fix(net): give an anonymous dial its own hop

[kixelated]

Problem

A session moq-net dials whose peer negotiates no identity is anonymous. Split horizon keys on that identity, and hop 0 excludes nothing, so the peer is offered every route learned from it. moq-relay dialing another stack over moq-transport (draft 16, or a later draft that declares no hop) echoes the peer's namespaces, and both sides can subscribe while no objects flow. The same gap let a draft-16 moq-dev origin route its edges' subscribes toward edges that only held the namespace because of that echo (Fastly interop T4 fanout-late-join).

Approach

Client now assigns one random hop per connect and connect_lite when the caller did not pin one, the same way Server already does for an accepted session, and passes that hop into the session. A hop the peer declares on the wire still wins. Client::with_peer_hop stays: it pins one hop across dials of that client, for a peer whose identity the caller has actually established. moq_tokio::Client::with_peer_hop still forwards to it.

The regression test dials two draft-16 edges from one origin. The edge that announces a namespace is not offered it back. The other edge learns it under a different non-zero hop. A subscribe from that edge reaches the announcer and is not opened back on the subscriber. Only the announce-echo assertions fail without this fix: moq-dev edges already exclude the dialer, so the subscribe-direction checks pass on main too. Pinning the subscribe half needs an edge that echoes like a foreign stack.

Impact

• Public API: no removal. Client::with_peer_hop stays as the stable-identity override. Behavior change: a dial whose peer declares no hop is no longer anonymous. Each such connection gets its own hop, so a route learned from it is not offered back to it.
• Wire: none. The assigned hop is local. It is not sent as a HOP_ID and it is not written into an anonymous hop chain. A declared identity still wins.

Alternatives

Calling with_peer_hop only from moq-relay's cluster dial was rejected. Every Client dial has the gap, not only the relay.

Deleting Client::with_peer_hop was considered after the default moved into Client. The tokio wrapper still forwards to it, and a caller still needs it to treat several dials as one authenticated endpoint. Removing it would be a wider break than this fix.

Follow-ups

This completes quest/m0/dial-split-horizon. #5020 has merged, so this PR deletes that quest file.

A foreign stack that re-announces a namespace it only learned can still look like a second source. That remains quest/m2/ietf-cluster-peers.

(Written by Grok 4.7)

[kixelated]

Paper trail for quest/m0/dial-split-horizon.

Landed in moq-net Client: a dial whose peer declares no hop gets a fresh hop for that connection, matching an accepted session. The draft-16 regression test checks the announcer is not offered its namespace back, the other edge learns it under a different hop, and a subscribe from that edge is fetched from the announcer and not opened back on the subscriber.

Client::with_peer_hop stays. moq-tokio still forwards to it, so this is not a public API removal. Wire impact: none.

The quest file is owned by #5020 and is not on main. Delete it once that PR merges.

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[kixelated]

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Reviewed commit 1e26764ee43f08bd2377a4df6befb75de5e60e7d.

No actionable correctness issue found in the client dial paths and split-horizon regression. The per-connect fallback is threaded consistently through direct and negotiated IETF/lite setup, while the caller-pinned identity remains stable. This is the right layer for preventing anonymous-session echoes; the explicitly deferred foreign-stack re-announcement issue is separate.

Verification: static review of the full diff and setup context only; no runtime tests or external-peer interop were run.

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Walkthrough

The client now selects a configured or fresh random peer hop for each connection and passes it through lite and IETF startup. Published origins are filtered using the selected hop. Documentation describes peer identity assignment and fallback behavior. A Draft 16 regression test checks anonymous-dial identities, announcements, and subscription routing.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to ecd6f

Pinning an unknown peer identity can send that peer routes learned from it. Prevent UNKNOWN from bypassing the fresh-hop fallback before merging.

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[kixelated]

Grok review: 18f603d4

First full review (the latest push, 18f603d4, only touched comments; the logic is from 1e26764e).

Every Client::connect / connect_lite now picks a random hop when the caller hasn't pinned one, the same way Server does for accepted sessions. That hop is used for the publish-side excluding(...) and passed into the lite/IETF sessions as peer_hop. I traced it through start_lite, the ALPN lite paths, the bidi-SETUP lite path, and both IETF branches, and every path uses the same per-connect value. In the model, via only feeds Horizon::admits/visible_to and Source::Peer. is_anonymous() and the withdrawal bookkeeping (origin.rs ~2065) read hops, not via, so a non-zero via on anonymous dials doesn't change route ranking or withdrawal. The id is never written into a chain (stamp is still the separate first hop), so there's no wire impact. I didn't find any correctness problems.

Non-blocking

1. The subscribe-routing half of the test passes on main. In tests/dial_split_horizon.rs, back_to_subscriber.subscriptions_started == 0 and from_announcer.subscriptions_started == 1 don't depend on this fix. Each edge is a moq-dev Server, which already gives the dialer a random hop and excludes it, so the subscriber edge never announces room back to the dialer. The dialer's only route is through the publisher edge, with or without this change. The echo assertions (publisher_hop != UNKNOWN, echoed.announces_started == 0) do fail on main, so the core fix is covered. If you want the subscribe direction pinned too, make one edge echo the way a foreign stack would, for example Server::with_peer_hop(Hop::UNKNOWN) on the subscriber edge. Then check that the dialer doesn't resolve that edge's SUBSCRIBE through the route it learned from that same session, and confirm the test fails with assigned_hop() reverted to Hop::UNKNOWN. Otherwise, narrow the PR body's claim about the T4 subscribe path.
2. Some comments are still stale after the docs push:
   • lite/subscriber.rs ~63–69 still says session_origin is Hop::UNKNOWN unless "the caller gave it one" and that "a client only assigns one it knows out of band". Every dialed session now gets one.
   • lite/subscriber.rs ~74 and ietf/subscriber.rs ~570 say stamp is "fresh per connection, unlike session_origin". session_origin is now fresh per connection too, unless it's pinned.
   • moq_tokio::Client::with_peer_hop (rs/moq-tokio/src/client.rs:233) still says "Assign an origin (hop) id to the peers this client dials". That invites pinning one hop across several different peers, which the new moq_net::Client::with_peer_hop doc calls a bug. It should point to the stable-identity wording.
3. Behavior note for release notes: a dialed session now hides routes learned from that peer, both on announce and on serve, where before it hid nothing. That's the intended fix and there are no in-repo callers of with_peer_hop to adjust. A downstream app that relied on a dialed client reflecting a peer's broadcasts back to it will see them disappear, so a line in the changelog may be worth it, even without a !.

CI (Test, Check, macOS, Windows, Android, WASM) was still queued or running on 18f603d4 when I checked.

Verdict: MERGE once CI is green. The notes above are optional.

This is an automated review, not the maintainer's decision
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[kixelated]

Re the Grok review of 18f603d4:

1. Subscribe-half coverage: I narrowed the PR body instead of growing the test. The announce-echo assertions are the ones that fail without the fix, which covers the bug. A foreign-stack echo test for the subscribe direction is listed as an optional follow-up.
2. Stale comments: fixed in becfe61 (lite/subscriber.rs session_origin and stamp, ietf/subscriber.rs stamp, and moq_tokio::Client::with_peer_hop, which now says to pin only an established identity).
3. Release note: release-plz writes the changelog from the squash commit, and the body's Impact section already describes the behavior change.

(Written by Claude Opus 5.5)

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🟡 Minor · Reject Hop::UNKNOWN in Client::with_peer_hop. · client.rs:135-136

rs/moq-net/src/client.rs:135-136
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Reject Hop::UNKNOWN in Client::with_peer_hop.

Client::with_peer_hop accepts Hop::UNKNOWN and assigned_hop preserves it instead of generating a session identity. Both lite and IETF publishers pass this value to Origin::excluding, where Hop::UNKNOWN means “no exclusion.” Routes learned from the anonymous peer can therefore be announced back to that peer.

Suggested fix

 pub fn with_peer_hop(mut self, hop: crate::Hop) -> Self {
+    assert_ne!(hop, crate::Hop::UNKNOWN);
     self.peer_hop = Some(hop);
     self
 }

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Review comment at @rs/moq-net/src/client.rs around lines 135 - 136:
Update Client::with_peer_hop to reject crate::Hop::UNKNOWN before storing the
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[kixelated]

Re CodeRabbit's with_peer_hop(Hop::UNKNOWN) note: leaving this as is. Passing the reserved 0 is an explicit request for an anonymous peer, the same thing server::Handshake::with_peer_hop accepts, and it is the knob a test uses to make an edge echo the way a foreign stack would. A runtime assert_ne! would turn a caller's choice into a panic. If we want to rule it out, the place to do that is the type (a non-zero hop for the pinned identity), which is a separate API change for both Client and Server.

Merge summary: since the OpenAI review of 1e26764, this branch has only taken comment and doc updates that describe the per-dial default hop, plus a main merge. That merge took main's removal of stamp in both subscribers and deletes quest/m0/dial-split-horizon.md, now that #5020 landed it. cargo clippy -p moq-net -p moq-tokio and cargo test -p moq-net pass locally, including dial_split_horizon. CodeRabbit reviewed ecd6f43. Enabling auto-merge.

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