Prevent recreation of machines

[Tom7320]

Hi everyone,

Last night, my server auto-updated the tsdprox container. After the container restart, tsdproxy (tried) to recreate the already existing machines. The problem with the recreation is either:

• if the auth key is already expired, creation of the machine fails or
• the machine gets a different name by adding a suffix like "-1" for example.

Therefore, I would like tsdproxy to prevent the creation of machines that already exist. Is that possible? Another solution could be the use of never expiring OAuth ephemeral nodes?!

Thx a lot for the great software! 😊

[tmnyhbs]

Came here to say I had this same issue this morning.

I stopped the TSDProxy container and then removed all the created machines from my TS dashboard. Restarted and back to usual.

It made me think of another possibly feature — a TSDProxy script/command to purge all created containers created by TSDProxy from Tailscale. Could be very helpful if the initial issue is hard to avoid ongoing.

[almeidapaulopt]

If you activate ephemeral, they will be deleted automatically.

[Tom7320]

Yes. I know. But as soon as the key expires, this will fail. I am looking for a more “permanent” solution for a couple of my services.

[bronson]

I have ephemeral activated and still ended up with -1 names. (and ephemeral is the default, right? On my tailscale dashboard, the tsdproxy machines all have the blue label)