The probe counted any well-formed packet from the server as "the server answers", checking only the transaction id and a minimum length. REFUSED and SERVFAIL are well-formed packets. So a server actively refusing this client would have been reported as healthy, and the finding — whose whole output is "the network is fine, your device is not" — would have pointed confidently at the wrong component. It now requires rcode 0 and at least one record, and reports a refusal as what it is: a working server saying no, which points back at the network. The rcode is named rather than numbered, because "REFUSED" is a fact an operator can act on and "rcode 5" is a lookup. Caught by decoding what fmr's router actually replied — ab cd 81 80 00 01 00 02, NOERROR with two answers — after realising the earlier check only counted bytes. The reply was genuinely good, so the finding on the tablet stands; the check was wrong regardless. The advice is broader too. That tablet's fault survived a reboot, which makes "toggle wifi and it clears" wrong as a flat claim: it now says what to look at when a restart does not fix it — something on the device filtering DNS, or a per-client rule on the router. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Echolot app
The production Android client (spec). Native Kotlin + Jetpack Compose. Multi-module; built bottom-up from a verifiable protocol spine.
Modules
| Module | Type | Status |
|---|---|---|
core-protocol |
pure Kotlin/JVM | done — client half of probe-protocol.md, verified live against the server |
core-measurement |
pure Kotlin/JVM | planned — measurement-schema.md types |
core-probe |
Android lib | planned — app-tier probes, ported from echolot-prober |
core-shizuku |
Android lib | planned — dual-path executor (UserService + newProcess fallback) |
app |
Android app | planned — Compose UI |
core-protocol is deliberately Android-free so it builds and unit-tests on any JDK (no Android
SDK) and can run integration tests against a live server.
core-protocol
Implements the control plane (SPKI-pinned enrollment/profile/sessions via HttpsURLConnection —
Android-API-1 compatible, hostname verification off because trust is the pin), the HKDF-SHA256
session-key schedule, and the binary ELT1 UDP data plane (HMAC gate, ECHO + observation block,
MTU probe) — byte-compatible with the Go server.
./gradlew :core-protocol:test # unit tests (crypto vectors, wire round-trip)
scripts/test-fmr.sh # live end-to-end test against the deployed server
test-fmr.sh mints an enrollment token over SSH, enrolls via the public control plane, computes
the SPKI pin from the served cert, and runs LiveServerTest — proving the client speaks the wire
protocol to the real server (enroll → profile → session → echo+observation → MTU → observations).
The live test self-skips when ECHOLOT_LIVE_* env vars are absent, so unit runs and CI stay green
offline.