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[client] Add Windows DNS configuration to the debug bundle - #7196

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Windows was the one platform whose debug bundle carried no DNS configuration at all, while Unix contributes resolv.conf and macOS contributes scutil output. Diagnosing a name resolution problem there meant asking the reporter to run registry and PowerShell commands by hand, and the answers were not comparable between reports. The bundle now collects the same picture itself, through the registry and iphlpapi rather than by shelling out.

  • Add dns_windows.txt to the bundle with the NRPT rules of both the local and the group policy store, the rules the client created marked as such, and rules from other products kept visible since they decide resolution too
  • Include the NRPT policy table the resolver currently has loaded, which differs from the written rules while a change has not been picked up, in either direction
  • Include the DNS client group policy, the global TCP/IP and Dnscache parameters, the DNS values of every interface that has any, and the resolver configuration in effect per adapter
  • Name each interface registry key by its adapter, so a GUID is readable and a key whose adapter no longer exists stands out
  • Export the registry locations the DNS host manager writes, so the reader reports the same locations rather than its own copies
  • Anonymize each value by what its name says it holds, rather than relying on the string pass, which only replaces domains another part of the bundle already contributed
  • Handle reverse DNS zones in the anonymizer: a zone names an address prefix, so it now follows the address rules and keeps its label shape, where before the arpa suffix was treated as a customer domain and the digit labels of an ip6.arpa zone were partly rewritten as addresses by the address pass

go-ole moves from an indirect to a direct dependency. It is already in the module graph through the WMI package, at the same version.

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  • New Features

    • Windows debug bundles now include DNS diagnostics covering resolver policies, NRPT rules, registry settings, and adapter configuration.
    • Reverse DNS zones for IPv4 and IPv6 are anonymized while preserving labels, prefixes, and trailing dots.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Invalid or non-reverse DNS zones remain unchanged during anonymization.
    • Windows DNS diagnostics preserve partial results when individual data sources cannot be accessed.
  • Documentation

    • Documented the Windows DNS diagnostics file and its anonymized contents.

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  • client/internal/debug/debug_windows.go
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The change adds IPv4 and IPv6 reverse DNS zone anonymization. It also adds Windows DNS diagnostics for NRPT, registry, interface, and adapter data in debug bundles.

DNS anonymization and Windows diagnostics

Layer / File(s) Summary
Reverse DNS zone anonymization
client/anonymize/anonymize.go, client/anonymize/reverse_zone.go, client/anonymize/reverse_zone_test.go
Reverse IPv4 and IPv6 zones are parsed, anonymized, reconstructed, and preserved during free-text processing. Tests cover valid, invalid, partial, and trailing-dot zones.
Windows NRPT policy inspection
client/internal/debug/nrpt_windows.go, client/internal/debug/debug_windows_test.go
The Windows implementation queries effective NRPT policy through COM and WMI, parses MOF instances, normalizes values, and handles timeouts and COM errors.
Windows DNS bundle collection
client/internal/debug/debug_windows.go, client/internal/debug/debug_windows_test.go
Debug bundles collect NRPT, registry, interface, and adapter DNS data. Domain and address values receive selective anonymization before writing dns_windows.txt.
Windows paths and platform wiring
client/internal/dns/host_windows.go, client/internal/debug/debug_nonunix.go, client/internal/debug/debug.go, go.mod
Windows registry paths are exported, platform build constraints are updated, the DNS bundle format is documented, and go-ole is declared as a direct dependency.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Mergeability Score: 🔵 Low · up to 45781

Windows debug-bundle collection may alter COM state by uninitializing an apartment it did not initialize, potentially affecting other COM-dependent work in the process. The change is otherwise diagnostics-only, but this bounded runtime risk should be addressed or explicitly accepted before merge.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant DebugBundle
  participant Registry
  participant NRPTPolicy
  participant Adapters
  participant Anonymizer
  DebugBundle->>Registry: read DNS policy and interface values
  DebugBundle->>NRPTPolicy: read effective NRPT entries
  DebugBundle->>Adapters: read adapter DNS configuration
  DebugBundle->>Anonymizer: anonymize domains and addresses
  Anonymizer-->>DebugBundle: return anonymized values
  DebugBundle-->>DebugBundle: write dns_windows.txt
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Inline comments:
In `@client/internal/debug/debug_windows.go`:
- Around line 190-193: Update the error branch after readRegistryValue in the
registry-value enumeration to write an error line identifying the affected name
and read failure before continuing. Preserve the existing behavior of skipping
the unavailable value while ensuring the bundle output does not silently omit
read errors.
- Around line 265-274: Update the adapter address handling near ip and servers
to convert the net.IP value with netip.AddrFromSlice, call Unmap on the
resulting address, and use the normalized netip.Addr for both output and
anonymization instead of ip.String(). Preserve skipping adapters when conversion
fails.

In `@client/internal/debug/nrpt_windows.go`:
- Around line 65-79: Bound the blocking nrptPolicyTableText query in the NRPT
retrieval flow so a stalled WMI provider cannot accumulate goroutines or locked
OS threads after the caller timeout. Update the code around the existing done
channel and nrptPolicyTimeout select to enforce a shared concurrency limit or
equivalent isolation, while preserving the current result parsing and timeout
error behavior.
- Around line 98-101: Update the initialization flow around coInitialize so
cleanup tracks ownership: return the error immediately for RPC_E_CHANGED_MODE
without registering ole.CoUninitialize, and defer ole.CoUninitialize only when
coInitialize returns S_OK or S_FALSE.
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  • client/anonymize/anonymize.go
  • client/anonymize/reverse_zone.go
  • client/anonymize/reverse_zone_test.go
  • client/internal/debug/debug.go
  • client/internal/debug/debug_nonunix.go
  • client/internal/debug/debug_windows.go
  • client/internal/debug/debug_windows_test.go
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  • client/internal/dns/host_windows.go
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