Unnecessary warning on Tailscale page: "Some peers are advertising routes"

[luckman212]

Since I started using one of my Tailscale machines as an exit node, I am seeing this yellow triangle warning on my RUTX11 with an error message:

“Some peers are advertising routes but --accept-routes is false”

In my opinion, this should not be considered an error condition. No reason to show a scary looking triangle. In fact, I tried to toggle the “accept routes” on just to see if the error would disappear, and this caused me to LOSE access to the RUTX device from my LAN because one of the advertised routes conflicted with a static route I had already defined. Ironic…

(Luckily I was able to undo that via RMS using the LTE connection)

[luckman212]

I also opened an issue at GitHub:

Spurious warning: “Some peers are advertising routes but --accept-routes is false” · Issue #16665 · tailscale/tailscale

[Matas]

Hello,

I can register this to our R&D as a suggestion. Can’t promise that this’ll get changed of course, since we would have to have more clients requesting for the same functionality and/or thing for change to take effect.

Regards,
M.

[Matas]

Hi luckman212,

Just to clarify how we categorize messages:

• Info (blue icon): General status or parameter details.
• Warning (orange icon): Recommendations or things to double-check for smooth operation.
• Critical (red icon): Errors requiring immediate action.

After speaking with our RnD, we agree that the current warning message is more of a recommendation, so we’ll adjust how it’s shown slightly. That said, it won’t be removed — if Tailscale provides this data, we believe users should still see it to avoid any potential issues.

Best regards,
M.

[luckman212]

Thank you, I appreciate this and agree with the proposed change of keeping the messages but making them appear less frightening.