TAILSCALE IPv6. `tailscale status` had been reporting, continuously:
2 add route failures; first was: permission denied
adding address fd7a:115c:a1e0::6/128 from tunnel interface: permission denied
with tailscale0 carrying only 100.64.0.6/32 while headscale had assigned it
an IPv6 address it could not use.
Not a capability problem -- tailscaled runs as root with the full bounding
set. /etc/sysctl.conf:59 sets net.ipv6.conf.default.disable_ipv6=1, and
`default` is inherited by NEWLY CREATED interfaces; tailscale0 is created at
daemon start, inherits it, and the kernel returns EPERM for every attempt.
Fixed with a scoped systemd drop-in rather than flipping the global default.
That line carries no comment, but IPv6-off-by-default on a host with ~26
docker bridges reads as deliberate, and changing it would hand IPv6 to every
future bridge as a side effect of fixing Tailscale.
⚠ It must be ExecStartPost, not /etc/sysctl.d. A sysctl.d entry for a
per-interface key is applied at boot, BEFORE tailscale0 exists, and is
silently ignored -- the setting would look present and do nothing.
Also learned: setting the sysctl on the LIVE interface is not enough.
tailscaled only attempts the address at startup or on a netmap change, so
the verify failed for 60s until the daemon was restarted. Restart is part
of the operation, not an afterthought.
Verified: fd7a:115c:a1e0::6/128 present on tailscale0, health clean, mesh
and services (arbo, ytvc) up.
README. It documented the pre-headscale topology as current -- "Reachable
IP: 10.100.79.3 (WireGuard tunnel endpoint)", "No direct LAN access", and a
refresh caveat telling you to bring WG up. That sends anyone triaging this
host to the wrong layer, which is the exact tax the file exists to prevent.
Now: mesh primary at 100.64.0.6, LAN 10.6.110.50, and wg0 documented as
STILL UP with a live peer -- tailscale uses that address as its direct
endpoint, so it is load-bearing, not vestigial.
Recorded with it, because these cost hours tonight and will cost them again:
- Irvine is a TENANCY behind a Fortinet PFI does not control. Its TLS
inspection breaks Tailscale's relay and control channels (41 cert
warnings/week, 4 control-plane episodes in 14 days). Usually invisible
because direct peer paths carry the data. No fix on our side.
- Diagnose reachability with `tailscale ping`, NOT the status output:
headscale said "online" and status said "active, 19.7 GB" while nothing
on the host answered. Both are last-known state; only a round trip is
liveness.
- The ~26 docker bridges make tailscaled report captive portals.
Two stale claims corrected: the hostname rename it called "pending" is done,
and `ollama` is listed as running on :11434 when it is gone -- verified, no
unit file, nothing listening, no process. It is banned fleet-wide.
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# irv-ml1
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Secondary AI/ML inference host at the Irvine site. Formerly known as
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`ana-ml1` when colocated at Anaheim; moved to Irvine and slated for
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hostname rename to `irv-ml1` — **done**; `hostnamectl` reports `irv-ml1`
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(verified 2026-09-22).
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## Network
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⚠ **This section was wrong until 2026-09-22** — it described the
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pre-headscale topology as current, which sends anyone triaging this host to
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the wrong layer. Verified against the host:
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- **Primary path: the headscale mesh** — `100.64.0.6` (plus
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`fd7a:115c:a1e0::6`). This is how the fleet reaches it.
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- **Irvine LAN:** `10.6.110.50/24` on `enp68s0f0`, routed via the mesh.
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- **`wg0` lifeline:** `10.100.79.3/32` — **still up with a live peer**, not
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dormant. Tailscale currently uses this address as its endpoint for the
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direct path to nh3-scale, so it is load-bearing rather than vestigial.
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- **SSH:** `ssh infra-ops@100.64.0.6` (NOPASSWD sudo).
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### Known network behaviour — it lives behind someone else's firewall
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**Irvine is a tenancy: this host sits behind a Fortinet PFI does not
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control** (operator, 2026-09-22). Two consequences to recognise rather than
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re-diagnose:
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- **TLS interception breaks Tailscale's relay and control channels
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intermittently.** tailscaled logs `server cert for "derpNN.tailscale.com"
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looks like "Fortinet" equipment` — 41 in one week — and the headscale
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control connection times out periodically (4 episodes in 14 days).
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**Usually invisible**, because direct peer paths keep carrying data
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(netcheck: UDP true, `MappingVariesByDestIP: false`, an easy NAT). On
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2026-09-22 03:13 it went all the way to unreachable for ~5 minutes and
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paged — the only such page in 14 days. **There is no fix on our side of
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the boundary**; do not go looking for one.
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- **Captive-portal false positives on Docker bridges.** ~26 `br-*`
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interfaces here, and tailscaled probes them all:
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`DetectCaptivePortal(found=true, ifName=br-…)`. Noise, not a fault.
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⚠ **Diagnose reachability with `tailscale ping`, not the status output.**
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On 2026-09-22 headscale reported the node `online` and `tailscale status`
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showed the peer `active` with 19.7 GB transferred, while nothing on the host
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answered at all. Both are last-known state; only a round trip is liveness.
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### IPv6 on tailscale0
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`/etc/sysctl.conf` sets `net.ipv6.conf.default.disable_ipv6=1`, which newly
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created interfaces inherit — so `tailscale0` came up IPv6-disabled and
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tailscaled could never add `fd7a:115c:a1e0::6/128` (logged as *permission
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denied*, though it runs as root; the EPERM is the kernel refusing a disabled
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interface). Fixed 2026-09-22 by a scoped systemd drop-in,
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`services/irv-ml1/tailscaled-ipv6.conf`, which sets the per-interface sysctl
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in `ExecStartPost` — **after** the interface exists. A `/etc/sysctl.d` entry
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would run at boot, before `tailscale0` is created, and be silently ignored.
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The global default is deliberately untouched so Docker bridges keep their
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current behaviour.
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## Hardware
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- **Chassis:** (TBD — captured on next physical inspection)
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- **CPU:** AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X (32 cores / 64 threads)
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- **RAM:** 251.6 GB
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- **GPUs:** 2× (unlike ana-ml2's matched pair):
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- GPU 0: **NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090** (24 GB VRAM)
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- GPU 1: **NVIDIA RTX A6000** (48 GB VRAM)
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- Total VRAM: 72 GB across both
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- **OS:** Debian 12 (bookworm), kernel 6.1.0-37
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- **Storage:**
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- `/` on `/dev/nvme0n1p2` — 1.8 TB (78% used, ~393 GB free)
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- `/worktank` — 462 GB (1% used — dedicated to Docker stacks' user state, e.g. ComfyUI models + workflows)
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- `/storetank` — 1.8 TB (64% used, ~660 GB free)
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## What it runs
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### Native toolchain (`/opt`, owned by `llmuser`)
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Predates the PFI docker convention; still the primary runtime for the
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generative-AI stack:
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- ComfyUI, SillyTavern, SDNext, fluxgym (image gen / SD)
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- alltalk, alltalkv2, bark, kokoro, Orpheus-FastAPI, stablediffusion (TTS + voice)
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- llama.cpp, llama-swap, koboldcpp, aphrodite (LLM inference)
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- (⚠ `ollama` was listed here as running on `:11434`. It is **gone** —
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verified 2026-09-22: no unit file, nothing listening, no process. Ollama
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is banned fleet-wide; if it reappears, tear it down.)
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- ai-toolkit, chat-ui, h2ogpt, o-textgen, lollms, bitsandbytes (misc ML frameworks)
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- sillytavern-extras, simple-proxy-for-tavern (lkraven-owned)
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### Docker stacks (`/opt/docker/compose/`, owned by `lkraven`)
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Docker 29.4.1 with `nvidia` and `runc` runtimes. `lkraven` is in the
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`docker` group. `traefik-net` external network exists for stacks that
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need it.
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| Stack | Port | GPU | Role |
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|-------|------|-----|------|
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| dockge | 5001 | — | Per-host Compose UI |
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| beszel-agent-irv | 45876 | — | Metrics agent → Beszel hub on ana-docker (token mode, over the mesh) |
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| dozzle-agent-irv | 7007 | — | Log agent → Dozzle hub on ana-docker |
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| comfyui | 8188 | all | ComfyUI (node-based SD/Flux) — runs independently of `/opt/ComfyUI` native install |
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| kokoro | 8193 | all | Kokoro 82M TTS — lowest-latency English TTS, OpenAI-compatible /v1/audio/speech |
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| chatterbox | 8196 | 0 (3090) | Chatterbox voice-cloning TTS |
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| index-tts | 8192 | all | IndexTTS multilingual TTS |
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| qwen3-tts | 8191 | all | Qwen3-TTS — 7B multilingual TTS |
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| cosyvoice | 8190 | all | CosyVoice multilingual TTS |
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| fish-s2 | 8195 | 1 (A6000) | Fish-Speech S2 TTS |
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| kyutai-tts | 8198 | 0 (3090) | Kyutai TTS |
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| vibevoice | 8194 | 1 (A6000) | Microsoft VibeVoice TTS |
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| voxtral | 8197 | 1 (A6000) | Mistral Voxtral ASR |
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| parakeet | 8765 | all | NVIDIA Parakeet ASR (transcription) — bare `{"text": …}`, no `no_speech_prob` |
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| speaches | 8204 | 1 (A6000) | OpenAI-compatible faster-whisper ASR — `verbose_json` w/ per-segment `no_speech_prob`; serves Eyra. VAD pinned OFF, image digest-pinned |
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| stable-audio-open | 8211 | 1 (A6000) | Stable Audio Open 1.0 — diffusion SFX/ambience generator |
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| ace-step | 8210 | 1 (A6000) | ACE-Step 1.5 — Apache-2.0 hybrid diffusion+LLM music generation |
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GPU pinning comes from the compose `NVIDIA_VISIBLE_DEVICES` default;
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`all` means the model picks at runtime (typically GPU 0). The
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asset-engine orchestrator (`docs/asset-engine/services.yaml` → per-service
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`lifecycle:` block) gates start operations on per-device VRAM headroom.
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Exposed Docker socket on `*:2375` (for the homepage integration hub on
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esh-docker-vm, which auto-discovers containers on this host).
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## Storage watch
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Nothing acute. `/storetank` dropped from 92% → 64% after a prune pass
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on the native-toolchain side; keep an eye on it since model weights
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and training outputs accumulate steadily (misbehavior starts around
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~95% on either ext4 or ZFS).
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## Backup coverage
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Restic via `resticprofile` + systemd timer (01:00 daily) → `rest-server-nh3`
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(local to the WG endpoint site; lower latency than crossing back to
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ana-side). Profile tracked at `configs/restic/irv-ml1/profiles.yaml`.
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Excludes HuggingFace caches and bulk model files on `/storetank`
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(regenerable from HF Hub).
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When the ComfyUI stack ships, `/worktank/comfyui/basedir/{user,custom_nodes,input}`
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should be added to the source set (workflows + hand-installed nodes);
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`/worktank/comfyui/basedir/{models,output}` stay excluded (bulk /
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regenerable).
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## Refresh state
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```bash
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scripts/refresh-server-info.sh irv-ml1
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```
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**Caveat:** depends on the headscale mesh, not `wg0`. If the refresh fails,
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check with `tailscale ping 100.64.0.6` from a mesh node before assuming the
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host is down — see Network on why the status output can claim it is fine.
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