tinc - Nov 2015 - tinc exit when there is no internet?

Hi Guys,

I have been using tinc in a linux environment, which has always been
working fine. Recently I encountered an issue that tinc process exits(or
crash?) when internet is down.
What could be the cause of it? Is there a timeout mechanism inside tinc
code that it will exit after failing to bring up tun/tap interface for a
long period? The internet has been down for several days.

I am trying to reproduce this issue by bringing down internet when tinc is
working fine. In the meantime can anyone give some idea? I appreciate that.

Thank you.

Heng
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On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 11:53:49AM -0500, Heng Wang wrote:
> I have been using tinc in a linux environment, which has always been
> working fine. Recently I encountered an issue that tinc process exits(or
> crash?) when internet is down.
> What could be the cause of it? Is there a timeout mechanism inside tinc
> code that it will exit after failing to bring up tun/tap interface for a
> long period? The internet has been down for several days.
Tinc should never exit automatically, so this is clearly a bug.
> I am trying to reproduce this issue by bringing down internet when tinc is
> working fine. In the meantime can anyone give some idea? I appreciate that.
What version of tinc are you using? If it only happens after a long
time, you might be able to speed things up by settings MaxTimeout = 5 in
tinc.conf.

-- 
Met vriendelijke groet / with kind regards,
     Guus Sliepen <guus at tinc-vpn.org>
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