# Tailscale tips & tricks

By

Adrien

Symptoms:

• tailscale up appears to hang.
• tailscale status shows Logged out.
• ping login.tailscale.com works.

Fix steps (1‑2‑3):

1. Reset Tailscale state

sudo tailscale down sudo tailscaled --cleanup 2>/dev/null || true

1. Restart the daemon

sudo systemctl restart tailscaled sudo systemctl status tailscaled   # confirm active (running)

2. Bring it up and authenticate

sudo tailscale up --accept-dns=false --reset --ssh

• Wait for the “To authenticate, visit: https://login.tailscale.com/…” URL.
• Open that URL in a browser, log in, and approve the node.
• Verify with:

tailscale status

Here is an example of how to run a server in the background using Tailscale.

In this example im gonna use jellyfin service on port 8096.

sudo tailscale serve --bg --https=443 localhost:8096

• --bg runs the server in the background
• --https=443 forwards port 443 to the server
• localhost:8096 forwards port 8096 to the server

Once the server is running, you can access it at https://<your-server-name>.<your-tailscale-name>.ts.net.

• You can find your full tailnet name in the Admin Console DNS page.

You can check the status of the server with:

tailscale serve status

To stop the server, use:

tailscale serve stop