Zoltán Papp
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AddCloseListener deduplicated listeners by comparing reflect.ValueOf(callback).Pointer(). For a method value that pointer is the address of the compiler-generated wrapper, not an identity bound to the receiver, so every peer's w.onRelayClientDisconnected compared equal. All peers on the home relay register under the same connectionURL key, so only the first registration survived and the rest were silently dropped. On a relay disconnect those peers were never notified: statusRelay stayed connected and the reconnect guard never fired. The relayed net.Conn itself was closed by closeAllConns, so nothing leaked, but the peer state machine did not learn about it. Foreign relays had the same defect scoped to the peers sharing that server. Rather than fixing the deduplication, drop the peer-level listener registry entirely. A relayed Conn now exposes Context(), cancelled when the connection is torn down, with a cancellation cause naming the reason. This is the same shape quic-go uses for its Conn and Stream types, and it removes the whole class of problems around listener identity, lifetime and deregistration: the signal belongs to the resource instead of a side table. WorkerRelay watches that context in a goroutine whose lifetime matches the connection. A watcher that wakes up for a superseded connection compares the conn pointer against the current one and returns without touching the state machine, so a fast relay reconnect cannot have a stale watcher tear down the connection that replaced it. Client.SetOnDisconnectListener stays: it is server-level and drives the reconnect guard and foreign relay eviction, unrelated to peers. handleRelayReady also checks the conn context, closing the race where the relay dies between OpenConn and the readiness handoff and the peer would otherwise build a WireGuard endpoint over a dead connection. TestNotifierDoubleAdd covered the removed mechanism and is gone. TestForeignAutoClose asserted nothing (both branches logged); it now waits for the relay to leave the client map and fails if it does not.
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NetBird combines a configuration-free peer-to-peer private network and a centralized access control system in a single platform, making it easy to create secure private networks for your organization or home.
Connect. NetBird creates a WireGuard-based overlay network that automatically connects your machines over an encrypted tunnel, leaving behind the hassle of opening ports, complex firewall rules, VPN gateways, and so forth.
Secure. NetBird enables secure remote access by applying granular access policies while allowing you to manage them intuitively from a single place. Works universally on any infrastructure.
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Key features
Quickstart with NetBird Cloud
- Download and install NetBird at https://app.netbird.io/install.
- Follow the steps to sign up with Google, Microsoft, GitHub or your email address.
- Check the NetBird admin UI.
Quickstart with self-hosted NetBird
This is the quickest way to try self-hosted NetBird. It should take around 5 minutes to get started if you already have a public domain and a VM. Follow the Advanced guide with a custom identity provider for installations with different IdPs.
Infrastructure requirements:
- A Linux VM with at least 1 CPU and 2 GB of memory.
- The VM should be publicly accessible on TCP ports 80 and 443 and UDP port 3478.
- A public domain name pointing to the VM.
Software requirements:
- Docker with the Compose plugin (Compose v2 or higher). See the Docker installation guide.
Steps
- Download and run the installation script:
export NETBIRD_DOMAIN=netbird.example.com; curl -fsSL https://github.com/netbirdio/netbird/releases/latest/download/getting-started.sh | bash
A bit on NetBird internals
- Every machine in the network runs the NetBird agent, which manages WireGuard.
- Every agent connects to the Management Service, which holds network state, manages peer IPs, and distributes updates to agents.
- Agents use ICE (via pion/ice) to discover connection candidates for peer-to-peer connections.
- Candidates are discovered with the help of STUN servers.
- Agents negotiate a connection through the Signal Service, exchanging end-to-end encrypted messages with candidates.
- When NAT traversal fails (e.g. mobile carrier-grade NAT) and a direct p2p connection isn't possible, the system falls back to a Relay Service and a secure WireGuard tunnel is established through it.
See a complete architecture overview for details.
Community projects
- NetBird installer script
- netbird-tui - terminal UI for managing NetBird peers, routes, and settings
- caddy-netbird - Caddy plugin that embeds a NetBird client for proxying HTTP and TCP/UDP traffic through NetBird networks
Note: The main branch may be in an unstable or even broken state during development.
For stable versions, see releases.
Support acknowledgement
In November 2022, NetBird joined the StartUpSecure program sponsored by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research of the Federal Republic of Germany. Together with the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, NetBird brings security best practices and simplicity to private networking.
Acknowledgements
We build on open source technologies like WireGuard®, Pion ICE, and Rosenpass. We greatly appreciate the work these projects are doing, and we'd love it if you could support them too (e.g., by starring or contributing).
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This repository is licensed under the BSD-3-Clause license, which applies to all parts of the repository except for the directories management/, signal/ and relay/. Those directories are licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License version 3.0 (AGPLv3). See the respective LICENSE files inside each directory.
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