12 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Mike O'Driscoll
4e88d231d5
control,health,ipn: move IP forwarding check to health tracker (#19007)
Currently IP forwarding health check is done on sending MapRequests.

Move ip forwarding to the health service to gain the benefits
of the health tracker and perodic monitoring out of band from
the MapRequest path. ipnlocal now provides a closure to
the health service to provide the check if forwarding is broken.

Removed `skipIPForwardingCheck` from controlclient/direct.go,
it wasn't being used as the comments describe it, that check
has moved to ipnlocal for the closure to the health tracker.

Updates #18976

Signed-off-by: Mike O'Driscoll <mikeo@tailscale.com>
2026-03-18 16:24:12 -04:00
Will Norris
3ec5be3f51 all: remove AUTHORS file and references to it
This file was never truly necessary and has never actually been used in
the history of Tailscale's open source releases.

A Brief History of AUTHORS files
---

The AUTHORS file was a pattern developed at Google, originally for
Chromium, then adopted by Go and a bunch of other projects. The problem
was that Chromium originally had a copyright line only recognizing
Google as the copyright holder. Because Google (and most open source
projects) do not require copyright assignemnt for contributions, each
contributor maintains their copyright. Some large corporate contributors
then tried to add their own name to the copyright line in the LICENSE
file or in file headers. This quickly becomes unwieldy, and puts a
tremendous burden on anyone building on top of Chromium, since the
license requires that they keep all copyright lines intact.

The compromise was to create an AUTHORS file that would list all of the
copyright holders. The LICENSE file and source file headers would then
include that list by reference, listing the copyright holder as "The
Chromium Authors".

This also become cumbersome to simply keep the file up to date with a
high rate of new contributors. Plus it's not always obvious who the
copyright holder is. Sometimes it is the individual making the
contribution, but many times it may be their employer. There is no way
for the proejct maintainer to know.

Eventually, Google changed their policy to no longer recommend trying to
keep the AUTHORS file up to date proactively, and instead to only add to
it when requested: https://opensource.google/docs/releasing/authors.
They are also clear that:

> Adding contributors to the AUTHORS file is entirely within the
> project's discretion and has no implications for copyright ownership.

It was primarily added to appease a small number of large contributors
that insisted that they be recognized as copyright holders (which was
entirely their right to do). But it's not truly necessary, and not even
the most accurate way of identifying contributors and/or copyright
holders.

In practice, we've never added anyone to our AUTHORS file. It only lists
Tailscale, so it's not really serving any purpose. It also causes
confusion because Tailscalars put the "Tailscale Inc & AUTHORS" header
in other open source repos which don't actually have an AUTHORS file, so
it's ambiguous what that means.

Instead, we just acknowledge that the contributors to Tailscale (whoever
they are) are copyright holders for their individual contributions. We
also have the benefit of using the DCO (developercertificate.org) which
provides some additional certification of their right to make the
contribution.

The source file changes were purely mechanical with:

    git ls-files | xargs sed -i -e 's/\(Tailscale Inc &\) AUTHORS/\1 contributors/g'

Updates #cleanup

Change-Id: Ia101a4a3005adb9118051b3416f5a64a4a45987d
Signed-off-by: Will Norris <will@tailscale.com>
2026-01-23 15:49:45 -08:00
Claus Lensbøl
7418583e47
health: compare warnable codes to avoid errors on release branch (#17637)
This compares the warnings we actually care about and skips the unstable
warnings and the changes with no warnings.

Fixes #17635

Signed-off-by: Claus Lensbøl <claus@tailscale.com>
2025-10-24 12:08:35 -04:00
Brad Fitzpatrick
447cbdd1d0 health: make it omittable
Saves 86 KB.

And stop depending on expvar and usermetrics when disabled,
in prep to removing all the expvar/metrics/tsweb stuff.

Updates #12614

Change-Id: I35d2479ddd1d39b615bab32b1fa940ae8cbf9b11
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
2025-10-03 17:23:54 -07:00
James 'zofrex' Sanderson
aa8bc23c49
control/controlclient,health,tailcfg: refactor control health messages (#15839)
* control/controlclient,health,tailcfg: refactor control health messages

Updates tailscale/corp#27759

Signed-off-by: James Sanderson <jsanderson@tailscale.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Scott <408401+icio@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Paul Scott <408401+icio@users.noreply.github.com>
2025-05-22 13:40:32 +01:00
Brad Fitzpatrick
c2f0c705e7 health: clean up updateBuiltinWarnablesLocked a bit, fix DERP warnings
Updates #13265

Change-Id: Iabe4a062204a7859d869f6acfb9274437b4ea1ea
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
2024-09-25 12:52:02 -07:00
Andrea Gottardo
b7c3cfe049
health: support delayed Warnable visibility (#12783)
Updates tailscale/tailscale#4136

To reduce the likelihood of presenting spurious warnings, add the ability to delay the visibility of certain Warnables, based on a TimeToVisible time.Duration field on each Warnable. The default is zero, meaning that a Warnable is immediately visible to the user when it enters an unhealthy state.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Gottardo <andrea@gottardo.me>
2024-07-11 18:51:47 +00:00
Andrea Gottardo
309afa53cf
health: send ImpactsConnectivity value over LocalAPI (#12700)
Updates tailscale/tailscale#4136

We should make sure to send the value of ImpactsConnectivity over to the clients using LocalAPI as they need it to display alerts in the GUI properly.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Gottardo <andrea@gottardo.me>
2024-07-03 20:19:06 +00:00
Andrea Gottardo
732af2f6e0
health: reduce severity of some warnings, improve update messages (#12689)
Updates tailscale/tailscale#4136

High severity health warning = a system notification will appear, which can be quite disruptive to the user and cause unnecessary concern in the event of a temporary network issue.

Per design decision (@sonovawolf), the severity of all warnings but "network is down" should be tuned down to medium/low. ImpactsConnectivity should be set, to change the icon to an exclamation mark in some cases, but without a notification bubble.

I also tweaked the messaging for update-available, to reflect how each platform gets updates in different ways.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Gottardo <andrea@gottardo.me>
2024-07-02 23:11:28 -07:00
Andrea Gottardo
6e55d8f6a1
health: add warming-up warnable (#12553) 2024-06-25 22:02:38 -07:00
Andrea Gottardo
d6a8fb20e7
health: include DERP region name in bad derp notifications (#12530)
Fixes tailscale/corp#20971

We added some Warnables for DERP failure situations, but their Text currently spits out the DERP region ID ("10") in the UI, which is super ugly. It would be better to provide the RegionName of the DERP region that is failing. We can do so by storing a reference to the last-known DERP map in the health package whenever we fetch one, and using it when generating the notification text.

This way, the following message...

> Tailscale could not connect to the relay server '10'. The server might be temporarily unavailable, or your Internet connection might be down.

becomes:

> Tailscale could not connect to the 'Seattle' relay server. The server might be temporarily unavailable, or your Internet connection might be down.

which is a lot more user-friendly.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Gottardo <andrea@gottardo.me>
2024-06-18 16:03:17 -07:00
Andrea Gottardo
a8ee83e2c5
health: begin work to use structured health warnings instead of strings, pipe changes into ipn.Notify (#12406)
Updates tailscale/tailscale#4136

This PR is the first round of work to move from encoding health warnings as strings and use structured data instead. The current health package revolves around the idea of Subsystems. Each subsystem can have (or not have) a Go error associated with it. The overall health of the backend is given by the concatenation of all these errors.

This PR polishes the concept of Warnable introduced by @bradfitz a few weeks ago. Each Warnable is a component of the backend (for instance, things like 'dns' or 'magicsock' are Warnables). Each Warnable has a unique identifying code. A Warnable is an entity we can warn the user about, by setting (or unsetting) a WarningState for it. Warnables have:

- an identifying Code, so that the GUI can track them as their WarningStates come and go
- a Title, which the GUIs can use to tell the user what component of the backend is broken
- a Text, which is a function that is called with a set of Args to generate a more detailed error message to explain the unhappy state

Additionally, this PR also begins to send Warnables and their WarningStates through LocalAPI to the clients, using ipn.Notify messages. An ipn.Notify is only issued when a warning is added or removed from the Tracker.

In a next PR, we'll get rid of subsystems entirely, and we'll start using structured warnings for all errors affecting the backend functionality.

Signed-off-by: Andrea Gottardo <andrea@gottardo.me>
2024-06-14 11:53:56 -07:00