tailscale/tailscale

cmd/tailscale: timeout hitting LetsEncrypt to get cert isn't surfaced well in errors

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#14,677 opened on Jan 17, 2025

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Description

What is the issue?

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i can reach DERP server, but can't get my cert.

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Steps to reproduce

I don't know what's wrong with my device,sorry i searched but no any information about this

And i test subnet of this router's linux device to get cert by itself.it is worked.

Are there any recent changes that introduced the issue?

No response

OS

linux openwrt

OS version

openwrt 24

Tailscale version

1.66.4-1 (OpenWrt)

Other software

It is running a adguardhome on this router,but magicDNS is working. I think there are no error about this.

Bug report

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Research direction
Investigate the error handling for LetsEncrypt certificate retrieval in the Tailscale command. Focus on how timeouts are reported and improve the user facing error message to clearly indicate the timeout reason.
Tech stack
go
Domain
backendsecurity
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