orangewhip

Hi again all, An update to my issue. A page or 2 back I was saying how my NPM was fully working with Tailscale but would freeze every 1/2 day or so. Well, it seems to have fixed itself. What I think fixed it.... Originally I was running stable Unraid but when this started happening I decided to switch to v7 b3 to see if that helped at all.... And it didn't help any. Exact same issues. But a v7 b4 just came out and once I upgraded to that....everything has been stable every since. (3 days now). Fingers crossed!

I haven't heard of that. I'll look into it. I ran NPM for over a year without any issues, but it was a different fork. Once I went to run it all thru Tailscale, the fork wouldn't work anymore because of the IP addresses it used, so I switched over to the Official fork and it works perfectly.. except this freezing. You can see how I have my stuff setup from my earlier posts.

That's how I set up mine. There is a couple things you need to do in your NPM settings to make the connection. I have mine all working, but as you can see above my NPM freezes on me once a day for some unknown reason I still haven't figured out. Under your NPM docker setup, turn on advanced settings and inside "Extra Parameters" put in this: --net=container:TailscaleDockerNameGoesHere You also need to set your "Network Type" to: None That allows your NPM to connect thru your Tailscale Docker. Ohh and yes, you need to use a The Tailscale Docker and NOT the plugin, although I use both so that I can also connect to Unraid itself via the plugin because the Docker allows you to connect thru your custom Network Type only.

Nope, still NPM still freezing up on me. I guess I'll just have to live with it as it stands for now and hopefully somebody does a step-by-step on how to get it working the way I'm trying to do it. Not saying my way is right or better, its just how I understand it more from the tutorial I watched from Tailscale themselves. Thanks again for trying to help. I'll keep reading up on all of it and see if I can figure things out.

Thanks again for trying to help. I followed your steps, got the LXC installed, got NPM and Tailscale installed, etc... Couldn't figure out how to connect them all. Tried for a while, just couldn't get it to go. I've removed it now, tried another NPM docker and it wouldn't work at all, went back to the Official version and my setup is working again...I made a couple changes in the config file that were different that the previous NPM I had for the past year to see if that helps the freezing situation. Will report back.

Thanks for taking the time to help out. I was working all day yesterday so I will go through it all now and see what I can do. I'll keep you updated! Thanks again!

OK. So, still having this freezing, Last night I decided to completely uninstall Tailscale and NPM from my server. I went in and erased all the folders and I uninstalled them just to make sure. Reinstalled them both doing fresh installs (no re-install) and started over from scratch. Had everything up and running first try......and then when I woke up this morning I checked on it, and it froze again. Simple restart of the NPM docker and its good again for 1/2 day. I don't understand ho this can be working for hours....1/2 a day, and then freeze. It either has to be a bug, a conflict that arises over time, or some sort of memory issue.

OK I've looked into The Cloudflare DNS only thing and that is actually what I am doing. It is setup as a wildcard "A record" pointing to my Tailscale Docker IP and it shows it as "DNS only - reserved IP" Are you saying I don't even need it setup as an A record? How would that DNS know where to point then? ** Update....I decided to just remove that A record and it worked for a bit, but then it kills everything. So that A record in my setup needs to be there still.

Nothing is open to the public at all. I've completely removed any port forwarding from my router as well. It's only myself and my wife that can connect to my home network using my Tailscale account on other PCs or phones. I didn't know Tailscale can handle the resolution of your domain. I was using Cloudflare because I had it setup with CNAMEs before I got into the Tailscale side of things. Not sure what you mean my setup is too "fiddly"? Other than Cloudflare my Tailscale is setup as a Docker that shares its connection with all other Dockers on the same custom network. NPM just handles the sub-domains and Let's Encrypt certs. Is there another way to do this (besides removal of Cloudflare as you mentioned)? I'll have to look into how Tailscale handles the resolution of the domain. I've run NPM for well over a year now with no crashes...but it wasn't the "official" version I started having issues. I had to install the official version because the other version doesn't use the default ports and it wouldn't work with Tailscale. All this is a new installation. In fact after it started freezing, I removed them both and started over again with the same results. Thanks for taking the time to reply, much appreciated. Any other tips would be greatly appreciated.

Hey all! I have NPM setup to work through Cloudflare and Tailscale. I was following this tutorial (Remotely access anything from anywhere with VPS and Caddy) which it is being done with Caddy, but I much prefer NPM and I was able to get it all to work. It all works great, as expected, however, overnight or after say 8-12 hours (not exactly sure how long), NPM just freezes and nothing works anymore. If I login to Unraid and restart NPM, it all works great again until it freezes and stops again. Rinse and Repeat. I've tried uninstalling both the Tailscale and NPM Dockers, etc...nothing seems to stop it from freezing. Other than that it all works great! Any thoughts or ideas on what could be causing this?? It's very frustrating. My setup: So basically I have Cloudflare using an A record to point to my Tailscale Docker IP. The Tailscale Docker is setup to use my custom Unraid network. NPM's Network Type is set to None, but I am using "--net=container:Tailscale" under the Extra Parameters to connect it to my Tailscale Docker. Inside my NPM I have it set to use a subdomain as the source (ie books.mydomain.com), and for the destination it uses the Docker Name and port (ie http://readarrdocker:8787). Like I said, all that works perfectly....but only for say 1/2 a day and then it freezes. Could it be a limit on RAM or similar causing this? I have 10 hosts setup in NPM. Thanks in advance!