tinc - Jan 2016 - Having more info, like the ip address of the vpn nodes in the xdot graph file of tinc

Hello,

I am using tinc's feature to dump a graph of the vpn extensively to view
the machines which are currently part of the vpn.

In my tinc.conf I have this:
GraphDumpFile = /tmp/tinc-graph

Then I have a desktop starter that executes
/usr/bin/xdot /tmp/tinc-graph
to open the graph.

I would love to have the ip addresses of the vpn ips of the tinc nodes
in that graph, e.g. if one tinc node is called office00, then I would
like the graph to not only show "office00", but "office00
172.18.0.10".
I do not want the "real" ip address of the machines, but the ip
address
that I assigned inside the vpn.

In this way I would not have to memorise or lookup the ips whenever some
utterly gifted specialist needs some assistance via vnc or similar or I
need to connect to some ip of a machine with ssh.

Is there a way I could achieve this ? The tinc graph file starts like this:
digraph {
	office00 [label = "office00"];
	office01 [label = "office01"];
...

The label would have to say [label = "office00 172.18.0.10"]. Manual
editing is out of the question, since the graph gets rewritten every
time the vpn changes. A script started by a cron job is possible, but
every time I change some ip configuration of the vpn or add machines
then need to edit and update that cron script as well and sometimes the
graph is written and I want to lookup stuff before the cron job has run
- it would be easier if tinc could do that out of the box.

Thanks
BR
Max.

On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 02:12:20PM +0100, Maximilian H. wrote:
> I am using tinc's feature to dump a graph of the vpn extensively to
view
> the machines which are currently part of the vpn.
> 
> I would love to have the ip addresses of the vpn ips of the tinc nodes
> in that graph, e.g. if one tinc node is called office00, then I would
> like the graph to not only show "office00", but "office00
172.18.0.10".
> I do not want the "real" ip address of the machines, but the ip
address
> that I assigned inside the vpn.
This is not supported in tinc 1.0.x. In tinc 1.1, you can look up
information in several ways using the "tinc info" command, for example
"tinc info 172.18.0.10" would tell you that that address is owned by
office00, and "tinc info office00" will tell you all about that node.

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

is there a .deb somewhere for tinc 1.1 and ubuntu 15.10 available /
instruction on howto build .deb files for ubuntu ? Then I could put
something together with python or the shell, inotify of the tinc graph
file and tinc info.

Thanks+
BR
Max.




> On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 02:12:20PM +0100, Maximilian H. wrote:
> 
>> I am using tinc's feature to dump a graph of the vpn extensively to
view
>> the machines which are currently part of the vpn.
>>
>> I would love to have the ip addresses of the vpn ips of the tinc nodes
>> in that graph, e.g. if one tinc node is called office00, then I would
>> like the graph to not only show "office00", but
"office00 172.18.0.10".
>> I do not want the "real" ip address of the machines, but the
ip address
>> that I assigned inside the vpn.
> 
> This is not supported in tinc 1.0.x. In tinc 1.1, you can look up
> information in several ways using the "tinc info" command, for
example
> "tinc info 172.18.0.10" would tell you that that address is owned
by
> office00, and "tinc info office00" will tell you all about that
node.
> 
> 
> 
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