Two cold mints in a row died with cloud-init 'status: error' on a host
the doctor had just certified clean — so the earlier "leftover mutations
poisoned the network" theory is dead, and the DNS failure is
reproducible rather than transient.
'claudebox new' printed four hundred dots and the word "error", leaving
the user with nothing to act on: the reason was in the box's own log and
nobody was told the log existed. It now prints cloud-init's status, the
fetch/resolve errors from the box's log, and how to inspect the box —
which is left running, because a box that failed to build is evidence,
not garbage. It also names the usual culprit: the host's resolver.
doctor.sh gains the diagnosis that keeps being done by hand:
· what the HOST resolves through, and whether that is a CGNAT/Tailscale
resolver the boxes inherit (issue #33);
· whether claudenet's resolver is pinned;
· and inside a box, the question that settles it — DNS is broken, but
can it still reach 1.1.1.1 BY ADDRESS? If yes, egress is fine and the
fault is purely the inherited forwarder.
· --pin-dns applies the #33 fix (raw.dnsmasq: no-resolv + public
servers) so the hypothesis can be TESTED rather than argued.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
