The MQTT publisher now tracks connection state, publish counters, discovery
and availability timestamps, and the last error, exposed at /api/mqtt and on
the dashboard as an MQTT card and a Home Assistant section. Connection
failures, disconnects, and dropped publishes are logged; paho's
on_connect_fail callback was not registered before, so failed attempts were
silent. MQTT connect, disconnect, and unreachable events go to the timeline.
When a connection attempt fails the service runs a probe from inside the
container: system resolver, each nameserver from resolv.conf queried directly,
/etc/hosts, and a TCP connect to every address found. The result is shown as
a summary and raw JSON on the dashboard and can be rerun via
POST /api/mqtt/probe.
The image base moves from Alpine to Debian slim. musl queries all
nameservers in parallel and accepts the first reply, so a fast public
NXDOMAIN beats a slower local server that knows the name. glibc asks the
nameservers in order.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
