Zerotier-cli shows offline, zerotier GUI shows connected

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Zerotier-cli shows offline, zerotier GUI shows connected. I cannot ping other zerotier clients. It was fine last month.
I tried to install zerotier one on another PC in same network, and it shows online, but they cannot ping each other via zerotier’s IP either.

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Welcome! thanks for posting.

Is this on a Windows? What version?
What does zerotier-cli listnetworks say?

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Apologies for the late replay.
It is a windows server 2016 and widows 10 PC’s

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Hi,

I have been experiencing the same problems of late. Using Zerotier 1.4.6 on Linux daffy 5.8.9-arch2-1 #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun, 13 Sep 2020 23:44:55 +0000 x86_64 GNU/Linux

The GUI on my usual network shows that my devices are connected, yet on the zerotier-cli command it shows the network as OFFLINE (even after a stop/start/reboot)

zerotier-cli info        
200 info REDACTED 1.4.6 OFFLINE

zerotier-cli listnetworks
200 listnetworks REDACTED REDACTED REDACTED OK PRIVATE ztr2qzacab.....
...

As an experiment, there now, I just created a new network, did a zerotier-cli join <id> and it said:

zerotier-cli join REDACTED                
200 join OK

So it thinks it’s okay so far, but on the GUI, even after a refresh (and a wait and a refresh), it does not show the device waiting for authorization, i.e., it is saying “No devices have joined this network.”.

Doing zerotier-cli listnetworks shows:

200 listnetworks REDACTED REDACTED REQUESTING_CONFIGURATION PRIVATE ztrta7qa6g

So it’s waiting for that authentication to come through.

It seems something is not right.

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After I ran apt update zerotier-one on one of my debian machines to go from 1.4.6 to 1.6.4 I had ONLINE on my.zerotier.com network, but OFFLINE after running sudo zerotier-cli status.

I resolved this by purging zerotier-one

sudo apt purge zerotier-one

Then I had to delete the folder /var/lib/zerotier-one folder to remove my old secets and node info etc. PS only delete from the terminal if you know what you’re doing, I take no responsibility for you running this command.

sudo rm -r /var/lib/zerotier-one

Then reinstalled zerotier-one

sudo apt install zerotier-one

Then rejoin my network

sudo zerotier-one join $NETWORKID

Opened my.zerotier.com to delete the old node, then add my required IP to the new node and then authorise the new node.
Then check my status to see I was ONLINE on my machine

sudo zerotier-cli info

Hope this can help out the next person along

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Your answer works perfect !!!

Please let me add the start of the process in linux or BSD systems

sudo ./zerotier-one -d

I probed your solution because one of my clients was offline inexplicably. Thanks !!!

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Hello, I have the exact same issue.
I changed my SBC from a Raspberry Pi to a NanoPI R2S used as a Music Server.
I’m using DietPi as OS (strpped down Debian)
I first manually installed Zerotier
curl -s https://install.zerotier.com | sudo bash
got #“Success! #You are ZeroTier address [ xxx ].”
Added my new id [ xxx ] to my Zerotier Network and checked the Auth box
Than I did
zerotier-cli join My Zerotier Network ID
200 join OK
root@DietPi:~# zerotier-cli status
200 info eb10a0b846 1.10.4 OFFLINE

I tried to uninstall, re-install with no success

I also tried to install through the DietPi CLI (softaware installer) with no success

It is the first time that it doesn’t work for me, any idea ???
Thank you,
Jean

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I had to allow UDP 9993 through Firewall for it to work.