LocalDiscovery detecting nodes through tunnel

Lance Fredrickson lancethepants at gmail.com
Thu Apr 4 17:09:29 CEST 2013


Looking at the docs, it appears LocalDiscovery should be off by default. 
You could also try explicitly placing 'LocalDiscovery = no' in your configs.

Lance

On 4/4/2013 5:40 AM, Dominik George wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have tried the LocalDiscovery feature of tinc.
>
> The problem is that it also sends broadcast probes out the CPN interface
> *and* detects nodes on the VPN. A connection is then established through
> the tunnel, which effectively breaks connectivity between the two nodes.
>
> I do not think that discovering hosts on the VPN makes sense in any way.
> How can it be disabled?
>
> I could easily netfilter those packets out on the tunnel interface, but
> this is only feasible on some of my nodes due to platform restrictions
> (ever tried to use iptables in a useful way on Android without going
> nuts?).
>
> Cheers,
> Nik
>
>
>
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