Purging info about a deleted node

[Guus Sliepen]

On Wed, Aug 06, 2014 at 09:24:32PM +0200, Gian Piero Carrubba wrote:

> this is just a minor nuisance but nevertheless I would not dislike a
> solution for it.
> 
> I run a mixed 1.0/1.1 VPN. Some time ago I've removed a node from the VPN
> (wiped the disk, so deleting the private keys). Over the time I've removed
> the corresponding public keys (among with all the infos related to the node)
> from the other nodes. All nodes have been restarted more than once since the
> deletion of the files related to the removed node.
> 
> Problem is that as soon as a node rejoins the VPN, it gets the info about
> the removed node from the VPN so that I see the "ghost" node listed every
> time I do a `dump nodes` or `dump graph`.

A solution is already available. You can remove these ghosts by running
this command on one of the nodes that is currently online:

tinc -n <netname> purge

You can achieve the same with tinc 1.0.x by running:

tincd -n <netname> -kWINCH

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