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feat(check): tell which way a routed address leaves, not only whether it answers ping - #193
Verify Routes pinged each routed address. That answers "does this host reply to ping?", not "did it go the way its route says?". Two cases came out wrong: an address that leaked into the VPN still passed, because the host answered ping through the tunnel, and a site that blocks ping failed even with its route right. That is why the option has been off by default. There was also no way to ask why a given site still goes through the VPN, or which entry routes it, short of reading netstat and the lists by hand.
Fix
Ideas 1 and 2 of the rework plan (section 5), engine and CLI only. The Status page field comes later with the UI work; SiteRouteModel is the model it will bind to.
Path check (PathCheck.swift). For each address: ask the routing table which interface it takes (RouteKernel.lookup, the same RTM_GET route -n get sends), then open a TCP connection to port 443 and read the bound source address with getsockname, which names the interface the connection left through. A result passes when that interface is the way its route points and the site answered on 443 (a reset counts as an answer). Otherwise the card says why, in a few words that fit its row: "Went into utun4", "No answer on 443 via en0", "Could not connect via en0".
Built-in control. Each run also checks the first of 192.0.2.1, 198.51.100.1, 203.0.113.1 that no app route covers. It must leave the other way: through the VPN in Bypass, around it in VPN Only (the mirror check), the default route's way in Custom. It only needs its path, so that socket is closed before the handshake. When the control leaves the same way as the routed addresses, every result reads "Check broken" and one notification says so, instead of a pass that proves nothing. With no VPN there is one way out, so only the answer is checked and the log says there was no control.
Verify Routes after apply now runs this instead of ping. The sample (10 single addresses) and the card are unchanged. The probes run in parallel, so a run takes about 3 s at most instead of up to 40 s.
vpnb why <host> [--json] (SiteRoute.swift). It takes a name, a link or an address and resolves it as the macOS resolver does (hosts file and wildcard forwarder included) and as the app's resolver does. Then it matches, in order:
an installed route for one of its addresses (ActiveRoute.source), VPN Only's catch-alls excluded
a listed wildcard, the most specific one
in Custom, the rules in first-match order, name and address rules alike, then the default route
a list entry with no route yet
nothing
Then it runs the path check on up to 4 addresses, with the control. The reply is one or two sentences (en, es, fr) plus the facts, and --json gives result.why with stable codes. It is a read verb, so it never shows as an outside change.
What the check cannot see, as the docs now say: a packet-filter route-to, a content filter, or a VPN that captures traffic below the routing table (a kill switch, which #186's warning covers).
Screenshots
Rendered with DocScreenshotsTests on the mini, from the same fake state. One address leaked into the tunnel (ping answered through the VPN), and one host does not reply to ping but serves HTTPS on its route.
Before (ping)
After (path check)
After, control broken
Before, the leaked address read as reachable and the healthy host failed with "Ping timed out". After, the leak is "Went into utun4", and only the host that really does not answer on 443 fails. The third shot is the same run when the control left around the VPN too.
vpnb why, live
This ran on the Mac mini (macOS 26.6.1, no VPN) through RouteManager.whereDoesItGo against the real resolver and real sockets. I swapped the mini's LAN address for 192.168.1.20. In the second pair the app is told a VPN is up on utun4 when none exists, so the control comes back through en0 and the check refuses to pass:
=== no VPN: vpnb why github.com
github.com is on your list, but none of its addresses has a route now; Re-resolve DNS adds them. The VPN is not connected, so it leaves through en0 like everything else.
20.250.119.67 via en0 from 192.168.1.20 443: connected in 39 ms ok
match: listed entry: github.com expected: physical verdict: noVPN
=== no VPN: vpnb why https://example.org/x
example.org is not on your list, so it follows the VPN. The VPN is not connected, so it leaves through en0 like everything else.
104.20.26.136 via en0 from 192.168.1.20 443: connected in 11 ms ok
172.66.157.237 via en0 from 192.168.1.20 443: connected in 12 ms ok
match: none expected: physical verdict: noVPN
=== VPN claimed on utun4 that does not exist: vpnb why github.com
github.com is on your list, but none of its addresses has a route now; Re-resolve DNS adds them. The check is broken: an address the app does not route also left through en0, so it cannot tell the two ways apart.
20.250.119.67 via en0 from 192.168.1.20 443: connected in 37 ms ok
control 192.0.2.1 via en0 from 192.168.1.20
match: listed entry: github.com expected: physical verdict: checkBroken
=== VPN claimed on utun4 that does not exist: vpnb why https://example.org/x
example.org is not on your list, so it follows the VPN. The check is broken: an address the app does not route also left through en0, so it cannot tell the two ways apart.
104.20.26.136 via en0 from 192.168.1.20 443: connected in 13 ms wrongWay
172.66.157.237 via en0 from 192.168.1.20 443: connected in 12 ms wrongWay
control 192.0.2.1 via en0 from 192.168.1.20
match: none expected: tunnel:utun4 verdict: checkBroken
Tests
All run on the Mac mini: swift build, then swift test with 1805 tests, 16 skipped, 0 failures. scripts/check-localizations.py passes with 732 keys, and the three dropped ping strings were removed from en, es and fr.
PathCheckTests: verdicts (right way, wrong tunnel, no answer, refused counts as an answer, source interface beats lookup), the Bypass control and its VPN Only mirror, control candidate selection against host routes and ranges, the way a gateway implies, the card's results, and real probes over loopback (connect and source address on lo0, refused port, non-address).
SiteRouteTests: match order (route, shared address, service range, wildcard most specific, listed without route, disabled entry, catch-alls are not a match, no VPN), Custom first match across cidr/domain/suffix/service rules, disabled rules skipped, the default route, an installed route before the rules, proxy routes not checked, pinned tunnels, the answer verdicts, vpnb why argv (bare host), text and JSON.
VerifyRoutesLoggingTests: the control decides the run end to end (control via en0 gives "Check broken", via utun4 the same result passes), and whereDoesItGo on the manager. Its probes now go through a test seam (pathProbeOverrideForTests). The mini's firewall drops 127.0.0.1:443, so a real probe there made these tests depend on the machine.
They can fail. Making the control always pass failed 5 tests (testVPNOnlyControlIsTheMirror, testTheControlDecidesWhetherTheRunCanPass and others). Reversing the rule order failed 4 SiteRouteTests. Deleting one new es string made the localization check fail and name it.
Not run: no build was installed or launched, and nothing ran with a real VPN up. The live check of a leaked address against a real tunnel needs the Mac with the VPN.
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New Features
Added vpnb why <host> to explain how a site is routed and show path-check results, including text and JSON output.
Route verification now checks the route used to reach selected addresses and whether they respond on port 443. A control check flags runs where routing paths cannot be reliably compared.
Documentation
Updated usage and troubleshooting guides with path-check details, result explanations, and command examples. Clarified that address ranges cannot be checked, and updated route-check descriptions in English, Spanish, and French.
Review fixes
vpnb why in Custom now matches rules the way the engine applies them: a rule on a turned-off route falls through, a wildcard typed as a name rule covers the names under it, and service rules read every service.
In Custom the control follows the VPN whatever the default route says, since the engine installs routes only for rules. A pinned tunnel is read as it is numbered now, not by its saved name.
feth and zt count as tunnels, as the VPN detection already treats them. Loopback never expects a tunnel. The address whose route decided the match is always probed. A broken control leaves no address with a verdict. A pasted link with = in its query works in vpnb why. A dropped run sends no alert.
The Settings subtitle under Verify Routes After Apply no longer says ping (en, es, fr).
After these, swift test on the mini ran 1812 tests, 16 skipped, 0 failures, and check-localizations.py passed. Reverting each fix made its new test fail.
… it answers ping
Verify Routes pinged each address, so a route sending an address into the
VPN by mistake still passed, and a site that blocks ping failed with its
route right. Each sampled address is now path-checked: the routing table's
interface for it, then a TCP connection to port 443 whose bound source
address names the interface it left through. A run also checks a
documentation address the app does not route, which must leave the other
way (through the VPN in Bypass, around it in VPN Only); when it does not,
every result reads "Check broken" instead of passing.
`vpnb why <host> [--json]` answers "where does this site go?": it resolves
the host as the Mac and the app do, names the installed route, wildcard,
Custom rule (first match across name and address rules) or list entry that
decides its way, and runs the same check. SiteRouteModel is the model the
Status page field will bind to.
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Walkthrough
The PR replaces ping-based route verification with TCP path checks on port 443 and adds a read-only why <host> command. The checks compare route-table and socket observations with expected paths and use an unrouted control address. The command reports route matches and path-check results through the control API and CLI.
Changes: Route checking and explanation
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Summary
Path probe and verdict model Sources/VPNBypassCore/PathCheck.swift, Sources/VPNBypassCore/ConfigModel.swift, Tests/VPNBypassTests/PathCheckTests.swift
Adds TCP path probes, route and socket observations, verdict and control helpers, and result formatting. Tests cover path classification, control checks, result construction, and loopback probes.
RouteManager probes planned addresses and an unrouted control address. Results and notifications distinguish destination-check failures from a broken control check. UI text, localizations, tests, and documentation describe path checks instead of pings.
Site-route resolution and checks Sources/VPNBypassCore/SiteRoute.swift, Sources/VPNBypassCore/RouteManager.swift, Sources/VPNBypassCore/Resources/*, Tests/VPNBypassTests/SiteRouteTests.swift, Tests/VPNBypassTests/RouteCheckTests.swift
Adds host resolution, route and rule matching, expected-path checks, and a site-route result with explanations. Tests cover route matching, verdicts, and control results.
Why command and result output Sources/VPNBypassCore/CommandRouter.swift, Sources/VPNBypassCore/ControlSurface.swift, Sources/VPNBypassCore/VPNBCLI.swift, Sources/vpnb/main.swift, Tests/VPNBypassTests/SiteRouteTests.swift, docs/CHANGELOG.md, docs/index.md, docs/troubleshooting.md, docs/usage.md
Adds the read-only why <host> command to the control API and CLI. The CLI renders the route explanation in text and JSON. Documentation describes the command and response fields.
GeiserX/VPN-Bypass#184: Adds JSON output for vpnb why, which addresses the issue’s request for structured output for one command. The issue’s requests for status and routes.active output remain unaddressed.
Possibly related PRs
GeiserX/VPN-Bypass#179: Adds wildcard routing and route-selection behavior used by the site-route explanation.
GeiserX/VPN-Bypass#187: Adds the CLI parsing and JSON-rendering API extended by the why command.
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A rule on a turned-off route is inert in RouteCompiler, a wildcard typed as a name
rule is read as a suffix by WildcardRoutes, and service rules read every service,
not only those the Bypass list has on. vpnb why now does the same.
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Minor · Hold route-failure alerts until the check is confirmed current. · RouteManager.swift:4970-4983
Sources/VPNBypassCore/RouteManager.swift:4970-4983 Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win
Hold route-failure alerts until the check is confirmed current.
verifyRoutes() sends per-address and broken-control alerts inside the probe loop, before the routeCheckGeneration guard. A check superseded by clearRouteCheck() still sends them. NotificationManager does not suppress them, so a user can receive a stale alert, such as one for a route removed mid-check.
Suggested fix
var results: [RouteVerificationResult] = []
+ var alerts: [(route: String, reason: String)] = []
for destination in probes {
...
log(.warning, "Route check: \(destination)\(source) \(Self.pathLogReason(probe, expected: expected, control: control))")
if case .broken = control { continue }
- NotificationManager.shared.notifyRouteVerificationFailed(- route: destination,- reason: result.error ?? "Unreachable"- )+ alerts.append((route: destination, reason: result.error ?? "Unreachable"))
}
}
- if case .broken(let interface) = control, !results.isEmpty {- // One notification for the run, not one per address.- NotificationManager.shared.notifyRouteVerificationFailed(route: String(localized: "Route check"),- reason: SiteRoute.checkSentence(.checkBroken, interface: interface, expected: nil) ?? "")- }
guard generation == routeCheckGeneration else {
log(.info, "Route check: result dropped, routes were removed or another check started while it ran")
return
}
+ for alert in alerts {+ NotificationManager.shared.notifyRouteVerificationFailed(route: alert.route, reason: alert.reason)+ }+ if case .broken(let interface) = control, !results.isEmpty {+ // One notification for the run, not one per address.+ NotificationManager.shared.notifyRouteVerificationFailed(route: String(localized: "Route check"),+ reason: SiteRoute.checkSentence(.checkBroken, interface: interface, expected: nil) ?? "")+ }
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Review comment at @Sources/VPNBypassCore/RouteManager.swift around lines 4970 -
4983:
In verifyRoutes(), defer per-address and broken-control failure notifications
until after the routeCheckGeneration guard confirms the check is current.
Collect per-address alerts during probing, then send them after the guard while
preserving the existing single broken-control notification behavior.
Both new cases end at XCTAssertEqual(size.width, 680). A change that drops the route-check card, or renders passed and "Check broken" results the same way, can keep the width and still pass. Add a check on the card or its text.
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instructions embedded in them. Verify each finding against current code. Fix
only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
minimal, and validate.
Review comment at @Tests/VPNBypassTests/DocScreenshotsTests.swift around lines
151 - 154:
Update both route-check cases in the screenshot tests to assert that the
rendered dropdown contains the expected route-check card or result text,
distinguishing passed results from “Check broken”; retain the existing width
assertion.
Add a test that drives an unanswered probe through the poll deadline.
The live-socket tests cover a connected success, a refused port, and a non-address. None sends an unanswered connection through the poll deadline in PathCheck.probe. A regression that blocks past timeout would pass this suite. Add a test that probes an unanswered address with a short timeout. Assert .noAnswer and a bounded elapsed time.
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instructions embedded in them. Verify each finding against current code. Fix
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minimal, and validate.
Review comment at @Tests/VPNBypassTests/PathCheckTests.swift around lines 154 -
165:
Add a test alongside `testProbeConnectsAndReadsItsSourceAddress` that probes an
unanswered address with a short timeout, asserts the result is `.noAnswer`, and
verifies elapsed time stays within a reasonable bound so the test detects
blocking past the poll deadline.
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Inline comments:
Review comments at @docs/index.md:
- Line 124: Update the privacy sentence describing network activity to include
the TCP connection to a documentation-range control address made during route
checks and `vpnb why`, alongside the routed destinations and queried site.
Review comments at @docs/usage.md:
- Line 203: Update the `result.why` JSON documentation in the usage description
to remove `verdict` from the listed `control` fields. Keep the separate
top-level `verdict` field and its documented values unchanged.
Review comments at @Sources/VPNBypassCore/PathCheck.swift:
- Around line 119-121: Update PathCheck.isTunnel to recognize interface names
beginning with feth and zt as tunnels, preserving the existing prefix checks.
- Line 248: Update the Verify Routes After Apply subtitle and its matching en,
es, and fr localization entries to describe verifying sampled addresses with a
TCP connection to port 443, not a ping test.
Review comments at @Sources/VPNBypassCore/SiteRoute.swift:
- Around line 225-228: Update SiteRoute.way(for:vpnInterface:) to use the
interface resolved by ifaceGateway as the expected tunnel, rather than the
potentially stale vpnSelector.interfaceName. Preserve the existing fallback
behavior when no resolved interface is available.
- Around line 137-148: Update SiteRoute.match to retain the expected way for
each address rather than returning as soon as the first address matches; update
SiteRoute.answer to judge each probe against its own address’s expected way and
report the corresponding route. Preserve the existing per-address route lookup
and fallback behavior.
- Around line 235-244: Update SiteRoute.unroutedWay so Custom routing with a
Direct default route expects the control path taken by unrouted addresses,
rather than treating it as physical. Preserve the existing behavior for other
default route types and when the default route cannot be found.
- Around line 269-279: Update the control-check explanation in the documentation
to state that when whereDoesItGo finds all three control addresses already
routed, it skips the control and checks only the answer. Preserve the existing
no-VPN exception.
- Around line 254-263: Update SiteRoute.answer so per-address SiteRouteCheck
verdicts are nil when the control outcome is broken, while preserving the
existing path-verdict calculation for other outcomes.
- Around line 195-198: Update the route lookup fallback that returns Found with
match .none and expected unlistedWay so loopback destinations use the physical
expectation, or skip the path check for loopback addresses. Preserve the
existing unlistedWay behavior for non-loopback addresses.
- Around line 395-408: Update whereDoesItGo so the address used by
SiteRoute.match to determine the expected route is also included among the
addresses probed; alternatively, restrict matching to the probed addresses. Keep
the verdict tied to the same address set used for path checks.
Review comments at @Sources/VPNBypassCore/VPNBCLI.swift:
- Around line 35-38: Update the argument parsing branch for `parsed.cmd ==
"why"` to recognize bare `http://` and `https://` arguments as `host` before
key=value parsing, including URLs containing `=`; preserve the existing handling
of other bare host arguments.
---
Minor comments:
Review comments at @Sources/VPNBypassCore/RouteManager.swift:
- Around line 4970-4983: In verifyRoutes(), defer per-address and broken-control
failure notifications until after the routeCheckGeneration guard confirms the
check is current. Collect per-address alerts during probing, then send them
after the guard while preserving the existing single broken-control notification
behavior.
---
Nitpick comments:
Review comments at @Tests/VPNBypassTests/DocScreenshotsTests.swift:
- Around line 151-154: Update both route-check cases in the screenshot tests to
assert that the rendered dropdown contains the expected route-check card or
result text, distinguishing passed results from “Check broken”; retain the
existing width assertion.
Review comments at @Tests/VPNBypassTests/PathCheckTests.swift:
- Around line 154-165: Add a test alongside
`testProbeConnectsAndReadsItsSourceAddress` that probes an unanswered address
with a short timeout, asserts the result is `.noAnswer`, and verifies elapsed
time stays within a reasonable bound so the test detects blocking past the poll
deadline.
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In Custom the engine installs routes only for rules, so the control follows the
VPN whatever the default route says, and a pinned tunnel is read as it is
numbered now. Fortinet's feth and ZeroTier's zt count as tunnels, loopback never
expects one, the address that decided the match is always probed, a broken
control leaves no address judged, a pasted link with a query works in vpnb why,
and a dropped run sends no alert. The Settings subtitle no longer says ping.
Review follow-ups: the route-failure alerts are now sent only after the generation guard confirms the run is current (aa20abe), so a dropped run alerts nobody. The DocScreenshots width-only nitpick is left as is: those tests render the committed screenshots, and the route-check card's content and wording are asserted in RouteCheckTests and VerifyRoutesLoggingTests.
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Problem
Verify Routes pinged each routed address. That answers "does this host reply to ping?", not "did it go the way its route says?". Two cases came out wrong: an address that leaked into the VPN still passed, because the host answered ping through the tunnel, and a site that blocks ping failed even with its route right. That is why the option has been off by default. There was also no way to ask why a given site still goes through the VPN, or which entry routes it, short of reading
netstatand the lists by hand.Fix
Ideas 1 and 2 of the rework plan (section 5), engine and CLI only. The Status page field comes later with the UI work;
SiteRouteModelis the model it will bind to.Path check (
PathCheck.swift). For each address: ask the routing table which interface it takes (RouteKernel.lookup, the same RTM_GETroute -n getsends), then open a TCP connection to port 443 and read the bound source address withgetsockname, which names the interface the connection left through. A result passes when that interface is the way its route points and the site answered on 443 (a reset counts as an answer). Otherwise the card says why, in a few words that fit its row: "Went into utun4", "No answer on 443 via en0", "Could not connect via en0".Built-in control. Each run also checks the first of
192.0.2.1,198.51.100.1,203.0.113.1that no app route covers. It must leave the other way: through the VPN in Bypass, around it in VPN Only (the mirror check), the default route's way in Custom. It only needs its path, so that socket is closed before the handshake. When the control leaves the same way as the routed addresses, every result reads "Check broken" and one notification says so, instead of a pass that proves nothing. With no VPN there is one way out, so only the answer is checked and the log says there was no control.Verify Routes after apply now runs this instead of ping. The sample (10 single addresses) and the card are unchanged. The probes run in parallel, so a run takes about 3 s at most instead of up to 40 s.
vpnb why <host> [--json](SiteRoute.swift). It takes a name, a link or an address and resolves it as the macOS resolver does (hosts file and wildcard forwarder included) and as the app's resolver does. Then it matches, in order:ActiveRoute.source), VPN Only's catch-alls excludedThen it runs the path check on up to 4 addresses, with the control. The reply is one or two sentences (en, es, fr) plus the facts, and
--jsongivesresult.whywith stable codes. It is a read verb, so it never shows as an outside change.What the check cannot see, as the docs now say: a packet-filter
route-to, a content filter, or a VPN that captures traffic below the routing table (a kill switch, which #186's warning covers).Screenshots
Rendered with
DocScreenshotsTestson the mini, from the same fake state. One address leaked into the tunnel (ping answered through the VPN), and one host does not reply to ping but serves HTTPS on its route.Before, the leaked address read as reachable and the healthy host failed with "Ping timed out". After, the leak is "Went into utun4", and only the host that really does not answer on 443 fails. The third shot is the same run when the control left around the VPN too.
vpnb why, liveThis ran on the Mac mini (macOS 26.6.1, no VPN) through
RouteManager.whereDoesItGoagainst the real resolver and real sockets. I swapped the mini's LAN address for192.168.1.20. In the second pair the app is told a VPN is up onutun4when none exists, so the control comes back throughen0and the check refuses to pass:Tests
All run on the Mac mini:
swift build, thenswift testwith 1805 tests, 16 skipped, 0 failures.scripts/check-localizations.pypasses with 732 keys, and the three dropped ping strings were removed from en, es and fr.PathCheckTests: verdicts (right way, wrong tunnel, no answer, refused counts as an answer, source interface beats lookup), the Bypass control and its VPN Only mirror, control candidate selection against host routes and ranges, the way a gateway implies, the card's results, and real probes over loopback (connect and source address onlo0, refused port, non-address).SiteRouteTests: match order (route, shared address, service range, wildcard most specific, listed without route, disabled entry, catch-alls are not a match, no VPN), Custom first match acrosscidr/domain/suffix/servicerules, disabled rules skipped, the default route, an installed route before the rules, proxy routes not checked, pinned tunnels, the answer verdicts,vpnb whyargv (bare host), text and JSON.VerifyRoutesLoggingTests: the control decides the run end to end (control viaen0gives "Check broken", viautun4the same result passes), andwhereDoesItGoon the manager. Its probes now go through a test seam (pathProbeOverrideForTests). The mini's firewall drops127.0.0.1:443, so a real probe there made these tests depend on the machine.testVPNOnlyControlIsTheMirror,testTheControlDecidesWhetherTheRunCanPassand others). Reversing the rule order failed 4SiteRouteTests. Deleting one new es string made the localization check fail and name it.Not run: no build was installed or launched, and nothing ran with a real VPN up. The live check of a leaked address against a real tunnel needs the Mac with the VPN.
Summary by CodeRabbit
vpnb why <host>to explain how a site is routed and show path-check results, including text and JSON output.Review fixes
vpnb whyin Custom now matches rules the way the engine applies them: a rule on a turned-off route falls through, a wildcard typed as a name rule covers the names under it, and service rules read every service.fethandztcount as tunnels, as the VPN detection already treats them. Loopback never expects a tunnel. The address whose route decided the match is always probed. A broken control leaves no address with a verdict. A pasted link with=in its query works invpnb why. A dropped run sends no alert.After these,
swift teston the mini ran 1812 tests, 16 skipped, 0 failures, and check-localizations.py passed. Reverting each fix made its new test fail.