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codeandfire

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Registered: 2023-12-31

Posts: 13

[SOLVED] ZeroTier takes 2 minutes to start up

I've installed ZeroTier on my Arch Linux box. I'm seeing that it takes 2 whole minutes to start up:

# time systemctl start zerotier-one.service

real	2m0.208s
user	0m0.015s
sys	0m0.007s

I've checked:

$ systemd-analyze blame
2min 165ms systemd-networkd-wait-online.service
...

and:

# journalctl -b -u systemd-networkd-wait-online
Aug 04 17:13:54 hostname systemd[1]: Starting Wait for Network to be Configured...
Aug 04 17:15:54 hostname systemd-networkd-wait-online[748]: Timeout occurred while waiting for network connectivity.
Aug 04 17:15:54 hostname systemd[1]: systemd-networkd-wait-online.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Aug 04 17:15:54 hostname systemd[1]: systemd-networkd-wait-online.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Aug 04 17:15:54 hostname systemd[1]: Failed to start Wait for Network to be Configured.
# journalctl -b -u zerotier-one
Aug 04 17:15:54 hostname systemd[1]: Started ZeroTier One.
Aug 04 17:15:55 hostname zerotier-one[829]: Starting Control Plane...
Aug 04 17:15:55 hostname zerotier-one[829]: Starting V6 Control Plane...

So those 2 whole minutes are really being used by systemd-networkd-wait-online and not by ZeroTier, I believe.

What really is happening? Would appreciate any help. Thanks!

Last edited by codeandfire (2024-08-04 12:37:39)

codeandfire

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Registered: 2023-12-31

Posts: 13

Re: [SOLVED] ZeroTier takes 2 minutes to start up

This related question mentions that if you aren't using systemd-networkd to manage your network configuration, you should probably disable its two services:

# systemctl disable systemd-networkd.service systemd-networkd-wait-online.service

I've been using IWD on my laptop to manage networks, so I disabled them and voila ZeroTier starts up in 0.02 seconds now.

Surprising I never noticed this - but it solves the issue.