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James Tucker f5f326030b net/dns: preserve full OS resolver detail in Apple primary mode
When quad-100 must be installed as the OS primary resolver (Apple Mode
B), its catch-all forwarders were blended from base-config nameserver
IPs alone: non-standard ports, search domains, and DoH/DoT endpoints
were lost, and a base read that returned no resolvers silently
installed a catch-all with no forwarders at all, breaking all public
DNS while reporting a healthy DNS configuration.

Introduce OSConfig.Resolvers, which OSConfigurators able to recover the
underlying resolver configuration at full fidelity populate for the DNS
manager only: it never reaches the OS, and Equal ignores it so
configuration application is unaffected. Blend it into the catch-all
route verbatim, falling back to plain IP:53 resolvers derived from
Nameservers.

Teach the forwarder to dial arbitrary https:// resolvers instead of
only well-known public providers: at their BootstrapResolution
addresses when present, or at the URL's own host when that is an IP
literal, so enterprise DoH endpoints recovered from the OS can be
forwarded to over DoH rather than plaintext DNS.

Reject an empty base config on Apple Mode B: keep the previous
configuration, use the upstream empty-base health warning and medium
severity, and let an extension-triggered recompile retry instead of
installing a catch-all that cannot forward. Expose the same missing-
resolver error to OS configurators so bridge-reported absence uses this
warning too, while genuine configuration-read failures remain distinct.

Extend the Apple mode tests with empty-base and full-fidelity blend
coverage, and update the iOS primary-mode cases to model the real
NetworkExtension base read (LAN resolvers and search domains) rather
than the silently empty catch-all.

RELNOTE: Fix silent public DNS breakage when Tailscale must be the system DNS resolver on Apple clients.

Updates #20341
Updates tailscale/corp#45534
Updates tailscale/corp#48693

Change-Id: Ie7e277b0fd39d2b91b1e770f8f01d688e02b4d49
Signed-off-by: James Tucker <james@tailscale.com>
2026-09-29 16:11:57 -07:00
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