Tailscale not online

[mcury]

@IanMcLeish Facing the same problem.
It happens after a few months, even if they key is set to "Do not expire".

Reported this not long ago: 16004

[IanMcLeish]

@mcury

Can you get your's back online though?

I have uninstalled everything and reinstalled. Deleted the instance in the Tailscale admin page and made a new key. But I am still offline and no further forward.

[IanMcLeish]

@mcury

Did you have any joy with the --unattended option?

And where would I add that if you did?

Thanks

[mcury]

@IanMcLeish said in Tailscale not online:

Can you get your's back online though?

I have uninstalled everything and reinstalled. Deleted the instance in the Tailscale admin page and made a new key. But I am still offline and no further forward.

Yeap, you need to delete the device in the tailnet, generate a new key, paste it to pfsense and save.
This alone will make it go online again.

Then, check the tailnet IP your device got and changed the virtual IP for the NAT to match it.
Accept the advertised routes if any, and that is it.

Did you have any joy with the --unattended option?

I didn't do anything yet besides of reporting the problem.

[IanMcLeish]

@mcury said in Tailscale not online:

@IanMcLeish said in Tailscale not online:

Can you get your's back online though?

I have uninstalled everything and reinstalled. Deleted the instance in the Tailscale admin page and made a new key. But I am still offline and no further forward.

Yeap, you need to delete the device in the tailnet, generate a new key, paste it to pfsense and save.
This alone will make it go online again.

Then, check the tailnet IP your device got and changed the virtual IP for the NAT to match it.
Accept the advertised routes if any, and that is it.

Did you have any joy with the --unattended option?

I didn't do anything yet besides of reporting the problem.

Aargh.

This is not working for me, it isn't going online again!

Ill try removing the packages again and starting over - i would rather not remove the entire pfsense and start again!! I was following Tom Lawrence's Youtube video. it worked for me before.

[mcury]

@IanMcLeish said in Tailscale not online:

Ill try removing the packages again and starting over - i would rather not remove the entire pfsense and start again!!

Did you generate a new key ?
Go to the tailnet, click add device, choose linux server, set the expiry to 90 days and click generate install script.
Then, you will see a code being generated at the bottom of the page, copy from the tskey onwards and paste in pfsense tailscale authentication tab.
After that, just follow the instructions in my last post.

[IanMcLeish]

@mcury

I was generating a key in the tailscail admin domain. I did try your method as well, but still no luck.
Thanks for your help.

I wonder what went wrong on Feb 3 to cause this?

I tried restoring an older backup as well from before Feb 3 and that too made not a jot of a difference.

I think I will give up.

Personally, I know a router can be complicated, as networks and firewall are complicated, but tailscale is so simple on most every product, except this one.

[mcury]

@IanMcLeish said in Tailscale not online:

I think I will give up.

Weird, those exactly steps worked for me yesterday..

[IanMcLeish]

@mcury
I got it!

I had to go to the command prompt and run the command tailscale up which then gave me a link to the tailscale web admin page to authenticate. I kinda thought that the whole point of the key was to avoid that, but it is back up and running anyway.

Thanks for your help - was nice at least to know i wasn't doing anything stupid, but maybe missing that last part was me doing something stupid!?

[mcury]

@IanMcLeish said in Tailscale not online:

I got it!

great