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Brad FitzpatrickandBrad Fitzpatrick a6ab7efa4f ipn/ipnlocal, cmd/tailscale/cli: auto-renew TLS certs and warn while pending
The Tailscale daemon only refreshed TLS certs as a side effect of inbound
TLS handshakes or "tailscale cert" CLI calls. A node that doesn't see
inbound traffic during the renewal window silently rolls past expiry.

Add a once-per-hour background loop on LocalBackend that enumerates Serve
and Funnel HTTPS hostnames (filtered against the netmap's CertDomains so
we don't poke ACME for other nodes' service hostnames) and calls the
existing GetCertPEM path. The renewal decision (ARI window, then 2/3
expiry fallback) is unchanged; the loop just guarantees it runs.

For visibility during initial issuance or restart with a long-expired
cached cert, add a "tls-cert-pending" health Warnable that's set while
ACME is in flight and no usable cached cert exists. Async renewal of a
still-valid cert intentionally doesn't fire it. And then make the CLI "cert"
subcommand print out a warning if it's blocking due to a cert fetch
in flight, using that health info.

Fixes #19911
Fixes #19912

Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
Change-Id: I144e46c40e957b2e879587decace32a523a6eade
2026-06-01 16:31:54 -07:00
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
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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
Jonathan NobelsandGitHub 19b0c8a024 net/dns, health: raise health warning for failing forwarded DNS queries (#12888)
updates tailscale/corp#21823

Misconfigured, broken, or blocked DNS will often present as
"internet is broken'" to the end user.  This  plumbs the health tracker
into the dns manager and forwarder and adds a health warning
with a 5 second delay that is raised on failures in the forwarder and
lowered on successes.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nobels <jonathan@tailscale.com>
2024-07-29 13:48:46 -04:00
Andrea GottardoandGitHub d6a8fb20e7 health: include DERP region name in bad derp notifications (#12530)
Fixes tailscale/corp#20971

We added some Warnables for DERP failure situations, but their Text currently spits out the DERP region ID ("10") in the UI, which is super ugly. It would be better to provide the RegionName of the DERP region that is failing. We can do so by storing a reference to the last-known DERP map in the health package whenever we fetch one, and using it when generating the notification text.

This way, the following message...

> Tailscale could not connect to the relay server '10'. The server might be temporarily unavailable, or your Internet connection might be down.

becomes:

> Tailscale could not connect to the 'Seattle' relay server. The server might be temporarily unavailable, or your Internet connection might be down.

which is a lot more user-friendly.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Gottardo <andrea@gottardo.me>
2024-06-18 16:03:17 -07:00
Andrea GottardoandGitHub a8ee83e2c5 health: begin work to use structured health warnings instead of strings, pipe changes into ipn.Notify (#12406)
Updates tailscale/tailscale#4136

This PR is the first round of work to move from encoding health warnings as strings and use structured data instead. The current health package revolves around the idea of Subsystems. Each subsystem can have (or not have) a Go error associated with it. The overall health of the backend is given by the concatenation of all these errors.

This PR polishes the concept of Warnable introduced by @bradfitz a few weeks ago. Each Warnable is a component of the backend (for instance, things like 'dns' or 'magicsock' are Warnables). Each Warnable has a unique identifying code. A Warnable is an entity we can warn the user about, by setting (or unsetting) a WarningState for it. Warnables have:

- an identifying Code, so that the GUI can track them as their WarningStates come and go
- a Title, which the GUIs can use to tell the user what component of the backend is broken
- a Text, which is a function that is called with a set of Args to generate a more detailed error message to explain the unhappy state

Additionally, this PR also begins to send Warnables and their WarningStates through LocalAPI to the clients, using ipn.Notify messages. An ipn.Notify is only issued when a warning is added or removed from the Tracker.

In a next PR, we'll get rid of subsystems entirely, and we'll start using structured warnings for all errors affecting the backend functionality.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Gottardo <andrea@gottardo.me>
2024-06-14 11:53:56 -07:00