Notes from building KNJ Panel, in the order it actually happened.
blog /blɒɡ/ noun — 1. A web log. 2. Here: a build log. What we built, what broke, and what we learned.
A follow-up to the previous day’s webmail DNS-shortcut work, picked up from the DNS-only comparison audit: ftp.<domain> and account and controller panel shortcuts were the next candidates, and…
Read more →The last item picked up that day: closing a gap deferred back on 2026-07-25. The roadmap and the zone service’s own notes listed webmail.<domain> as a service-discovery record…
Read more →Last item on the day’s list: a page-by-page comparison of a standard DNS-only nameserver product against our own DNS-only role, to catch anything a genuine nameserver operator would…
Read more →The last piece of the day’s plan, and deliberately a different lens from the audits that ran earlier: those covered auth, injection and authorization; this pass hunted for…
Read more →A second role-scoped audit, reviewing the whole Mail Only satellite role on its own terms: role gating, the mail-dispatch channel, every Mail Only action in the privileged install…
Read more →Every audit so far had scoped itself to “everything changed since the last one.” This one reviews the DNS Only role end to end regardless of when each…
Read more →A large window since Audit #11, covering the DNS-only role’s remaining buildout, the first-run setup wizard, two-key server linking, and the full Mail Only work. It was reviewed…
Read more →Three loose ends left from Stages 3 and 4, all the same shape: a feature that worked correctly on Main but was never wired through the provisioning runner,…
Read more →An admin on Main had no way to reach a linked satellite’s own admin area without a second login. Every satellite, DNS Only or Mail Only, is a…
Read more →Closed out the last piece of Stage 3: Service Status, both the admin page and the dashboard widget, did not know mail might be running on a linked…
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