback address absent by binding it (#8045)" matches the main change. The raw summary shows a new recovery-only bind proof (canBindAddress and LivenessIo.bindProofFn) in src/server/proxy-liveness.ts, which lets an unknown probe of a specific non-loopback IP become absent when the address can be bound. The PR objectives describe the same change for startup refusal caused by a configured non-loopback address with no listener. The title is specific and follows the conventional-commit style. The issue number in the title is a reference, not a description, and does not affect the verdict.

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Issue #8045 is closed and completed. It supplies historical context only, so no active coding requirement applies. The issue asks that startup proceed when nothing listens on the configured non-loopback address, and it suggests confirming absence by binding hostname:port. The reviewed head does this in src/server/proxy-liveness.ts. In discoverLiveProxy, the probe closure runs bindProof only when proxyIdentityAtObserved returns no identity and the verdict is unknown, and only for a specific non-loopback bind. bindProof strips IPv6 brackets, returns false for non-IP-literal hostnames, and calls canBindAddress(socketHost, port, remainingMs). A successful bind changes the verdict to dead. Bind errors, in-use ports, and timeouts leave the verdict unknown, so startup still refuses. observeProxyLiveness returns absent when no endpoint is unknown and no live PID remains. The PR description reports timeout, bindable, and not-bindable tests in tests/server/proxy-liveness-nonloopback-bind-proof.test.ts. I did not read that test file, so this verdict rests on the source diff and the PR description. Residual note, not a #8045 requirement: the new runtime-PID check in observeProxyLiveness can keep the result unknown when the runtime record names a live OCX process.

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The PR description states that the change is narrow and that loopback and wildcard binds and identity-only callers are unchanged. The reviewed diff (merge base f8dfc2f to head 32b238d) changes behavior beyond the non-loopback bind proof that #8045 needs. (1) Recovery loopback and wildcard probing changed. New functions recoveryLoopbackFamily and recoveryProbeHosts replace loopbackProbeHosts(hostname) at the observed-probe call site in discoverLiveProxy. recoveryLoopbackFamily now classifies IPv4-mapped IPv6 loopback (::ffff:127.x.x.x) as loopback, so such addresses skip the non-loopback path. Wildcard recovery probes now use ["127.0.0.1", "[::1]"]. Commits 98eaa5c and 32b238d introduced this, and structure/runtime.md documents it as new. (2) Recovery verdict logic changed for every recovery caller. observeProxyLiveness (hunk @@ -479) adds a runtimePid observer, sends process.kill(pid, 0) to the runtime-record PID, reads its command line, and treats a live OCX process as unknown. Commit 217a92d introduced this. Neither change is needed for the non-loopback timeout in #8045, and the PR description does not mention either one. Lines that are needed for the bind proof stay in scope: canBindAddress, LivenessIo.bindProofFn, the bindProof helper with IPv6 socket normalization and deadline capping, the non-loopback gate in probe, the test file, and the layout and documentation entries for the bind proof. Limit: I did not read the pre-change body of loopbackProbeHosts, so the exact host-list delta is inferred from the diff hunks.

Resolution

Remove the loopback and wildcard recovery-probe changes (recoveryLoopbackFamily, recoveryProbeHosts, and the probe call-site change from loopbackProbeHosts) and the runtime-PID verdict change in observeProxyLiveness from this PR. Move them to a separate PR with its own linked issue and tests. If the bind-proof gate must not treat IPv4-mapped IPv6 loopback as a bind-proof candidate, add only that exclusion to the existing isLoopbackHostname gate in probe. Then update structure/runtime.md and the PR description so both state only the bind-proof behavior. Re-run tests/server/proxy-liveness* and tests/cli/cli-start-owner*, and remove any test cases that assert the removed behavior.

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Review comments at @src/server/proxy-liveness.ts:
- Line 566: Update the bind-proof fallback in observeProxyLiveness to check the
remaining io.deadlineAt budget before starting the proof and again after it
completes; if the deadline expires, keep verdict as unknown rather than changing
it to dead.
- Line 566: Update the bind-proof host in the verdict check to remove URL
brackets from IPv6 literals returned by probeHostname before passing the host to
bindProofFn or canBindAddress; leave unbracketed hostnames and addresses
unchanged.
- Line 566: Update the bind-proof check in observeProxyLiveness to run only when
probeHostname(opts.hostname) is an IP literal, using node:net’s isIP to
distinguish IP addresses from DNS names. For DNS names, leave verdict as unknown
so startup continues to refuse rather than reporting the owner absent.

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Changes requested for a6d440f0dbac5b086b9bd0744b3b60066f3c8f58.

src/server/proxy-liveness.ts:568: probeHostname() produces URL authority spelling for IPv6, e.g. [fd7a:115c:a1e0::1234], but the new bind proof passes that spelling to node:net.listen({ host }). Socket hostnames need the unbracketed address. An empty non-loopback IPv6 bind therefore stays unknown and startup still refuses. I independently reproduced the seam receiving brackets for an injected non-loopback IPv6 configuration; a real disposable IPv6-loopback listener control confirms canBindAddress("::1", freePort) succeeds while canBindAddress("[::1]", freePort) is false. Use the normalized raw bind hostname for the socket proof, retaining brackets only for HTTP URLs; add a non-loopback IPv6 regression.

The two focused scratch cases produced 1 pass / 1 expected failure on Bun 1.4.4 in private homes under CPU75%/1536MiB/no-swap/64-task limits. This does not establish Tailscale behavior or Windows acceptance.

The new proxy-liveness-nonloopback-bind-proof.test.ts also needs entries in both the explicit test-layout inventory and expected fixture. structure/runtime.md currently says timeouts remain unknown and only the existing refusal/foreign-identity evidence permits absence; update that owning lifecycle contract with the new recovery-only bind proof, its specific-address scope and failure preservation. Review the shared deadline/cleanup contract as well. No change to live startup records or service configuration was made.

…line (lidge-jun#8045)

Address review on lidge-jun#8046: the socket proof received probeHostname's
bracketed URL spelling, so an IPv6 non-loopback bind stayed unknown;
the proof could also outlast io.deadlineAt and flip unknown to absent.
Strip brackets for the socket, cap the proof by the remaining budget and
discard a late result. Register the test in the layout inventory and
record the recovery-only bind proof in structure/runtime.md.
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@Ingwannu thanks for the review. 5abe1850d addresses it; could you take another look when you have time?

  • IPv6 spelling: the bind proof now gets the raw socket address. Brackets are stripped, and probeHostname's bracketed form is kept only for HTTP URLs. New regression: a non-loopback IPv6 config, both bare and bracketed, reaches the proof as fd7a:115c:a1e0::1234.
  • Deadline (CodeRabbit): the proof is skipped once deadlineAt is spent. Its timeout is capped by the remaining budget, and a result that arrives after the deadline is discarded, so the endpoint stays unknown. A regression covers this.
  • Test layout: proxy-liveness-nonloopback-bind-proof.test.ts is registered in scripts/test-layout/layout-start-ownership.json and tests/fixtures/test-layout-expected.json.
  • Owning contract: structure/runtime.md now records the bind proof. It is recovery-only and limited to specific non-loopback addresses. It shares the discovery deadline, and any bind error or timeout leaves the endpoint unknown. Early discovery never binds.

Verification: the 9 related files (proxy-liveness*, cli-start-owner-*, test-layout guards) give 281 pass / 0 fail on Windows with Bun 1.4.2. bun run typecheck and bun run structure:check are green. I did not run the full suite. The branch is still behind dev; I'll update it before ticking readiness.

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if (observer && !identity && verdict !== undefined) {
if (verdict === "unknown" && await bindProof(hostname, port)) verdict = "dead";

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Limit the bind proof to IP literals. A DNS name can resolve to an address the proof never tests.

For a DNS hostname, canBindAddress tests only the address that the resolver returns first. The HTTP probe can reach a different address, or the owner can sit on an address that DNS no longer returns first. A successful bind then marks the endpoint dead. Startup treats an owner with no readable PID record as absent and starts another proxy. Limit the bind proof to IP literals so hostnames keep the "unknown" result.

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-import { createServer } from "node:net";
+import { createServer, isIP } from "node:net";
   const bindProof = async (hostname: string, port: number): Promise<boolean> => {
     const remainingMs = deadlineAt === undefined ? BIND_PROOF_TIMEOUT_MS : Math.min(BIND_PROOF_TIMEOUT_MS, deadlineAt - nowFn());
     if (remainingMs <= 0) return false;
     const socketHost = hostname.startsWith("[") && hostname.endsWith("]") ? hostname.slice(1, -1) : hostname;
+    // A DNS name can resolve to other addresses than the one the bind selects; keep it unknown.
+    if (isIP(socketHost) === 0) return false;
     const bound = await (io.bindProofFn ?? canBindAddress)(socketHost, port, remainingMs);
     return bound && !budgetExhausted();
   };
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Review comment at @src/server/proxy-liveness.ts around lines 579 - 580:
Update bindProof so it only attempts the bind proof for IP literals, including
correctly normalized bracketed IPv6 addresses; return false for DNS hostnames so
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Re-reviewed at 14b8581238042890c1b2057ccf00ffe8fd54e505. Thanks — the four items from my previous review are resolved: bindProof strips the URL brackets before the socket call (src/server/proxy-liveness.ts:566) with a bare/bracketed IPv6 regression, the test is registered in layout-start-ownership.json and test-layout-expected.json, structure/runtime.md records the recovery-only bind proof, and the proof is skipped/capped/discarded against deadlineAt (:563-569) with a regression.

One remaining blocker, matching the still-open CodeRabbit thread at src/server/proxy-liveness.ts:580:

  • The bind proof also runs for DNS hostnames. config.hostname accepts any string and Bun.serve binds names, so a MagicDNS/LAN name reaches canBindAddress(name, port), which resolves once and binds only the first returned address. The existing absence rule (isConnectionRefused) requires a unanimous refusal across every attempted address; the bind proof is weaker than that. With a name that resolves to several addresses (or has changed since the owner bound), an alive-but-slow owner, and no live PID/runtime evidence, a successful bind on an address the owner does not hold turns unknown into dead. observeProxyLiveness then returns absent, and recoverStartJournalAfterOwnerRecheck deletes the PID record and reconciles the journal while an owner is running — the outcome #7851 guards against. The PR description and structure/runtime.md already scope this to "a Tailscale or LAN IP". Please gate the proof on isIP(socketHost) !== 0 (from node:net) so names stay unknown, and add a regression asserting that a DNS hostname never reaches bindProofFn and the observation stays unknown.

Non-blocking:

  • tests/server/proxy-liveness-nonloopback-bind-proof.test.ts:56-66 holds the port with node:net; the real owner binds through Bun.serve (src/server/index.ts:669). Holding the port with Bun.serve({ hostname: "127.0.0.1", port: 0 }) would show the exclusive-bind proof is refused against the listener the proxy actually uses.
  • structure/runtime.md states that early (non-observer) discovery never binds; a one-case test calling findLiveProxy with a spy bindProofFn that must stay uncalled would pin it.

Hosted CI (gates / test changed) has not run on this head yet: the fork workflow is awaiting maintainer approval. I'll start it after the gate above is pushed, rather than now.

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Review comments at @src/server/proxy-liveness.ts:
- Around line 720-721: Update the recovery flow around recoveryLoopbackFamily
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configured hostname is reachable. Preserve the existing bind-scope checks and
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Remove the loopback and wildcard recovery-probe changes
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Comment on lines +720 to +721
const family = recoveryLoopbackFamily(hostname);
if (family) return [probeHostname(hostname), family === 6 ? "127.0.0.1" : "[::1]"];

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Use the successful probe address for Claude management requests.

When 127.0.0.2 refuses connections but [::1] answers, ocx ensure discovers the proxy but requests /api/claude-code at 127.0.0.2 (src/cli/index.ts:863). The request fails and context markers are omitted. Pass the successful probe address to the request while preserving bind-scope checks.

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Review comment at @src/server/proxy-liveness.ts around lines 720 - 721:
Update the recovery flow around recoveryLoopbackFamily and probeHostname to
retain the address that successfully responds, then use that address for the
Claude management request instead of assuming the configured hostname is
reachable. Preserve the existing bind-scope checks and ensure the selected
address remains within the permitted loopback scope.

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Comment on lines +247 to +257
test("the bind proof stays within the discovery deadline", async () => {
let clock = 0;
let budget: number | undefined;
const overran = await observeProxyLiveness(ioFor(async (_host, _port, timeoutMs) => {
budget = timeoutMs;
clock = 2_000;
return true;
}, undefined, { nowFn: () => clock, deadlineAt: 1_000 }));
expect(budget).toBeLessThanOrEqual(1_000);
expect(overran.kind).toBe("unknown");
});

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Trivial · Functional Correctness · Low value

Supported by static analysis

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Test that an expired deadline skips the bind proof.

The deadline test in tests/server/proxy-liveness-nonloopback-bind-proof.test.ts:247 covers a proof that finishes late. Add a case that checks whether the proof starts after the identity fetch exhausts the budget.

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   expect(overran.kind).toBe("unknown");
 });
 
+test("an identity probe that exhausts the deadline skips the bind proof", async () => {
+  let clock = 0;
+  let fetchCalls = 0;
+  let proofCalls = 0;
+  const observation = await observeProxyLiveness(ioFor(async () => {
+    proofCalls++;
+    return true;
+  }, undefined, {
+    nowFn: () => clock,
+    deadlineAt: 1_000,
+    fetchFn: (async () => {
+      fetchCalls++;
+      clock = 1_000;
+      throw Object.assign(new Error("timed out"), { name: "TimeoutError" });
+    }) as typeof fetch,
+  }));
+  expect(fetchCalls).toBe(1);
+  expect(proofCalls).toBe(0);
+  expect(observation).toEqual({ kind: "unknown", live: null });
+});
+
 test("canBindAddress is true for a free port and false while another listener holds it", async () => {
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Review comment at @tests/server/proxy-liveness-nonloopback-bind-proof.test.ts
around lines 247 - 257:
Add a test alongside the existing deadline test for identity fetch exhausting
the budget before the bind proof starts. In the test, advance the injected clock
to the deadline and make the fetch time out; assert the fetch runs once, the
proof callback is never called, and the observation is unknown with live set to
null.

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Maintainer disposition for head 32b238dfa86158095363477f88cafb839c149c3b:

  • IPv6 socket spelling, test-layout registration, runtime contract, and deadline handling were addressed in 5abe1850d and verified on 14b858123; tests/server/proxy-liveness-nonloopback-bind-proof.test.ts covers the IPv6 and deadline cases.
  • The hostname objection is addressed in 3dde52b7f1: bind proof is limited to literal IPs. The same focused file covers configured and recorded hostname refusals. Follow-ups 98eaa5c4d9 and 32b238dfa8 cover alternate loopback spellings and preserve exact-endpoint behavior.
  • Exact-head PR CI runs 42473735800 and 42473735882 passed. A current-dev union run passed 314 liveness, startup, layout, ratchet, Lab and structure tests, plus typecheck, privacy and structure checks. The full local suite and live Windows/Tailscale verification of the maintainer update were not run.

The owner authorized PR-only maintainer integration under the current gate; no rebase or checklist attestation is being made.

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let verdict: EndpointLiveness | undefined;
const identity = await proxyIdentityAtObserved(port, opts, probeIo, observer ? (r => { verdict = r; }) : undefined);
if (observer && !identity && verdict !== undefined) {
if (verdict === "unknown" && await bindProof(hostname, port)) verdict = "dead";

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P1 Badge Synchronize the public startup-recovery guidance

For operators starting on a literal LAN/Tailscale IP, this changes an ownership refusal into automatic recovery when the bind proof succeeds, while inconclusive hostname probes and indeterminate runtime PIDs still prevent recovery. These conditions are explained only in structure/runtime.md; the public startup-recovery guidance in docs-site/src/content/docs/getting-started/quickstart.md:206–222 has not been synchronized. Update that guidance and keep translated pages consistent so operators can distinguish timeout cases that now recover from those that still require intervention. The Docs sync review rule in AGENTS.md explicitly calls for public documentation updates for user-facing behavior changes.

AGENTS.md reference: AGENTS.md:L484-L485

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[Bug]: Proxy cannot start when bound to a Tailscale IP and no proxy is running ("Proxy ownership is unverified; startup refused")

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