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fix(link): retry a timed-out or refused-forward Child every minute from the Home - #8509
A laptop Remote Link Child that slept stayed failed for up to five minutes after waking (#8470). The Home's -R supervisor reused the Child's doubling retry policy (60 → 120 → 240 → 300 s). Following the decision on #8470, HOME_TUNNEL_RETRY_POLICY now caps maxRetryDelayMs at 60 s:
Failure
Home before
Home after
Child (unchanged)
timeout / forward
60, 120, 240, 300, 300 s…
60 s every time
60, 120, 240, 300 s…
auth
300 s
300 s (≤ 12 attempts/hour)
300 s
host key
never retried
never retried
never retried
The auth bound holds without a special case, because the cap is max(base, maxRetryDelayMs) and auth's base is 300 s. A sleeping host never reaches sshd, so the faster retries add no authentication attempts. ocx link reconnect and the dashboard Retry are unchanged.
The supervisor and tunnel-history tests that pinned the Home's doubling were updated to the new one-minute cadence, and structure/remote-link.md and the Remote Link guide describe it. The Child-side status half of #8470 landed earlier in #8496.
Fail-first: the new tests/clients/link-tunnel-state.test.ts case failed on origin/dev (Received: 120000 for the Home's second timeout retry) and passes now.
bun test tests/clients/link-tunnel-state.test.ts tests/clients/link-supervisor.test.ts tests/clients/link-tunnel-history.test.ts: 55 pass, 0 fail.
bun run test:changed (11,105 tests, 474 files): the link expectations above were updated. Two failures remain, neither caused here: catalog-omit-disabled-native > retained sync and serve-options … fails identically on unchanged origin/dev (missing models_cache.json in this environment), and server-auth > after a 426'd upgrade … failed once under full-run load but passes alone (117/0).
bun run typecheck, bun run privacy:scan, bun run structure:check, layout/ratchet/Lab/structure guards: pass.
Plan audited by an independent reviewer (hyds/deepseek) before implementation.
NOT RUN: full bun run test; a real sleeping-laptop Child.
Checklist
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.
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Updates
Home-initiated remote links now retry after timeout or forwarding failures at a steady one-minute interval, rather than increasing the delay after each failure.
Authentication failures continue to retry every five minutes. Links with changed host keys are not retried.
Child-initiated links retain their increasing retry delay, up to five minutes.
Documentation
Clarified retry timing for Home- and Child-initiated links.
…om the Home
A laptop Child that slept stayed failed for up to five minutes after waking,
because the Home's -R supervisor reused the Child's doubling retry policy
(60, 120, 240, then 300 seconds). Per the #8470 decision, HOME_TUNNEL_RETRY_POLICY
now caps maxRetryDelayMs at 60 seconds: timeout and forward failures are
retried every minute, while auth keeps its five-minute start (the cap is
max(base, maxRetryDelayMs)), so the 12-per-hour bound on auth attempts holds and
a changed host key is still never retried. The Child's own tunnel keeps the
doubling policy. A sleeping host never reaches sshd, so the faster retries add
no authentication attempts.
Closes#8470
Value: a laptop Child reconnects within about a minute of waking instead of up to five.
UX change scope: Home-side retry timing only, for timeout and forward failures. Auth and host-key handling, the Child's own tunnel, and manual Retry are unchanged.
Existing users: a dead Child now gets one connection attempt a minute instead of one every five minutes. A host that is down never reaches sshd, and auth attempts stay at 12 an hour or fewer.
Windows: pure timing policy, nothing platform-specific.
Verification scope: fail-first policy test, link supervisor and history suites, test:changed, typecheck, privacy, structure, guards.
NOT RUN: full bun run test; a real sleeping-laptop Child.
The Home tunnel retry policy now retries timeout and forwarding failures every 60 seconds. Authentication failures retain a five-minute interval, and host-key failures remain excluded from retries. The Child timeout policy and its capped exponential backoff remain unchanged.
Changes: Home tunnel retries
Layer / File(s)
Summary
Separate Home retry schedule src/link/tunnel-state.ts, structure/remote-link.md, docs-site/src/content/docs/guides/remote-link.md
The Home policy now sets timeout and forwarding retry delays to 60 seconds, separate from the Child policy. Authentication retries remain at five minutes. The documentation describes the different Home and Child retry schedules.
Tests verify the Home retry delays, the absence of retries for host-key failures, the unchanged Child timeout backoff, and the one-minute forwarding retry cadence.
lidge-jun/opencodex#7560: This PR changes the Home tunnel retry schedule for the same failure types, but uses capped exponential delays.
Merge Risk: Low · up to 6cd9a
Readers of the translated guides may expect Home retries to slow to five minutes when they now occur every minute. The change is mergeable with a documentation follow-up.
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#8470 requires the Child status/readiness to reflect tunnel liveness and faster recovery after wake. This PR changes HOME_TUNNEL_RETRY_POLICY in src/link/tunnel-state.ts to keep Home timeout and f…
Inspect the reviewed-head implementation and automated tests for Child status/readiness when the reverse tunnel is unavailable. Evidence that status is not tunnel-aware would identify the remaining #8470 requirement; evidence that it is tun…
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The title clearly identifies the main change: the Home retries timed-out or forward-failed Child links every minute.
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The changes are limited to the Home retry policy, related retry tests, and Remote Link documentation. These changes support #8470's recovery objective. No unrelated changes are shown in the whole-PR d…
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#8470 requires the Child status/readiness to reflect tunnel liveness and faster recovery after wake. This PR changes HOME_TUNNEL_RETRY_POLICY in src/link/tunnel-state.ts to keep Home timeout and forward retries at 60 seconds; it preserves the 300-second auth delay and does not retry host-key failures. The updated supervisor and tunnel-history tests and Remote Link documentation support that timing change. The one-minute cadence reduces the prior five-minute wait. However, the reviewed diff does not establish whether the Child status/readiness requirement is met. The PR description says that work landed earlier in #8496, but that statement alone does not establish its behavior at this head.
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Inspect the reviewed-head implementation and automated tests for Child status/readiness when the reverse tunnel is unavailable. Evidence that status is not tunnel-aware would identify the remaining #8470 requirement; evidence that it is tunnel-aware would resolve this assessment.
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Review comments at @docs-site/src/content/docs/guides/remote-link.md:
- Line 70: Update the Failed descriptions in the Japanese, Korean, Russian,
Simplified Chinese, French, Turkish, and Traditional Chinese remote-link guides
to match the English retry schedule: Home retries timeout or forwarding failures
every minute, while a Child retries after one minute and doubles the interval up
to five minutes. Preserve each translation’s existing wording and other retry
behavior.
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docs-site/src/content/docs/guides/remote-link.md
src/link/tunnel-state.ts
structure/remote-link.md
tests/clients/link-supervisor.test.ts
tests/clients/link-tunnel-history.test.ts
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- **Connected** means the SSH tunnel is ready and the Child can use the Home link.
- **Reconnecting** means the tunnel is being retried. Requests can temporarily return `503` with `Retry-After` while the retry is in progress. On a Child that connected from its own dashboard, a request first waits up to 15 seconds for the tunnel to come back.
- **Failed** means the link needs attention. Check SSH authentication, the confirmed host key, forwarding, or the timeout reason shown in the dashboard. The side that runs the SSH tunnel keeps retrying by itself, after sleep, an outage or a restart: Home for a Child it added, and the Child for a link it joined from its own dashboard. After a timeout or forwarding error it retries after one minute and doubles the wait after each retry that fails again, up to five minutes; after an authentication error it retries every five minutes. A changed host key is never retried. To try again at once, select **Retry** in the Home's dashboard or run `ocx link reconnect --link-id <id>` on the Home. It restarts that link's tunnel without restarting OpenCodex.
- **Failed** means the link needs attention. Check SSH authentication, the confirmed host key, forwarding, or the timeout reason shown in the dashboard. The side that runs the SSH tunnel keeps retrying by itself, after sleep, an outage or a restart: Home for a Child it added, and the Child for a link it joined from its own dashboard. After a timeout or forwarding error the Home retries a Child it added every minute, so a laptop that slept reconnects within about a minute of waking; a Child that joined from its own dashboard retries after one minute and doubles the wait after each retry that fails again, up to five minutes. After an authentication error either side retries every five minutes. A changed host key is never retried. To try again at once, select **Retry** in the Home's dashboard or run `ocx link reconnect --link-id <id>` on the Home. It restarts that link's tunnel without restarting OpenCodex.
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Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win
Update the translated retry schedules.
Line 70 correctly says that Home retries timeout and forward failures every minute. The corresponding Japanese, Korean, Russian, Simplified Chinese, French, Turkish, and Traditional Chinese guides still say the interval doubles to five minutes for both Home and Child. That gives readers the wrong recovery schedule for a Home-added Child. Update each affected Failed description to distinguish Home’s fixed interval from Child’s doubling interval. (raw.githubusercontent.com)
As per coding guidelines, “English documentation is the canonical source. Translated content must not contradict it.” The docs-site path instructions also require translated locale pages to stay in sync with English.
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Review comment at @docs-site/src/content/docs/guides/remote-link.md at line 70:
Update the Failed descriptions in the Japanese, Korean, Russian, Simplified Chinese, French, Turkish, and Traditional Chinese remote-link guides to match the English retry schedule: Home retries timeout or forwarding failures every minute, while a Child retries after one minute and doubles the interval up to five minutes. Preserve each translation’s existing wording and other retry behavior.
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Summary
A laptop Remote Link Child that slept stayed
failedfor up to five minutes after waking (#8470). The Home's-Rsupervisor reused the Child's doubling retry policy (60 → 120 → 240 → 300 s). Following the decision on #8470,HOME_TUNNEL_RETRY_POLICYnow capsmaxRetryDelayMsat 60 s:The auth bound holds without a special case, because the cap is
max(base, maxRetryDelayMs)and auth's base is 300 s. A sleeping host never reaches sshd, so the faster retries add no authentication attempts.ocx link reconnectand the dashboard Retry are unchanged.The supervisor and tunnel-history tests that pinned the Home's doubling were updated to the new one-minute cadence, and
structure/remote-link.mdand the Remote Link guide describe it. The Child-side status half of #8470 landed earlier in #8496.Closes #8470
Verification
tests/clients/link-tunnel-state.test.tscase failed onorigin/dev(Received: 120000for the Home's second timeout retry) and passes now.bun test tests/clients/link-tunnel-state.test.ts tests/clients/link-supervisor.test.ts tests/clients/link-tunnel-history.test.ts: 55 pass, 0 fail.bun run test:changed(11,105 tests, 474 files): the link expectations above were updated. Two failures remain, neither caused here:catalog-omit-disabled-native > retained sync and serve-options …fails identically on unchangedorigin/dev(missingmodels_cache.jsonin this environment), andserver-auth > after a 426'd upgrade …failed once under full-run load but passes alone (117/0).bun run typecheck,bun run privacy:scan,bun run structure:check, layout/ratchet/Lab/structure guards: pass.bun run test; a real sleeping-laptop Child.Checklist
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