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GitHub action waits forever and then times out

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
github-actions
Domain
ci-cd, networking

Research direction

Start with the workflow snippet and the Tailscale action logs around the hang, checking the v4.1.1 authkey, --exit-node, and ping inputs. Reproduce the timeout with the supplied configuration; done when the action completes the connection and ping or reports an actionable failure instead of waiting indefinitely.

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Description

We use a relatively simple config:

      - name: Tailscale
        env:
          TAILSCALE_AUTHKEY: ${{ secrets.TAILSCALE_AUTHKEY }}
          TAILSCALE_EXIT_NODE_IP: ${{ secrets.TAILSCALE_EXIT_NODE_IP }}
        uses: tailscale/github-action@v4.1.1
        with:
          authkey: ${{ env.TAILSCALE_AUTHKEY }}
          args: --exit-node ${{ env.TAILSCALE_EXIT_NODE_IP }}
          ping: ${{ env.TAILSCALE_EXIT_NODE_IP }}

But our GitHub action pauses forever waiting for something to happen:

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Any ideas? The exit node is working (verified via setting my local Tailscale to use it), and this seems to be happening only the last couple of days.

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