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. (e.g. some of my emergency IPMI HTTPS proxies I use like every 6 months, and they always have expired certs) 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 monitor that health warnable in the "tailscale cert" CLI command. Fixes #19911 Fixes #19912 Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com> Change-Id: I144e46c40e957b2e879587decace32a523a6eade
Tailscale
Private WireGuard® networks made easy
Overview
This repository contains the majority of Tailscale's open source code.
Notably, it includes the tailscaled daemon and
the tailscale CLI tool. The tailscaled daemon runs on Linux, Windows,
macOS, and to varying degrees
on FreeBSD and OpenBSD. The Tailscale iOS and Android apps use this repo's
code, but this repo doesn't contain the mobile GUI code.
Other Tailscale repos of note:
- the Android app is at https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale-android
- the Synology package is at https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale-synology
- the QNAP package is at https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale-qpkg
- the Chocolatey packaging is at https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale-chocolatey
For background on which parts of Tailscale are open source and why, see https://tailscale.com/opensource/.
Using
We serve packages for a variety of distros and platforms at https://pkgs.tailscale.com.
Other clients
The macOS, iOS, and Windows clients use the code in this repository but additionally include small GUI wrappers. The GUI wrappers on non-open source platforms are themselves not open source.
Building
We always require the latest Go release, currently Go 1.26. (While we build releases with our Go fork, its use is not required.)
go install tailscale.com/cmd/tailscale{,d}
If you're packaging Tailscale for distribution, use build_dist.sh
instead, to burn commit IDs and version info into the binaries:
./build_dist.sh tailscale.com/cmd/tailscale
./build_dist.sh tailscale.com/cmd/tailscaled
If your distro has conventions that preclude the use of
build_dist.sh, please do the equivalent of what it does in your
distro's way, so that bug reports contain useful version information.
Bugs
Please file any issues about this code or the hosted service on the issue tracker.
Contributing
PRs welcome! But please file bugs. Commit messages should reference bugs.
We require Developer Certificate of
Origin
Signed-off-by lines in commits.
See commit-messages.md (or skim git log) for our commit message style.
About Us
Tailscale is primarily developed by the people at https://github.com/orgs/tailscale/people. For other contributors, see:
- https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale/graphs/contributors
- https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale-android/graphs/contributors
Legal
WireGuard is a registered trademark of Jason A. Donenfeld.