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Fran Bull 37e175a032 feature/conn25: send ICMP errors back to sources
if we can't find a mapping for the magic IP they're sending traffic to.

Fixes tailscale/corp#34257

Signed-off-by: Fran Bull <fran@tailscale.com>
2026-07-20 07:33:00 -07:00
Michael Ben-Amiandmzbenami 7ec9b7ffa3 feature/conn25: preserve TTL on DNS rewrites
We were accidentally hardcoding TTL 0 before.

Fixes tailscale/corp#45025

Signed-off-by: Michael Ben-Ami <mzb@tailscale.com>
2026-07-17 10:27:14 -04:00
Michael Ben-Amiandmzbenami b2de420e3d feature/conn25,types/appctype: serve active Conn25 state over localapi
At /v0/conn25-state.

State includes whether the node is configured for Connectors 2025, as
well as client-specific and connector-specific state, if the node is
acting in those contexts.

Client-specific state includes the reserved Magic IPs and Transit IPs on
the client that have not been returned to their IP pools, and their
associated apps, domains, real destination IPs, and active flow counts.

We also report IP pool utilization: the number of magic and transit IPs
in use versus each pool's capacity, split by IP family.

Connector-specific state includes a peer list of clients that have
registered Transit IPs with the connector, and the apps are real
destination IPs the Transit IPs map to.

Updates tailscale/corp#40125

Signed-off-by: Michael Ben-Ami <mzb@tailscale.com>
2026-07-16 16:35:38 -04:00
Brad FitzpatrickandBrad Fitzpatrick 3515b009c2 ipn/ipnext, ipn/ipnlocal, feature/conn25: pass peer seq to AllowedIPs hook
The ExtraWireGuardAllowedIPs hook was called once per peer on every
authReconfig, so each netmap delta paid an O(n) scan over all peers
even when conn25 (the only implementer) wasn't configured and every
call returned nothing.

Invert the API: the hook now receives an iter.Seq2 of the current
peers and returns the extra prefixes keyed by node ID. An idle
extension returns nil without iterating, so the unconfigured case
does no per-peer work at all.

With this, the runtime.DidRange analysis (see the ts_rangehook test)
no longer reports the updateRouteManagerExtras peer scan on netmap
deltas.

Updates #12542

Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
Change-Id: I9181e77416fa22f4c904620d42e9bcb934165216
2026-07-15 10:12:58 -04:00
Michael Ben-Amiandmzbenami c9b5a918ce feature/conn25: add client metrics for dns response rewrite errors and remove
noisy logs

Remove most logs in mapDNSResponse() that could potentially be spammed by
a misbehaving or abusive DNS client or resolver.

Keep logs, and complement with metrics, for failed rewrites, as they
likely point to an internal error, e.g. ip pools exhausted. Metrics
allow for potential alerting in the future.

Updates tailscale/corp#40125
Updates tailscale/corp#40126

Signed-off-by: Michael Ben-Ami <mzb@tailscale.com>
2026-07-14 15:31:33 +00:00
Fran BullandMichael Ben-Ami 85d8644215 feature/conn25: keep mappings with active flows
Conn25 hands out dummy IP addresses for use in the connector flow from
limited address pools. When the addresses are no longer in use we expire
the corresponding entry from our table of address mappings and return
the addresses to their pools for reuse.

We currently expire addresses after the DNS TTL for the DNS response
that caused the mappings to be created.

Stop expiring mappings when there are active packet flows for the
addresses in the mappings.

Fixes tailscale/corp#43180

Co-authored-by: Fran Bull <fran@tailscale.com>
Co-authored-by: Michael Ben-Ami <mzb@tailscale.com>
Signed-off-by: Fran Bull <fran@tailscale.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ben-Ami <mzb@tailscale.com>
2026-06-30 13:56:21 -07:00
Adrian DewhurstandAdrian Dewhurst 477d5a43df ipn/ipnlocal, feature/conn25: add hook for accepting PeerAPI DNS
Currently, PeerAPI DNS is only allowed if
1. The peer is owned by the same user as this device, or
2. The node is an exit node or app connector
  a. and the peer has access to a hypothetical DNS server at 0.0.0.0:53
     (which approximately means "the peer has access to
     autogroup:internet")

None of this is useful for conn25. This adds the most basic of hooks
(and converts the existing logic to a hook, which should improve clarity
and lead to the possibility of moving the existing checks into feature
packages in future).

There is an extra filter based on the name being queried that is
performed later. It refuses names in
tailcfg.DNSConfig.ExitNodeFilteredSet. That filter is not modified by
this change.

With this change, if conn25 is configured as a connector, then all
PeerAPI DNS queries are permitted (still subject to the
ExitNodeFilteredSet as noted above).

More work is required: the goal before release (i.e. the WIPCode check
is removed) is that each query should be checked against the list of
domains in the requested conn25 app. For now, this only verifies that
conn25 is configured (and does not include the autogroup:internet
check, which is not how conn25 grants will operate when implemented,
soon).

This change has been manually tested against the scenario outlined in
tailscale/corp#40117; unfortunately the code's structure makes writing a
unit test difficult. The more comprehensive changes needed for
tailscale/corp#40076 should include an integration test that covers this
case.

The hook must go in the ipnlocal package rather than the usual extension
host to prevent a circular dependency on the ipnlocal.PeerAPIHandler
interface. Registering PeerAPI handlers uses a similar strategy, likely
because of, at least in part, this same problem.

Updates tailscale/corp#40076
Fixes tailscale/corp#40117

Change-Id: I367714170b509d7a421f62672e5824b3590c2b9c
Signed-off-by: Adrian Dewhurst <adrian@tailscale.com>
2026-06-29 16:33:33 -04:00
Naman SoodandGitHub 47333e9487 feature/conn25: recreate transit IP mappings when connector loses them
Mappings from transit IPs to real IPs are stored ephemerally in the
connector, so they're lost on restart. When we send a packet to the
connector with a transit IP it does not recognize, it sends us a TSMP
message saying so (see #19883). If we (the client) know of such a
mapping, we now re-send it to the connector so that a connection can
proceed.

Fixes tailscale/corp#34256.

Signed-off-by: Naman Sood <mail@nsood.in>
2026-06-17 13:50:51 -04:00
Michael Ben-Amiandmzbenami 6f281ccbcd feature/conn25: add on-remove hook for flows in FlowTable
The hook fires when a flow is removed for any reason (LRU capacity eviction,
tuple-collision displacement, or idle-time expiry). The hook is invoked
exactly once per flow, after the flow table mutex is released, so callbacks
may safely acquire other locks.

We rename the IPMapper interface to Conn25Datapath, and add
ClientFlowCreated/ClientFlowRemoved methods so *Conn25 can keep client-side
address assignments alive while traffic is in flight. Those methods are
currently stubbed for future work.

Connector flows do not currently call these methods.

Updates tailscale/corp#38630
Updates tailscale/corp#43180

Signed-off-by: Michael Ben-Ami <mzb@tailscale.com>
2026-06-12 10:44:42 -04:00
Michael Ben-Amiandmzbenami 618b606b46 feature/conn25: expire idle flows from FlowTable
Track lastSeen on each cached flow and add a sweeper goroutine
that periodically removes flows idle past the idle timeout.

Introduce tunables for idle timeout, maximum flows removed per sweep (to
limit mutex hold time), and the sweeper interval.

Also cap the previously-unlimited tables: 10k client flows, 100k
connector flows.

Updates tailscale/corp#38630

Signed-off-by: Michael Ben-Ami <mzb@tailscale.com>
2026-06-08 11:03:25 -04:00
Naman Sood da51072b98 feature/conn25: send TSMP message to client for no IP mapping on connector
When a connector receives a packet from a client on a transit IP that it
can't find a real IP mapping for, it drops the packet. This commit
starts notifying the client of this dropping over TSMP, so the client
can tell the connector to re-establish the transit IP-real IP binding.

Updates tailscale/corp#34256.

Signed-off-by: Naman Sood <mail@nsood.in>
2026-06-01 14:46:27 -04:00
Fran Bull c9333854fb appc,feature/conn25: use custom scheme resolvers for conn25
Currently we are picking a peer for the split dns routes when we get a
netmap. Use the new custom scheme resolvers, installed per app in the
config in the netmap, to allow us to choose which connector peer should
handle a DNS request at the time the request is made.

Fixes tailscale/corp#39858

Signed-off-by: Fran Bull <fran@tailscale.com>
2026-05-29 12:23:47 -07:00
Fran Bull 3d5102090f feature/conn25: use new pool nodeattr
We have been reading the pool config from the app nodeattr, but it is
global config, not per app, so it needs to be its own thing.

Updates tailscale/corp#39999

Signed-off-by: Fran Bull <fran@tailscale.com>
2026-05-29 08:29:34 -07:00
Fran Bull 2eb45c2457 feature/conn25: extend assignment expiry on use
When we use assigned addresses in response to a DNS request, extend the
expiry on the assignment.

Updates tailscale/corp#39975

Signed-off-by: Fran Bull <fran@tailscale.com>
2026-05-26 07:28:47 -07:00
Fran Bull dbe92f98b5 feature/conn25: set assignment expiry based on dns response TTL
Updates tailscale/corp#39975

Signed-off-by: Fran Bull <fran@tailscale.com>
2026-05-21 07:25:29 -07:00
Fran Bull 3a6261b79b feature/conn25: keep addrAssignments through pool reconfig
Fixes tailscale/corp#40250

Signed-off-by: Fran Bull <fran@tailscale.com>
2026-05-13 11:00:47 -07:00
Fran Bull 2f45a6a9d8 feature/conn25: return expired assignments to address pools
Make it possible to remove the least recently used expired address
assignment from addrAssignments.
Before checking out a new address from the IP pools, return a handful of
expired addresses.

Updates tailscale/corp#39975

Signed-off-by: Fran Bull <fran@tailscale.com>
2026-05-08 14:33:06 -07:00
Fran Bull 82346f3882 feature/conn25: move addrAssignments to their own file
Updates tailscale/corp#39975

Signed-off-by: Fran Bull <fran@tailscale.com>
2026-05-08 14:33:06 -07:00
Fran Bull ee2378b141 feature/conn25: follow CNAMEs when rewriting DNS response
If a DNS query for a domain that should be routed through a connector
results in CNAME records in the response, collapse the CNAME chain to an
A/AAAA record for the domain -> magic IP.

Fixes tailscale/corp#39978

Signed-off-by: Fran Bull <fran@tailscale.com>
2026-05-08 08:12:24 -07:00
George JonesandGitHub 290a6cc03c appc, feature/conn25: handle exact and wildcard domains correctly (#19202)
Installed SplitDNS routes are always treated as wildcard domains,
so the domains that we pass to the local resolver should be normalized
and have any leading *. wildcard prefix removed.

When looking at DNS responses to see if the domain matches, we need to
consider both exact matches and wildcard matches. We now keep separate
maps of exact-match domains and wildcard domains, and when we match we
check to see if there's a match in the exact-match map, otherwise we
check against the wild card match map until we find a match, removing
a label after each check.

Rather than looking for matching self-hosted domains (domains serviced
by the connector being run on the self-node), the apps that are being
serviced by the connector on the self-node are tracked instead. When
checking to see if a DNS response should be rewritten, it is ignored
if any of the matching apps for the domain are in the self-hosted apps set.

Fixes tailscale/corp#39272

Signed-off-by: George Jones <george@tailscale.com>
2026-05-01 17:33:21 -04:00
Michael Ben-Amiandmzbenami 822299642b feature/conn25: centralize config on Conn25 with atomic access
We have two sources of truth for configuration state: the node view
(from the netmap/policy) and prefs (the --advertise-connector option).
These come with two independent update paths: onSelfChange for node view
changes and profileStateChange for pref changes.

Centralize config on Conn25 so that onSelfChange and profileStateChange
can update their independent parts without bundling changes together.
The old bundled approach required read-modify-write, which opened the
door to potential TOCTOU bugs. The node view config is
stored as an atomic.Pointer[config] and the prefs-derived field
(advertise-connector) becomes an independent atomic.Bool. onSelfChange
creates a fresh config and stores it atomically. profileStateChange sets
the bool.

This also establishes clearer lines of responsibility:

 - Configuration state lives on Conn25. Methods that need to read
   config (isConnectorDomain, mapDNSResponse, the IPMapper methods)
   are on Conn25, and use the atomics for synchronization.

 - "Active" state (address allocations, transit IP mappings) lives on
   client and connector, and use a mutex for synchronization on that
   state, without conflicting with configuration synchronization.
   It's fine for active state to be out of sync with config — e.g. a
   transit IP allocated for an app should still be tracked, and gracefully
   expired, even if the app is removed from the node view.
   Removing config responsibility from client/connector makes these
   cases clearer to handle.

 - In cases where the client or connector does need access to
   config-derived state, e.g. a client reconfiguring its IP pools from
   the IPSets in the config, we can use closures for the
   client or connector to get just the latest state it needs from the
   config. See getIPSets() in this commit.

 - As of this commit, the connector doesn't need config-derived state at
   all.

Fixes tailscale/corp#40872

Signed-off-by: Michael Ben-Ami <mzb@tailscale.com>
2026-04-30 16:29:56 -04:00
Fran Bull d7916d4369 feature/conn25: add expiresAt field to addrs
And use it to allow overwrites of old address assignments in the conn25 client.

The magic and transit address pools from which the addresses come are limited
resources and we want to reuse them. This commit is a small part of that bigger
need.

We expect to follow soon:
 * Extending expiry if assignments are still in use.
 * Returning expired addresses back to the pools so they can be reallocated.

Updates tailscale/corp#39975

Signed-off-by: Fran Bull <fran@tailscale.com>
2026-04-21 14:22:39 -07:00
Fran Bull 19544b4b81 feature/conn25: move byConnKey from addrAssignments to client
addrAssignments is a table of addrs with lookup indices, representing
the assignments of magic+destination+transit IP addresses the client has
made dut to the domain being routed because of an app
.
byConnKey is a map of node public key to prefixes of transit IPs, so it
is associated with, but not that data itself, and can be its own thing.

Updates tailscale/corp#39975

Signed-off-by: Fran Bull <fran@tailscale.com>
2026-04-21 14:22:39 -07:00
Michael Ben-Amiandmzbenami 1dc08f4d41 appc,feature/conn25: prevent clients from forwarding DNS requests and
modifying DNS responses for domains they are also connectors for

For Connectors 2025, determine if a client is configured as a
connector and what domains it is a connector for. When acting as a
client, don't install Split DNS routes to other connectors for those
domains, and don't alter DNS responses for those domains. The responses
are forwarded back to the original client, which in turn does the alteration,
swapping the real IP for a Magic IP.

A client is also a connector for a domain if it has tags that overlap
with tags in the configured policy, and --advertise-connector=true
in the prefs (not in the self-node Hostinfo from the netmap). We use the prefs
as the source of truth because control only gets a copy from the prefs, and
may drift. And the AppConnector field is currently zeroed out in the
self-node Hostinfo from control.

The extension adds a ProfileStateChange hook to process prefs changes,
and the config type is split into prefs and nodeview sub-configs.

Fixes tailscale/corp#39317

Signed-off-by: Michael Ben-Ami <mzb@tailscale.com>
2026-04-16 09:41:54 -04:00
Fran Bull 96c3ad582b feature/conn25: add IPv6 support
Make the DNS handling portions of conn25 work with IPv6 addresses.

Fixes tailscale/corp#37850

Signed-off-by: Fran Bull <fran@tailscale.com>
2026-04-07 11:00:04 -07:00
Michael Ben-Amiandmzbenami 156e6ae5cd feature/conn25: install all the hooks
Install the previously uninstalled hooks for the filter and tstun
intercepts. Move the DNS manager hook installation into Init() with all
the others. Protect all implementations with a short-circuit if the node
is not configured to use Connectors 2025. The short-circuit pattern
replaces the previous pattern used in managing the DNS manager hook, of
setting it to nil in response to CapMap changes.

Fixes tailscale/corp#38716

Signed-off-by: Michael Ben-Ami <mzb@tailscale.com>
2026-03-27 11:52:34 -04:00
George JonesandGitHub e7121b49d5 feature/conn25: connect the ExtraWireguardAllowedIPs hook (#19140)
The hook calls into the client assigned addresses to return a view of
the transit IPs associated with that connector.

Fixes tailscale/corp#38125

Signed-off-by: George Jones <george@tailscale.com>
2026-03-26 16:33:50 -04:00
George JonesandGitHub 86135d3df5 feature/conn25: Store transit ips by connector key (#19071)
The client needs to know the set of transit IPs that are assigned
to each connector, so when we register transit IPs with the connector
we also need to assign them to that connector in the addrAssignments.
We identify the connector by node public key to match the peer information
that is available when the ExtraWireguardAllowedIPs hook will be invoked.

Fixes tailscale/corp#38127

Signed-off-by: George Jones <george@tailscale.com>
2026-03-26 15:58:26 -04:00
Fran Bull 2d5962f524 feature/conn25,ipn/ipnext,ipn/ipnlocal: add ExtraRouterConfigRoutes hook
conn25 needs to add routes to the operating system to direct handling
of the addresses in the magic IP range to the tailscale0 TUN and
tailscaled.

The way we do this for exit nodes and VIP services is that we add routes
to the Routes field of router.Config, and then the config is passed to
the WireGuard engine Reconfig.

conn25 is implemented as an ipnext.Extension and so this commit adds a
hook to ipnext.Hooks to allow any extension to provide routes to the
config. The hook if provided is called in routerConfigLocked, similarly
to exit nodes and VIP services.

Fixes tailscale/corp#38123

Signed-off-by: Fran Bull <fran@tailscale.com>
2026-03-25 19:28:33 -07:00
Fran Bull 85906b61f4 feature/conn25: call AuthReconfigAsync after address assignment
When the client of a connector assigns transit IP addresses for a
connector we need to let wireguard know that packets for the transit IPs
should be sent to the connector node. We do this by:
 * keeping a map of node -> transit IPs we've assigned for it
 * setting a callback hook within wireguard reconfig to ask us for these
   extra allowed IPs.
 * forcing wireguard to do a reconfig after we have assigned new transit
   IPs.

And this commit is the last part: forcing the wireguard reconfig after a
new address assignment.

Fixes tailscale/corp#38124

Signed-off-by: Fran Bull <fran@tailscale.com>
2026-03-24 10:14:50 -07:00
Michael Ben-Amiandmzbenami bdcf976477 feature/conn25: guard extension Init() and PeerAPI handler with opt-in env var
Fixes tailscale/corp#39003

Signed-off-by: Michael Ben-Ami <mzb@tailscale.com>
2026-03-24 12:26:14 -04:00
Fran Bull d3626c51f1 feature/conn25: add packet filter allow functions
That will be able to be plugged into the hooks in
wgengine/filter/filter.go to let connector packets flow.

Fixes tailscale/corp#37144
Fixes tailscale/corp#37145

Signed-off-by: Fran Bull <fran@tailscale.com>
2026-03-23 08:40:58 -07:00
Andrew LytvynovandGitHub 3a5afc3358 feature/conn25: guard against an index out of bounds panic (#19066)
Updates #cleanup

Signed-off-by: Andrew Lytvynov <awly@tailscale.com>
2026-03-20 11:44:54 -07:00
Fran Bull 79f71beb24 feature/conn25: implement IPMapper
Rename variables to match their types after the server -> connector
rename.

Updates tailscale/corp#37144
Updates tailscale/corp#37145

Signed-off-by: Fran Bull <fran@tailscale.com>
2026-03-20 08:31:14 -07:00
Fran Bull 1e09eb0cb6 feature/conn25: implement IPMapper
Give the datapath hooks the lookup functions they need.

Updates tailscale/corp#37144
Updates tailscale/corp#37145

Signed-off-by: Fran Bull <fran@tailscale.com>
2026-03-20 08:31:14 -07:00
Fran Bull 51a117f494 feature/conn25: rewrite A records for connector domains
When we are mapping a dns response, if it is a connector domain, change
the source IP addresses for our magic IP addresses. This will allow the
tailscaled to DNAT the traffic for the domain to the connector.

Updates tailscale/corp#34258
Signed-off-by: Fran Bull <fran@tailscale.com>
2026-03-16 09:09:35 -07:00
George JonesandGitHub 660a4608d2 feature/conn25: Update ConnectorTransitIPRequest handling (#18979)
Changed the mapping to store the transit IPs to be indexed by
peer IP rather than NodeID because the data path only has access
to the peer's IP. This change means that IPv4 transit IPs need to
be indexed by the peer's IPv4 address, and IPv6 transit IPs need to
be indexed by the peer's IPv6 address. It is an error if the peer
does not have an address of the same family as the transit IP.
It is also an error if the transit and destination IP families do
not match.

Added a check to ensure that the TransitIPRequest.App matches a
configured app on the connector.

Added additional TransitIPResponse codes to identify the new errors
and change the exsting use of the Other code to use it's own
specific code.

Added logging for the error cases, since they generally indicate that
a peer has constructed a bad request or that there is a config
mismatch between the peer and the local netmap.

Added a test framework for handleConnectorTransitIPRequest and moved
the existing tests into the framework and added new tests.

Fixes tailscale/corp#37143

Signed-off-by: George Jones <george@tailscale.com>
2026-03-13 13:26:08 -04:00
Fran Bull a4614d7d17 appc,feature/conn25: conn25: send address assignments to connector
After we intercept a DNS response and assign magic and transit addresses
we must communicate the assignment to our connector so that it can
direct traffic when it arrives.

Use the recently added peerapi endpoint to send the addresses.

Updates tailscale/corp#34258
Signed-off-by: Fran Bull <fran@tailscale.com>
2026-03-09 14:10:38 -07:00
Brad FitzpatrickandBrad Fitzpatrick bd2a2d53d3 all: use Go 1.26 things, run most gofix modernizers
I omitted a lot of the min/max modernizers because they didn't
result in more clear code.

Some of it's older "for x := range 123".

Also: errors.AsType, any, fmt.Appendf, etc.

Updates #18682

Change-Id: I83a451577f33877f962766a5b65ce86f7696471c
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
2026-03-06 13:32:03 -08:00
Fran Bull 120f27f383 feature/conn25: stop adding multiple entries for same domain+dst
We should only add one entry to our magic ips for each domain+dst and
look up any existing entry instead of always creating a new one.

Fixes tailscale/corp#34252
Signed-off-by: Fran Bull <fran@tailscale.com>
2026-03-03 13:29:45 -08:00
Fran Bull 3b737edbf1 appc,feature/conn25,net: Add DNS response interception for conn25
The new version of app connector (conn25) needs to read DNS responses
for domains it is interested in and store and swap out IP addresses.

Add a hook to dns manager to enable this.
Give the conn25 updated netmaps so that it knows when to assign
connecting addresses and from what pool.
Assign an address when we see a DNS response for a domain we are
interested in, but don't do anything with the address yet.

Updates tailscale/corp#34252

Signed-off-by: Fran Bull <fran@tailscale.com>
2026-02-20 07:43:37 -08:00
Fran BullandBrad Fitzpatrick 642d1aaa60 cmd/tailscaled,feature/conn25,feature/featuretags: add conn25 to featuretags
Package feature/conn25 is excludeable from a build via the featuretag.
Test it is excluded for minimal builds.

Updates #12614

Signed-off-by: Fran Bull <fran@tailscale.com>
2026-02-04 12:52:08 -08:00
Will NorrisandWill Norris 3ec5be3f51 all: remove AUTHORS file and references to it
This file was never truly necessary and has never actually been used in
the history of Tailscale's open source releases.

A Brief History of AUTHORS files
---

The AUTHORS file was a pattern developed at Google, originally for
Chromium, then adopted by Go and a bunch of other projects. The problem
was that Chromium originally had a copyright line only recognizing
Google as the copyright holder. Because Google (and most open source
projects) do not require copyright assignemnt for contributions, each
contributor maintains their copyright. Some large corporate contributors
then tried to add their own name to the copyright line in the LICENSE
file or in file headers. This quickly becomes unwieldy, and puts a
tremendous burden on anyone building on top of Chromium, since the
license requires that they keep all copyright lines intact.

The compromise was to create an AUTHORS file that would list all of the
copyright holders. The LICENSE file and source file headers would then
include that list by reference, listing the copyright holder as "The
Chromium Authors".

This also become cumbersome to simply keep the file up to date with a
high rate of new contributors. Plus it's not always obvious who the
copyright holder is. Sometimes it is the individual making the
contribution, but many times it may be their employer. There is no way
for the proejct maintainer to know.

Eventually, Google changed their policy to no longer recommend trying to
keep the AUTHORS file up to date proactively, and instead to only add to
it when requested: https://opensource.google/docs/releasing/authors.
They are also clear that:

> Adding contributors to the AUTHORS file is entirely within the
> project's discretion and has no implications for copyright ownership.

It was primarily added to appease a small number of large contributors
that insisted that they be recognized as copyright holders (which was
entirely their right to do). But it's not truly necessary, and not even
the most accurate way of identifying contributors and/or copyright
holders.

In practice, we've never added anyone to our AUTHORS file. It only lists
Tailscale, so it's not really serving any purpose. It also causes
confusion because Tailscalars put the "Tailscale Inc & AUTHORS" header
in other open source repos which don't actually have an AUTHORS file, so
it's ambiguous what that means.

Instead, we just acknowledge that the contributors to Tailscale (whoever
they are) are copyright holders for their individual contributions. We
also have the benefit of using the DCO (developercertificate.org) which
provides some additional certification of their right to make the
contribution.

The source file changes were purely mechanical with:

    git ls-files | xargs sed -i -e 's/\(Tailscale Inc &\) AUTHORS/\1 contributors/g'

Updates #cleanup

Change-Id: Ia101a4a3005adb9118051b3416f5a64a4a45987d
Signed-off-by: Will Norris <will@tailscale.com>
2026-01-23 15:49:45 -08:00
Fran Bull 076d5c7214 appc,feature: add the start of new conn25 app connector
When peers request an IP address mapping to be stored, the connector
stores it in memory.

Fixes tailscale/corp#34251
Signed-off-by: Fran Bull <fran@tailscale.com>
2025-12-09 10:26:01 -08:00