Tailscale needs to fully reauthenticate if pfSense has been shut down for multiple days - Why ?
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I think I have some misunderstanding about authentication / how pfSense logs into a Tailnet.
I have 2 pfSense instances logged into a tailnet.
Both were initially authed with an auth-key that has since expired.
But the nodes are configured to never expire and not be ephermal:
ephermal: false
last seen: 2023-09-07 03:51:28
expires: 0001-01-01 00:00:00 (i.e. never)
status: offlineIf I reboot pfSense all is well. They come up and stay up.
If I shut down pfSense and boot back up same day, no worries.
If I shut down pfSense and place it in my sockdrawer of pfSense boxes (don't ask!) and power it up a few days / weeks later, it is logged out and won't log back in without a fresh auth-key even though the control server (headscale) has that client marked as never expiring.