Tinc hangs if started with network disconnected

[Sandro Stiller]

Am 17.02.2017 um 10:59 schrieb Guus Sliepen:
> On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 09:55:26AM +0100, Sandro Stiller wrote:
> 
>> On my system, tinc is started on bootup.
>> If the Network cable is not connected, tincd hangs forever after these messages:
> [...]
>> 2017-02-13 11:34:02 tinc.XXX[403]: Error looking up XXX.net port 2300: Temporary failure in name resolution
> [...]
>> Even if I reconnect the interface, tinc does not continue.
>> If I restart the service manually, everything works fine, even with disconnected network interface (it tries again and again until internet connection works).
>> I think, there is some kind of boot-time race condition.
>> It's the same problem with version 1.0.28 and 1.0.31.
> 
> Does it not log anything anymore after those messages? Or does it
> continue giving the "Error looking up..." message periodically?

It stops working completely.

> 
> In the first case, try sending tinc the ALRM and/or HUP signal (tincd -n
> <netname> -kALRM). This should cause tinc to retry outgoing connections
> immediately.

After that, it continues trying.

I think, I found the cause of the problem:
Is tinc using a monotonic / steady clock for timeouts or is it using the system time?

If the system time is set during boot using the RTC (after the start of tincd), tincd stops retrying.
I tested it by starting tincd with disconnected network, waited for 1 or 2 retries and then set the system clock to 1 hour earlier.
Tincd printed one more message and then stopped the connection attempts.

> Did you compile tinc yourself? If so, can you send us a copy of
> the config.h file?

I guess, it's not needed anymore, but here it is:
http://pastebin.com/JWbMGXvi

> In any case, which Linux distribution are you using?

It's an OpenEmbedded-based distribution  for embedded devices