listenAddress: too many colons in address

#1

Hi folks,

I’m just getting started with syncthing and am pretty much excited by all its features, its awesome documentation and … yeah, the project in general. That being said, I’m in a bit of a deadlock just now.

What I’m trying to do:

  • Make my syncthing client instance listen to tcp4://0.0.0.0:22000
  • At the same time listen to relay://my.relay.server:22067/?id=MY-RELAY-HASH

My use case is, that on the one hand I want to listen on all IPv4 addresse for local discovery and on my relay for global discovery.

The documentation states:

multiple can be specified by comma separation

This leads me to believe, that something like that should be a valid listenAddress:

tcp4://0.0.0.0:22000,relay://my.relay.server:22067/?id=MY-RELAY-HASH

That’s not the case. I’m getting an error saying:

[Z755E] 23:05:10 INFO: Listen (BEP/tcp): address 0.0.0.0:22000,relay:: too many colons in address
[Z755E] 23:05:10 INFO: c.S.listenerSupervisor: Failed service 'tcp4://0.0.0.0:22000,relay://my.relay.server:22067/?id=MY-RELAY-HASH' (1.000000 failures of 2.000000), restarting: true, error: "{tcp4://0.0.0.0:22000,relay://my.relay.server:22067/?id=MY-RELAY-HASH tcp4://0.0.0.0:22000,relay://my.relay.server:22067/?id=MY-RELAY-HASH} returned unexpectedly", stacktrace: [unknown stack trace]

My syncthing version is: v1.2.2, Linux (64 bit)

If anybody has an idea, I’d be interested to hear your opinion.

#2

Might be misleading. In the GUI you use comma separation. In the config they should be separate tags. Which are you doing?

#3

Hi @calmh,

I was working in the config file.

You are right. Adding two listenAddresses in the GUI, seperated by a comma, leads to the same config that would manually be achieved by this in config.xml:

<listenAddress>tcp4://0.0.0.0:22000</listenAddress>
<listenAddress>relay://my.relay.server:22067/?id=MY-RELAY-HASH</listenAddress>

Would you care for a pull request for the documentation pages to clarify this? :slight_smile:

Cheers Thomas

#4

That would be great. That article is primarily about the config format and should explain how that works. I guess it’s also linked from the GUI, so a note of some sort would be a appropriate.

#5

PR created: https://github.com/syncthing/docs/pull/468/files

Cheers Thomas

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