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[client] Delete NRPT rules by enumerating the registry instead of a rule count - #7195

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NRPT rule cleanup on Windows deleted the indexed registry keys by counting them instead of reading what is actually there. That count lives only in memory and in the persisted shutdown state, and both can be absent: a configurator that never applied a DNS config starts at zero, and a clean disconnect deletes the state entry. In those cases the loop deletes nothing and any rule it skipped stays behind, keeping a namespace pointed at an interface that is gone until a reboot discards the volatile key. The registry is the authoritative record of what was written, so cleanup reads it.

  • Delete the NRPT rules of both the local and the group policy store by enumerating the keys the client owns, rather than deriving their names from a count
  • Cover the key layouts older versions wrote, which a count based on the current layout cannot
  • Drop the rule count from the configurator and from the persisted shutdown state, since nothing needs it anymore
  • Leave rules that belong to other products untouched
  • Add tests for cleaning up rules a previous run wrote with no count available, and assert the existing NRPT tests against the registry rather than the counter

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Hardening of existing cleanup, no behavior change on the path where the count is intact.

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved Windows DNS policy cleanup to reliably remove all application-managed rules, including rules left behind after an unexpected shutdown or restart.
    • Preserved unrelated DNS policy entries during cleanup.
    • Improved handling of grouped and legacy policy entries.

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Windows NRPT policy creation now uses indexed keys with a shared prefix. Cleanup enumerates and removes matching local and GPO registry keys. Shutdown state no longer stores the NRPT rule count, and tests verify registry-based counting and cleanup without stored state.

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Windows NRPT cleanup

Layer / File(s) Summary
NRPT key naming and state removal
client/internal/dns/host_windows.go, client/internal/dns/unclean_shutdown_windows.go
NRPT keys use a shared prefix and indexed suffixes. Rule creation and shutdown state no longer track or persist an in-memory rule count.
Registry discovery cleanup and validation
client/internal/dns/host_windows.go, client/internal/dns/host_windows_test.go
Cleanup enumerates matching keys in local and GPO stores. Tests verify indexed and legacy rule removal, foreign-key preservation, batching, and registry-based counts.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to e44d9

The cleanup now enumerates registry-backed NRPT rules, but a GPO write failure can still leave a partial DNS policy active and route namespaces incorrectly. Merge should wait for this bounded correctness issue to be fixed or explicitly accepted by the owner.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant DNSConfigurator
  participant RegistryEnumerator
  participant WindowsPolicyStore
  DNSConfigurator->>RegistryEnumerator: enumerate NRPTKeyPrefix matches
  RegistryEnumerator->>WindowsPolicyStore: read local and GPO subkeys
  WindowsPolicyStore-->>RegistryEnumerator: return matching key names
  RegistryEnumerator-->>DNSConfigurator: return owned keys
  DNSConfigurator->>WindowsPolicyStore: delete owned policy keys
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Description check ⚠️ Warning The description covers the changes, tests, checklist, and documentation, but it omits the required issue ticket number and link for a behavior change. Add the agreed issue ticket number and link, and clarify that cleanup behavior changes when the persisted or in-memory rule count is unavailable.
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Inline comments:
In `@client/internal/dns/host_windows.go`:
- Around line 368-371: Update the rule-creation flow around configureDNSPolicy
to track every local and batch rule path created during the invocation. If GPO
policy configuration fails, remove those paths before returning, and aggregate
any cleanup errors with the original configuration error while preserving the
existing rule-index context.
- Around line 559-561: Update the registry-open error handling in the
surrounding NRPT policy cleanup function: return an empty result only when the
error is registry.ErrNotExist, and propagate all other registry access or I/O
errors to removeDNSMatchPolicies instead of logging and returning nil, nil.
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