Global discovery: too many colons

Hello Syncthing Team,

I am running Syncthing on two computers in the same network. Both Mac’s. One is Version 10.9.5, the other is Version 10.10.4. Both local firewalls are off.

The 10.9.5 connects to the global discovery server without an issue. It seems to run alright in general. The 10.10.4 gets constantly this error message:

WARNING: Global discovery: too many colons in address udp6://announce-v6.syncthing.net:22026; trying again in 1m0s

In the Syncthing configuration panel the “Global Discovery Server” shows to be “offline”.

I can’t really find anything about this in the forum.

Can someone tell me what I need to do different?

Greetings, Chris

EDIT:

I just saw it’s running an old Version. I installed it with brew rather than downloading it directly from the webpage. Maybe that still pulls an old version?

Anyways:

I started Version and 0.11.15 and now it starts up but it still shows “Global discovery Server” to be 0/1.

[monitor] 10:18:54 INFO: Starting syncthing [VQT7X] 10:18:54 INFO: syncthing v0.11.15 (go1.4.2 darwin-amd64 default) unknown-user@syncthing-builder 2015-07-13 10:47:32 UTC [VQT7X] 10:18:54 INFO: My ID: XXXXX [VQT7X] 10:18:54 INFO: Database block cache capacity 65536 KiB [VQT7X] 10:18:54 OK: Ready to synchronize ComputerA-Share (read-write) [VQT7X] 10:18:54 INFO: Starting web GUI on http//127.0.0.1:8080/ [VQT7X] 10:18:54 INFO: Completed initial scan (rw) of folder ComputerA-Share [VQT7X] 10:18:55 INFO: Starting local discovery announcements [VQT7X] 10:18:55 INFO: Starting global discovery announcements [VQT7X] 10:18:55 INFO: Device XXXXX is “Server” at [dynamic] [VQT7X] 10:18:55 INFO: Device XXXXX is “ComputerA.local” at [dynamic] [VQT7X] 10:18:55 INFO: Starting usage reporting [VQT7X] 10:18:55 INFO: API listening on 127.0.0.1:8080 [VQT7X] 10:18:56 INFO: Established secure connection to XXXXX at [sxsxsx%en5]:59042-[xsxsxs%en5]:22000 [VQT7X] 10:18:56 INFO: Unexpected folder ID “test” sent from device “XXXXX”; ensure that the folder exists and that this device is selected under “Share With” in the folder configuration. [VQT7X] 10:18:56 INFO: Device XXXXX client is “syncthing v0.11.15” [VQT7X] 10:18:56 INFO: Device XXXXX name is “Server” [VQT7X] 10:19:05 INFO: No UPnP device detected [VQT7X] 10:20:02 INFO: Restarting [VQT7X] 10:20:02 OK: Exiting [monitor] 10:20:02 INFO: Syncthing exited: exit status 3 [monitor] 10:20:03 INFO: Starting syncthing [VQT7X] 10:20:03 INFO: syncthing v0.11.15 (go1.4.2 darwin-amd64 default) unknown-user@syncthing-builder 2015-07-13 10:47:32 UTC [VQT7X] 10:20:03 INFO: My ID: XXXXX [VQT7X] 10:20:03 INFO: Database block cache capacity 65536 KiB [VQT7X] 10:20:03 OK: Ready to synchronize ComputerA-Share (read-write) [VQT7X] 10:20:03 OK: Ready to synchronize test (read-write) [VQT7X] 10:20:03 INFO: Starting web GUI on http://127.0.0.1:8080/ [VQT7X] 10:20:03 INFO: Completed initial scan (rw) of folder ComputerA-Share [VQT7X] 10:20:03 INFO: Completed initial scan (rw) of folder test [VQT7X] 10:20:03 INFO: Starting local discovery announcements [VQT7X] 10:20:03 INFO: Starting global discovery announcements [VQT7X] 10:20:03 INFO: Device XXXXX is “Server” at [dynamic] [VQT7X] 10:20:03 INFO: Device XXXXX is “ComputerA.local” at [dynamic] [VQT7X] 10:20:03 INFO: Starting usage reporting [VQT7X] 10:20:03 INFO: API listening on 127.0.0.1:8080 [VQT7X] 10:20:13 INFO: No UPnP device detected [VQT7X] 10:20:35 INFO: Established secure connection to XXXXX at 192.168.2.106:59084-192.168.2.132:22000 [VQT7X] 10:20:35 INFO: Device XXXXX client is “syncthing v0.11.15” [VQT7X] 10:20:35 INFO: Device XXXXX name is “Server”

Can you post the relevant part of your config.xml? It should look similar to:

<globalAnnounceServer>udp4://announce.syncthing.net:22026</globalAnnounceServer>
<globalAnnounceServer>udp6://announce-v6.syncthing.net:22026</globalAnnounceServer>

Bingo:

Looked into the config.xml (can be found in ~/Library/Application Support/Syncthing) and found that the udp4 entry was missing.

Added it, restarted Syncthing and now Global Discovery Server Shows 1/2.

Thanks for that, calmh. Wouldn’t have found that myself. Also helped me to understand the config of Syncthing a bit better.

I will now be able to start playing around with Syncthing over the weekend :wink:

Cheers, Chris

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