hermes vhost: dial netavark's host address, not the LAN IP (fixes the 502)

hermes-webui is Network=host, so 8787 is a bare host-netns bind, and netavark
DNATs only *published* ports. From Caddy's bridge netns 192.168.0.143:8787 and
10.89.1.1:8787 are both refused, while host.containers.internal:8787
(169.254.1.2) answers 200 — measured live 2026-09-16 from inside the Caddy
container. The dashboard's published 9119 answers on that same LAN IP, which is
what made the old upstream look sound.

The vhost comment asserted "192.168.0.143:8787 is open" from that bridge; it is
not, so the claim is replaced with the measurement, and the hermes-webui quadlet
comment carries the same correction. The seam guarding this invariant accepted
any numeric upstream, so the LAN IP passed it; it now pins the measured-working
form and fails on the LAN IP (teeth verified by substitution).

dankclaw/Caddyfile

@@ -176,12 +176,15 @@ pihole.franksdank.cloud {
 # here enters the http://:8016 auth chain. Internal-only by DNS absence: there is
 # no public Porkbun A record for this name, so only LAN clients (Pi-hole
 # addn-hosts → 192.168.0.143) can resolve it at all; DNS-01 issuance via the
-# Porkbun module needs no public record. Upstream is the host LAN IP rather than
+# Porkbun module needs no public record. Upstream is `host.containers.internal`
-# localhost because Caddy itself lives on dankclaw_default: from that bridge the
+# — netavark's host address, 169.254.1.2 — NOT the host LAN IP: hermes-webui is
-# gateway address 10.89.1.1 has nothing serving 8787 (connection refused), while
+# `Network=host`, so 8787 is a host-netns bind and not a published port, and
-# 192.168.0.143:8787 is open.
+# netavark DNATs only published ports (192.168.0.143:9119, the dashboard below,
+# answers from this bridge; 192.168.0.143:8787 does not). Measured live
+# 2026-09-16 inside the Caddy container: 192.168.0.143:8787 and 10.89.1.1:8787
+# both REFUSED, host.containers.internal:8787 → 200.
 hermes.franksdank.cloud {
-	reverse_proxy 192.168.0.143:8787
+	reverse_proxy host.containers.internal:8787
 }
 
 # --- Hermes dashboard (admin UI; published 9119 on dankclaw_default) --------

dankclaw/hermes/quadlet/hermes-webui.container

@@ -16,10 +16,12 @@
 # can drive the browser; a bridge-network client could not reach it at all.
 # The server binds 0.0.0.0:8787 of the host netns, and that is deliberate:
 # this unit is host-networked (the CDP daemon above needs a shared loopback), so
-# Caddy cannot reach it by container name and fronts the guarded vhost
+# Caddy cannot reach it by container name and fronts the vhost
-# hermes.franksdank.cloud with `reverse_proxy 192.168.0.143:8787` (see the
+# hermes.franksdank.cloud with `reverse_proxy host.containers.internal:8787`
-# hermes block in dankclaw/Caddyfile, which records the same constraint). A
+# (netavark's host address, 169.254.1.2) — not the host LAN IP, which Caddy's
-# loopback bind was tried on 2026-09-16 for a tighter posture and broke that
+# bridge netns cannot reach for a bare host-netns bind; the measured asymmetry
+# with published ports is recorded in the hermes block of dankclaw/Caddyfile.
+# A loopback bind was tried on 2026-09-16 for a tighter posture and broke that
 # vhost, because a bind is also the only way an off-host process can reach a
 # host-networked container: the LAN address and the tunnel's localhost hop are
 # both served by the wildcard, and a loopback-only bind serves only the latter.

tests/hermes_webui.bats

@@ -44,14 +44,24 @@ webui_service_yaml() {
     caddy="$REPO_ROOT/dankclaw/Caddyfile"
     grep -q 'HERMES_WEBUI_PASSWORD' <<< "$y" \
         || { echo "password gate missing"; return 1; }
-    # This unit is host-networked, so Caddy cannot reach it by container name:
+    # This unit is host-networked, so Caddy cannot reach it by container name.
-    # hermes.franksdank.cloud proxies to the host's LAN address. The app's bind
+    # The app's bind is load-bearing for that vhost — a loopback-only bind was
-    # is therefore load-bearing for that vhost — a loopback-only bind was tried
+    # tried on 2026-09-16 and broke it (502), while host networking means there
-    # on 2026-09-16 and broke it (502), while host networking means there is no
+    # is no port forwarder to bridge the gap.
-    # port forwarder to bridge the gap.
+    #
+    # The upstream must be netavark's HOST ADDRESS, not the host's LAN IP.
+    # 8787 is a bare host-netns bind and netavark DNATs only *published* ports,
+    # so from Caddy's bridge netns 192.168.0.143:8787 and 10.89.1.1:8787 are
+    # both refused, while host.containers.internal:8787 (169.254.1.2) answers
+    # 200 — measured 2026-09-16 from inside the Caddy container. The dashboard's
+    # published 9119 is reachable on the LAN IP precisely because it IS
+    # published. Pin the measured-working form so reverting to the LAN IP cannot
+    # pass silently.
     local upstream
-    upstream=$(grep -A 6 '^hermes\.franksdank\.cloud {' "$caddy" | grep -oE 'reverse_proxy [0-9.]+:[0-9]+' | head -1)
+    upstream=$(grep -A 6 '^hermes\.franksdank\.cloud {' "$caddy" | grep -oE 'reverse_proxy [^ {]+' | head -1)
     [ -n "$upstream" ] || { echo "no hermes vhost upstream in the Caddyfile"; return 1; }
+    grep -qE '^reverse_proxy (host\.containers\.internal|169\.254\.1\.2):8787$' <<< "$upstream" \
+        || { echo "hermes upstream is '$upstream', not netavark's host address (host.containers.internal:8787)"; return 1; }
     grep -q 'Environment=HERMES_WEBUI_HOST=0.0.0.0' <<< "$y" \
         || { echo "webui must bind all interfaces: $upstream cannot reach loopback"; return 1; }
 }