milestone 28: query provenance — every logged query is exactly explainable

query rows gain qclass, rcode, group, policy action and reason, the
matched rule or list entry with its source, cname and safe-search
targets, route kind, forward zone, and the resolver that actually
answered — the pool and local markers die. servfails are logged and
name the resolver that lost; post-parse protocol refusals become rows.
a detail page at /queries/:id renders the ordered explanation, and
coverage watermarks distinguish an empty history from a missing one.

the schema fingerprint changes: existing query history is recreated
with the old file kept aside and the reset filed as a resolved
diagnostic. fixes an oversized udp reply being rebuilt as noerror,
which handed clients a truncated nxdomain as success.

CHANGELOG.md

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+## [Unreleased]
+
+Query provenance: every logged query becomes exactly explainable — what the policy decided, what matched, where the answer came from and what the client saw. The handler records all of it as the reply goes out, `query_log` stores it, and a detail page reads one query back in the order the pipeline decided it. Read the upgrade note below first: it resets your query history.
+
+### Added
+
+- **Every logged query has a detail page.** A row in the query log now links to `/queries/{id}`, which explains that one query in the order it was decided: the request, the group it was matched under, the policy verdict with the rule that produced it and the blocklist source that rule came from, any CNAME uncloaking or safe-search rewrite, the route the answer took — blocked, local, forward zone, upstream or cache — and what the client got back, RCODE and duration included. `GET /api/queries/{id}` serves the same object; an id that retention has already deleted is a 404. The live view carries the same provenance for the queries it streams, so a query is explainable as it happens as well as afterwards.
+- **The query log and the dashboard say how far back the history goes.** `GET /api/queries`, `/api/stats` and `/api/stats/timeseries` each carry a `coverage` object: `available_since`, the first second the file can answer for, and `complete`, whether the window you asked for begins inside it. A period that starts before the query log does now says so instead of charting the missing part as zero — which is what a recreate, a retention pass or a fresh install would otherwise look like.
+
+### Changed
+
+- **`GET /api/queries` rows changed shape.** Each row gains `qclass`, `rcode`, `policy_action`, `policy_reason` and `route_kind`, and `block_reason` is gone: the reason a query was blocked is now one of a closed set of values rather than a formatted string, and the status column reads it from `policy_reason`. `blocked`, `cache_hit`, `upstream` and every other existing field are unchanged.
+- **Upgrading resets your query history.** The `query_log` table gains the provenance columns below, and `querylog.db` is never migrated (it holds expendable log rows, so a schema change replaces the file instead of upgrading it). On the first start after the upgrade the old file is set aside as `querylog.db.schema-changed-<unix seconds>` and a fresh one is created. Nothing else is touched: `config.db` keeps your configuration and your diagnostics history. The recreate files a resolved `query_log.recreated` diagnostics entry naming the file that was kept and the timestamp the new history begins at, and a new `querylog_meta` table records that coverage start, so the dashboard can say "history is available from ..." instead of charting an empty range as zero. The set-aside file is a working SQLite database and can be deleted once you have decided you do not want it.
+- **`logging.query_log_buffer_max` now accepts 1 to 37449, down from 1 to 1000000.** The queued entry carries every new provenance field by value and is about four times as wide as before — 1792 bytes against 432 — so the meaningful bound is bytes rather than entries. The ceiling is computed at compile time from the width of the entry so that the queue's worst case stays within 64 MiB, and it moves whenever that width does. The default of 10000 is unchanged and costs about 17 MiB. A configuration above the new ceiling is rejected at startup with the ceiling in the message.
+- **Group and blocklist source names are now capped at 64 bytes.** Both are copied into every query-log row that mentions them, so an unbounded name was an unbounded cost per row. A longer name is rejected as `GroupNameTooLong` or `SourceNameTooLong`.
+
+### Fixed
+
+- **A UDP reply that has to be truncated keeps the answer's RCODE.** When an answer does not fit the client's UDP buffer, nxdns replaces it with an empty reply carrying the TC bit, which tells the client to retry over TCP. That replacement was always built as NOERROR, whatever the answer said — so an oversized NXDOMAIN reached the client as a success, and an EDNS extended RCODE above 15 lost the eight upper bits it needs an OPT record to carry. The truncated reply now carries the full twelve-bit code the answer had, split across the header and the reply's OPT record where the code needs it, and the query-log row records the code the client actually saw. The retry over TCP always returned the right RCODE; this was the UDP answer that preceded it.
+
 ## [0.0.8] - 2026-08-21
 
 One constant, chosen from the 0.0.7 field numbers: the checkpoint cadence was the last first-order write cost on the Pi's SD card.