docs: answer the GLAS-WP-0015 tenant question and record the DNS hazard
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Probing the handed-over Service DNS name from the workstation found that
every *.svc.cluster.local name resolves here to one unrelated public
address via the ad.binect.de search suffix -- including names of services
that do not exist, which proves it is suffix expansion and not a record.

Pointing SECRETS_ENGINE_PDP_URL at the Service name would send the
CheckRequest body (subject, tenant, lane ids, stage, field names, purpose)
and the static Bearer token to that host. Decision envelopes are
structurally validated but not signed, so a responder knowing the package
and version can return a well-formed allow; the fail-closed posture
assumes the PDP is the PDP.

Not mitigated here: choosing the transport control is the owners' call,
not this consumer's. Recommended to FLEX-WP-0021-T05 that the handover be
a trailing-dot FQDN or explicit address, with the response channel's
authentication stated. Our pin stays unset, so the hazard is theoretical.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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- A supported owner access path to `flex-auth-secrets-engine` for a workstation
CLI. Service DNS is not workstation connectivity, so the tenant fix above is
necessary but not sufficient for activation (`FLEX-WP-0021-T05`).
## Hazard: the Service DNS name resolves here, to the wrong host
Probed from the workstation 2026-09-06. This is worse than "not reachable" and
is the reason the access path must be handed over explicitly rather than assumed
from a Service name.
```text
$ getent hosts flex-auth-secrets-engine.flex-auth.svc.cluster.local
80.158.43.29 flex-auth-secrets-engine.flex-auth.svc.cluster.local.ad.binect.de
$ getent hosts this-service-does-not-exist.flex-auth.svc.cluster.local
80.158.43.29 this-service-does-not-exist.flex-auth.svc.cluster.local.ad.binect.de
$ getent hosts flex-auth-secrets-engine.flex-auth.svc.cluster.local. # trailing dot
(no resolution)
```
`/etc/resolv.conf` carries `search ad.binect.de fritz.box`, and `ad.binect.de`
answers wildcard, so **every** `*.svc.cluster.local` name resolves on this
workstation to one unrelated public address. A nonexistent service resolves
identically, which proves it is suffix expansion rather than any real record.
Consequences if `SECRETS_ENGINE_PDP_URL` were pointed at the Service name from a
workstation:
- The `POST /v1/check` body — subject id/type, tenant, lane/resource ids, stage,
declared field names, purpose — would go to an arbitrary internet host. It
contains no secret values, but it is a structural map of the estate's
credential lanes.
- The static Bearer token would be sent to that host.
- Decision envelopes are structurally validated but **not signed**. A responder
that knows the package name and version can return a well-formed
`effect: allow`, and this engine's checks would pass it. The fail-closed
production posture assumes the PDP is the PDP.
This is not fixed here, because choosing the transport control is the owners'
call, not this consumer's. Recommended for `FLEX-WP-0021-T05`: hand over a
trailing-dot FQDN or an explicit address, and state the authentication of the
response channel (mTLS, or a signed envelope) rather than leaving an unsigned
allow over plaintext HTTP as the contract. This engine keeps its pin unset in
the meantime, which is why the hazard is currently theoretical.