tincctl localhost timeout

[Guus Sliepen]

On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 04:24:07AM +0900, shikkc wrote:

> First off, thanks to all who have made tinc possible and continue to
> work developing it. I hope perhaps in time I can become a useful
> part of this community. :) I'm having an interesting issue with
> tincctl and was hoping someone could shed some light on it.
> Everything seems to work correctly when I build for OSX; however on
> linux and windows builds, I always receive connection errors. Net
> and hostname changed, and copyright info left out from versions to
> save space.

Hmm, that is certainly strange; I did test it on Linux and Windows, and there
tincctl connected to a running tincd without any problems.

> root@<hostname> # netstat -l -n -p | grep 655
> tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:655             0.0.0.0:* LISTEN     58362/tincd
> 
> root@<hostname># tincctl --net=<netname> stop
> Cannot connect to 127.0.0.1 port 655: Connection refused
[...]
> Variant on a second host, running a newer build, and IPv6:
> 
> root@[hostname]:~# netstat -n -l | grep 655
> tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:655             0.0.0.0:* LISTEN     5164/tincd
> tcp        0      0 :::655                  :::*      LISTEN     5164/tincd
> 
> root@[hostname]:~# tincctl --net=[netname]
> tinc.[netname]> dump nodes
> Cannot connect to ::1 port 655: Connection timed out

It is even stranger to get connection timeouts to localhost. Could it be that
you have firewall rules blocking connections to port 655?

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