tinc

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Flynn Marquardt noticed that an article about tinc has appeared in the German c’t Magazin, titled “Maschen-VPN”.

Native access to the git repository has been enabled, since the denial-of-service bug in git-daemon has been fixed. Grzegorz Dymarek has managed to build tinc for the iPhone and iPod touch. These devices do not have a native tun or tap device, but make use of the tunemu driver. His patches have been committed to the repository.

Christoph Rackwitz reported that tinc 1.0.9 ran on Windows 7. The TAP-Win32 driver from OpenVPN is signed, and can be installed instead of the one that comes with the Windows installer.

Peter Dey reports that tinc works fine under 64-bit Vista. He used a recent TAP-Win64 driver from OpenVPN, which is signed.

Version 1.0.9 released. Fixed tinc as a service under Windows 2003. Fixed reading configuration files that do not end with a newline. Fixed crashes in situations where hostnames could not be resolved or hosts would disconnect at the same time as ... [More] session keys were exchanged. Improved default settings of tun and tap devices on BSD platforms. Make IPv6 sockets bind only to IPv6 on Linux. Enable path MTU discovery by default. Fixed a memory leak that occured when connections were closed. [Less]

Tinc development has moved from Subversion to a git repository. The old Subversion repository, with commits up to the release of tinc 1.0.9, is still available for now, but will not be updated anymore.

Debian Security Advisory 1571 affects tinc as well. Read more about it here.

Version 1.0.8 released. Fixed some memory and resource leaks. Made network sockets non-blocking under Windows.

Version 1.0.7 released. Fixed a bug that caused slow network speeds on Windows. Fixed a bug that caused tinc unable to write packets to the tun device on OpenBSD.