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Will 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

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// Copyright (c) Tailscale Inc & contributors
// SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
package cli
import (
"context"
"flag"
"fmt"
"maps"
"slices"
"strings"
"github.com/peterbourgon/ff/v3/ffcli"
"tailscale.com/ipn"
"tailscale.com/types/netmap"
)
var dnsStatusCmd = &ffcli.Command{
Name: "status",
ShortUsage: "tailscale dns status [--all]",
Exec: runDNSStatus,
ShortHelp: "Print the current DNS status and configuration",
LongHelp: strings.TrimSpace(`
The 'tailscale dns status' subcommand prints the current DNS status and
configuration, including:
- Whether the built-in DNS forwarder is enabled.
- The MagicDNS configuration provided by the coordination server.
- Details on which resolver(s) Tailscale believes the system is using by
default.
The --all flag can be used to output advanced debugging information, including
fallback resolvers, nameservers, certificate domains, extra records, and the
exit node filtered set.
=== Contents of the MagicDNS configuration ===
The MagicDNS configuration is provided by the coordination server to the client
and includes the following components:
- MagicDNS enablement status: Indicates whether MagicDNS is enabled across the
entire tailnet.
- MagicDNS Suffix: The DNS suffix used for devices within your tailnet.
- DNS Name: The DNS name that other devices in the tailnet can use to reach this
device.
- Resolvers: The preferred DNS resolver(s) to be used for resolving queries, in
order of preference. If no resolvers are listed here, the system defaults are
used.
- Split DNS Routes: Custom DNS resolvers may be used to resolve hostnames in
specific domains, this is also known as a 'Split DNS' configuration. The
mapping of domains to their respective resolvers is provided here.
- Certificate Domains: The DNS names for which the coordination server will
assist in provisioning TLS certificates.
- Extra Records: Additional DNS records that the coordination server might
provide to the internal DNS resolver.
- Exit Node Filtered Set: DNS suffixes that the node, when acting as an exit
node DNS proxy, will not answer.
For more information about the DNS functionality built into Tailscale, refer to
https://tailscale.com/kb/1054/dns.
`),
FlagSet: (func() *flag.FlagSet {
fs := newFlagSet("status")
fs.BoolVar(&dnsStatusArgs.all, "all", false, "outputs advanced debugging information")
return fs
})(),
}
// dnsStatusArgs are the arguments for the "dns status" subcommand.
var dnsStatusArgs struct {
all bool
}
func runDNSStatus(ctx context.Context, args []string) error {
all := dnsStatusArgs.all
s, err := localClient.Status(ctx)
if err != nil {
return err
}
prefs, err := localClient.GetPrefs(ctx)
if err != nil {
return err
}
enabledStr := "disabled.\n\n(Run 'tailscale set --accept-dns=true' to start sending DNS queries to the Tailscale DNS resolver)"
if prefs.CorpDNS {
enabledStr = "enabled.\n\nTailscale is configured to handle DNS queries on this device.\nRun 'tailscale set --accept-dns=false' to revert to your system default DNS resolver."
}
fmt.Print("\n")
fmt.Println("=== 'Use Tailscale DNS' status ===")
fmt.Print("\n")
fmt.Printf("Tailscale DNS: %s\n", enabledStr)
fmt.Print("\n")
fmt.Println("=== MagicDNS configuration ===")
fmt.Print("\n")
fmt.Println("This is the DNS configuration provided by the coordination server to this device.")
fmt.Print("\n")
if s.CurrentTailnet == nil {
fmt.Println("No tailnet information available; make sure you're logged in to a tailnet.")
return nil
} else if s.CurrentTailnet.MagicDNSEnabled {
fmt.Printf("MagicDNS: enabled tailnet-wide (suffix = %s)", s.CurrentTailnet.MagicDNSSuffix)
fmt.Print("\n\n")
fmt.Printf("Other devices in your tailnet can reach this device at %s\n", s.Self.DNSName)
} else {
fmt.Printf("MagicDNS: disabled tailnet-wide.\n")
}
fmt.Print("\n")
netMap, err := fetchNetMap()
if err != nil {
fmt.Printf("Failed to fetch network map: %v\n", err)
return err
}
dnsConfig := netMap.DNS
fmt.Println("Resolvers (in preference order):")
if len(dnsConfig.Resolvers) == 0 {
fmt.Println(" (no resolvers configured, system default will be used: see 'System DNS configuration' below)")
}
for _, r := range dnsConfig.Resolvers {
fmt.Printf(" - %v", r.Addr)
if r.BootstrapResolution != nil {
fmt.Printf(" (bootstrap: %v)", r.BootstrapResolution)
}
fmt.Print("\n")
}
fmt.Print("\n")
fmt.Println("Split DNS Routes:")
if len(dnsConfig.Routes) == 0 {
fmt.Println(" (no routes configured: split DNS disabled)")
}
for _, k := range slices.Sorted(maps.Keys(dnsConfig.Routes)) {
v := dnsConfig.Routes[k]
for _, r := range v {
fmt.Printf(" - %-30s -> %v", k, r.Addr)
if r.BootstrapResolution != nil {
fmt.Printf(" (bootstrap: %v)", r.BootstrapResolution)
}
fmt.Print("\n")
}
}
fmt.Print("\n")
if all {
fmt.Println("Fallback Resolvers:")
if len(dnsConfig.FallbackResolvers) == 0 {
fmt.Println(" (no fallback resolvers configured)")
}
for i, r := range dnsConfig.FallbackResolvers {
fmt.Printf(" %d: %v\n", i, r)
}
fmt.Print("\n")
}
fmt.Println("Search Domains:")
if len(dnsConfig.Domains) == 0 {
fmt.Println(" (no search domains configured)")
}
domains := dnsConfig.Domains
slices.Sort(domains)
for _, r := range domains {
fmt.Printf(" - %v\n", r)
}
fmt.Print("\n")
if all {
fmt.Println("Nameservers IP Addresses:")
if len(dnsConfig.Nameservers) == 0 {
fmt.Println(" (none were provided)")
}
for _, r := range dnsConfig.Nameservers {
fmt.Printf(" - %v\n", r)
}
fmt.Print("\n")
fmt.Println("Certificate Domains:")
if len(dnsConfig.CertDomains) == 0 {
fmt.Println(" (no certificate domains are configured)")
}
for _, r := range dnsConfig.CertDomains {
fmt.Printf(" - %v\n", r)
}
fmt.Print("\n")
fmt.Println("Additional DNS Records:")
if len(dnsConfig.ExtraRecords) == 0 {
fmt.Println(" (no extra records are configured)")
}
for _, er := range dnsConfig.ExtraRecords {
if er.Type == "" {
fmt.Printf(" - %-50s -> %v\n", er.Name, er.Value)
} else {
fmt.Printf(" - [%s] %-50s -> %v\n", er.Type, er.Name, er.Value)
}
}
fmt.Print("\n")
fmt.Println("Filtered suffixes when forwarding DNS queries as an exit node:")
if len(dnsConfig.ExitNodeFilteredSet) == 0 {
fmt.Println(" (no suffixes are filtered)")
}
for _, s := range dnsConfig.ExitNodeFilteredSet {
fmt.Printf(" - %s\n", s)
}
fmt.Print("\n")
}
fmt.Println("=== System DNS configuration ===")
fmt.Print("\n")
fmt.Println("This is the DNS configuration that Tailscale believes your operating system is using.\nTailscale may use this configuration if 'Override Local DNS' is disabled in the admin console,\nor if no resolvers are provided by the coordination server.")
fmt.Print("\n")
osCfg, err := localClient.GetDNSOSConfig(ctx)
if err != nil {
if strings.Contains(err.Error(), "not supported") {
// avoids showing the HTTP error code which would be odd here
fmt.Println(" (reading the system DNS configuration is not supported on this platform)")
} else {
fmt.Printf(" (failed to read system DNS configuration: %v)\n", err)
}
} else if osCfg == nil {
fmt.Println(" (no OS DNS configuration available)")
} else {
fmt.Println("Nameservers:")
if len(osCfg.Nameservers) == 0 {
fmt.Println(" (no nameservers found, DNS queries might fail\nunless the coordination server is providing a nameserver)")
}
for _, ns := range osCfg.Nameservers {
fmt.Printf(" - %v\n", ns)
}
fmt.Print("\n")
fmt.Println("Search domains:")
if len(osCfg.SearchDomains) == 0 {
fmt.Println(" (no search domains found)")
}
for _, sd := range osCfg.SearchDomains {
fmt.Printf(" - %v\n", sd)
}
if all {
fmt.Print("\n")
fmt.Println("Match domains:")
if len(osCfg.MatchDomains) == 0 {
fmt.Println(" (no match domains found)")
}
for _, md := range osCfg.MatchDomains {
fmt.Printf(" - %v\n", md)
}
}
}
fmt.Print("\n")
fmt.Println("[this is a preliminary version of this command; the output format may change in the future]")
return nil
}
func fetchNetMap() (netMap *netmap.NetworkMap, err error) {
w, err := localClient.WatchIPNBus(context.Background(), ipn.NotifyInitialNetMap)
if err != nil {
return nil, err
}
defer w.Close()
notify, err := w.Next()
if err != nil {
return nil, err
}
if notify.NetMap == nil {
return nil, fmt.Errorf("no network map yet available, please try again later")
}
return notify.NetMap, nil
}