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Better-route checks re-probed dead routes every 60 s, each waiting out the 2.5 s timeout.

Metric	Before	After
ConnectionDriver.preflight (fleet, 24h)	~966/day, p50 4.3 s	—
Checks of a permanently dead route per connected environment	~1,440/day	~50/day

• Silent routes back off 2 → 4 → 8 → 16 → 30 min; a route that answers clears its backoff.
• Any network change (online, network-changed, long suspension) resets backoff, so a returning route is picked up immediately.
• Test: dead LAN route checked 3× in 10 min (was 10), and a network change still upgrades to LAN.

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The connection driver now returns distinct route preflight statuses. The supervisor uses those statuses to back off silent routes, retry them on schedule, and clear their recorded failures after selected connectivity changes and wakeups.

Changes: Route Preflight Backoff

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Return distinct route preflight statuses packages/client-runtime/src/connection/driver.ts, packages/client-runtime/src/connection/registry.test.ts, packages/client-runtime/src/connection/supervisor.test.ts	ConnectionDriver.preflight returns ready, unprepared, silent, or unchecked. The test harnesses preserve these outcomes, and the supervisor test harness can override preflight results.
Track and defer silent route preflights packages/client-runtime/src/connection/supervisor.ts	The supervisor increases silent-route retry delays exponentially, up to 30 minutes. Better-route checks skip routes during backoff and run at 60-second intervals. A generation counter prevents stale checks from recording failures after a reset.
Clear backoff after connectivity events packages/client-runtime/src/connection/supervisor.ts, packages/client-runtime/src/connection/supervisor.test.ts	The supervisor clears silent-route tracking after non-offline network changes and selected wakeups. Tests cover reduced LAN preflights, repeated checks for an unprepared route, and a network change during a pending route check.

Priority: Low

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Possibly related issues

• pingdotgg/t3code#24516 — The change adds exponential backoff for silent routes, addressing the repeated route-check cadence described in the issue. It does not change the socket teardown behavior noted there.

Suggested reviewers: t3dotgg, macroscopeapp, maria-rcks

Merge Risk: Low · up to ad7b6

Responding routes are no longer backed off when preparation fails. A focused driver test would protect that fix against regression, but no current behavior failure is established.

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Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title clearly identifies the client fix and its main effect: reducing repeated probes of dead connection routes.
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Review comments at @packages/client-runtime/src/connection/supervisor.ts:
- Around line 373-380: Track a reset generation in the supervisor and capture it
when the preflight begins; before the silentRoutes update in the preflight flow,
discard results if the generation changed. Increment the generation whenever the
network-change signal clears silentRoutes, so preflight results started before
that reset cannot reinsert stale failures.
- Around line 377-378: In the route update logic, keep the reachability-check
result separate from the `ConnectionDriver.preflight` preparation result; use
only an unanswered reachability check to apply `backOffSilentRoute`, while a
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Major · Functional Correctness · Heavy lift

Back off only routes that fail the reachability check.

When a route answers but resolver.prepare fails, ConnectionDriver.preflight returns false. This branch treats that responding route as silent. Repeated preparation failures can then delay another attempt for up to 30 minutes, even if preparation recovers without a network change. Preserve the check result separately from the preparation result, and apply silent-route backoff only to an unanswered check. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

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In the route update logic, keep the reachability-check result separate from the
`ConnectionDriver.preflight` preparation result; use only an unanswered
reachability check to apply `backOffSilentRoute`, while a responding route whose
preparation fails must remain eligible for another attempt without silent-route
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Verdict: Needs Human Approval

Macroscope's review found this PR requires human approval — Silent preferred routes now receive progressively fewer probes, capped at 30-minute intervals, while network-change and long-resume events reset the delay. Human review is required for this default change and its tradeoff between probe overhead and recovery latency.

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Add a production-driver test for the unprepared result.

1669-1674: Trivial · Maintainability & Code Quality · Quick win

Add a production-driver test for the unprepared result.

The new test at supervisor.test.ts:1665-1689 overrides preflight to return "unprepared". It never runs ConnectionDriver.preflight. The production code at driver.ts:204-218 maps an answered check with failed resolver.prepare to "unprepared". A change that maps that case to "silent" would pass the current tests. The supervisor would then back off a route that answers, which the PR intends to prevent.

The fixture also conflicts with the test name. The name says the route answers, but checkRoute returns "silent" for the bearer route. Under production preflight, a "silent" check returns "silent" without calling resolver.prepare. Fix the fixture only when the change keeps the connect path's route choice unchanged. Add a focused test that runs the real driver layer with an answered check and a failing resolver.prepare, and asserts "unprepared".

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Update the test around checkRoute and preflight to exercise the real
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preflight to return "unprepared"; preserve the existing connect-path route
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