app: name what a VPN blocked, and prove v6 broken before saying so

Constraints are detected up front (one throwaway bind per network) and land
in run.constraints, a measurement.vpn_constrained finding, the $7.3 verdict
(INCONCLUSIVE outright) and a banner on the run screen - a VPN'd run looked
exactly like a clean run of a healthy network before this.

v6.broken returns to the registry now that it can be earned: V6ConnectProbe
(v6.brokenness) makes a real TCP connection over IPv6 to the enrolled
server, and only both transports failing on a network that advertises IPv6
justifies the claim. TCP succeeding turns the finding into 'ICMPv6 is
filtered, IPv6 works' at high confidence instead.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
This commit is contained in:
mrambossek
2026-08-02 12:31:44 +02:00
co-authored by Claude Opus 5
parent 987b2ceb47
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// SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2026 Echolot contributors
// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
package app.echo_lot.probe
import app.echo_lot.measurement.Constraints
import app.echo_lot.measurement.Transport
import java.net.DatagramSocket
/**
* Detects what will prevent this run from measuring (measurement-schema.md §3 `constraints`),
* before any probe runs and independently of all of them.
*
* The known case: while a VPN holds the default route, Android refuses `Network.bindSocket()` on
* the underlying networks (EPERM) so apps cannot leak around the tunnel. Every per-network test
* then silently measures the tunnel or nothing, and the run comes out shaped exactly like a clean
* run of a healthy network. Detecting that here — one throwaway bind per network — is what lets
* the document say "these networks went unmeasured" instead of leaving the reader to infer it
* from a pattern of `attempted: false` scattered across the tests.
*/
object ConstraintDetector {
fun detect(entries: List<NetworkInventory.Entry>): Constraints {
val vpnActive = entries.any { it.model.transport == Transport.VPN }
val unmeasured = ArrayList<String>()
for (e in entries) {
// The tunnel itself stays bindable — it is the underlying networks the OS walls off.
if (e.model.transport == Transport.VPN) continue
val bindable = runCatching {
DatagramSocket().use { s -> e.handle.bindSocket(s) }
true
}.getOrDefault(false)
if (!bindable) unmeasured.add(e.model.id)
}
return Constraints(
vpnActive = vpnActive,
perNetworkBlocked = unmeasured.isNotEmpty(),
unmeasuredNetworks = unmeasured,
)
}
}
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// SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2026 Echolot contributors
// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
package app.echo_lot.probe
import android.content.Context
import app.echo_lot.measurement.Test
import app.echo_lot.measurement.TestStatus
import app.echo_lot.measurement.TestType
import app.echo_lot.measurement.Tier
import app.echo_lot.measurement.Network as MNetwork
import kotlinx.coroutines.Dispatchers
import kotlinx.coroutines.withContext
import kotlinx.serialization.json.JsonObject
import kotlinx.serialization.json.buildJsonObject
import kotlinx.serialization.json.put
import java.net.Inet6Address
import java.net.InetSocketAddress
import java.util.Locale
/**
* v6.brokenness — does IPv6 actually carry traffic, asked with a real TCP connection.
*
* This exists to corroborate (or refute) the ICMPv6 silence that icmp.ping6 observes. ICMPv6 echo
* is widely filtered on networks where IPv6 works fine, so silence alone cannot distinguish
* "IPv6 is broken" from "ping is filtered" — a phone that reported v6.broken while happily
* loading IPv6-only sites is what proved the point. A TCP connect over IPv6 to the configured
* server settles it: if it succeeds, IPv6 works and the ICMP silence is filtering; if it fails
* too, on a network that advertises IPv6, the brokenness claim finally has evidence behind it.
*
* Only networks that claim to offer IPv6 (a global address or a v6 default route) are attempted:
* connecting over v6 on an IPv4-only network fails by design, and recording that as evidence
* would manufacture the exact false positive this probe exists to kill.
*/
class V6ConnectProbe(
private val entries: List<NetworkInventory.Entry>,
private val serverHost: String,
private val port: Int = 443,
) : Probe {
override val type = TestType.V6_BROKENNESS
override val tier = Tier.APP
// One 3s connect timeout per v6-provisioned network, at most.
override val estimatedMs = 4_000L
override suspend fun run(ctx: Context, ids: ProbeIds): Test = withContext(Dispatchers.IO) {
val b = TestBuilder(type, tier, ids)
// Same rule as the STUN and canary probes: with no server there is no target, and
// borrowing someone else's infrastructure to get one is not this app's call to make.
if (serverHost.isBlank()) {
return@withContext b.build(
TestStatus.SKIPPED,
evidence = buildJsonObject { put("reason", "no server configured to connect to") },
)
}
val candidates = entries.filter { ipv6Provisioned(it.model) }
if (candidates.isEmpty()) {
return@withContext b.build(
TestStatus.SKIPPED,
evidence = buildJsonObject {
put("reason", "no active network claims to offer IPv6")
},
)
}
var okCount = 0
var attemptedCount = 0
val evidence: JsonObject = buildJsonObject {
put("target", "$serverHost:$port")
for (e in candidates) {
val label = "${e.model.transport.name.lowercase()}:${e.model.id}"
val a = attempt(e)
if (a.attempted) attemptedCount++
if (a.ok) okCount++
put(label, buildJsonObject {
put("network_ref", e.model.id)
put("ok", a.ok)
put("attempted", a.attempted)
put("detail", a.detail)
})
}
}
val status = when {
attemptedCount == 0 -> TestStatus.SKIPPED // resolution/binding never got that far
okCount == attemptedCount -> TestStatus.OK
okCount > 0 -> TestStatus.PARTIAL
else -> TestStatus.FAILED
}
b.build(status, evidence = evidence)
}
/** Same attempted/ok separation as IcmpProbe: a connect we never sent proves nothing. */
private data class Attempt(val ok: Boolean, val attempted: Boolean, val detail: String)
private fun attempt(e: NetworkInventory.Entry): Attempt {
// Resolved through this network's own resolver; a v6 address obtained over another
// network would still be connected to over this one, which is what matters.
val addr = runCatching {
e.handle.getAllByName(serverHost).filterIsInstance<Inet6Address>().firstOrNull()
}.getOrNull()
?: return Attempt(false, false, "no AAAA answer for $serverHost via this network")
// createSocket() binds to the network at creation; failing here means the app could not
// use the interface at all (e.g. EPERM under a VPN) — nothing was sent, nothing is known.
val socket = try {
e.handle.socketFactory.createSocket()
} catch (t: Throwable) {
return Attempt(false, false, "socket unavailable: ${t.message ?: t.javaClass.simpleName}")
}
return try {
val t0 = System.nanoTime()
socket.connect(InetSocketAddress(addr, port), 3000)
val rttMs = (System.nanoTime() - t0) / 1_000_000.0
Attempt(true, true, "connected to [${addr.hostAddress}]:$port " +
"rtt_ms=${"%.1f".format(Locale.ROOT, rttMs)}")
} catch (t: Throwable) {
// A refused connection would still prove the path forwards IPv6, but against our own
// server's 443 the realistic failures are timeout and unreachable — both silence.
Attempt(false, true, "error: ${t.message ?: t.javaClass.simpleName}")
} finally {
runCatching { socket.close() }
}
}
/** The network claims IPv6: a global (non-link-local) address or a v6 default route. */
private fun ipv6Provisioned(n: MNetwork): Boolean =
n.link.addresses.any { a ->
a.addr.contains(':') &&
!a.addr.startsWith("fe80", ignoreCase = true) &&
!a.addr.startsWith("::1")
} || n.link.routes.any { it.dst == "::/0" }
}