Tinc connection does not come up when started as Windows service

[Guus Sliepen]

On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 12:10:40PM +0000, Chris Haaser wrote:

> I have a tinc mesh consisting of 6 Windows servers. All are configured identically and all but one work without any problems.
> On that one server however the tinc service starts, but the connection does not come up (no packets get routed, ping times out).
> If I stop and start the service manually, the connection is up in like half a second. If I start tinc on the command line, it works every time.
> 
> Is there anything I can do to debug tinc when running as a service? I tried setting it to startup automatically / delayed, but that didn't work either.

The easiest way is to tell tinc to log to a file. Start it like this:

tincd -n <netname> --logfile=C:\Temp\tinc.log -d5

Then check what is in the logfile.

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