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I just recently tried using Tailscale IPs for all Syncthing nodes to add some privacy. It worked fine except for the Android phone, where Syncthing tried to start on the Tailscale static IP but hung because it wasn't available. That and having Tailscale use a significant amount of battery has convinced me to leave the Android connections dynamic.

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Ah that's too bad. Running Syncthing over Tailscale would have been the main reason for me to install the latter.

I faced the same issue, especially with timeout error after providing the tailscale ip as "tcp://<ip4-address>:22000". I'm not sure how to resolve this and any help on this will be appreciated.

I wish I could help you, but I couldn't get Syncthing to start up so I ended up clearing the app storage and set up the devices and folder shares again. It wasn't too bad. If you have a backup you could try restoring from that in settings. I tried changing the IP back in config.xml but I couldn't browse to the file location using my file browsing app and gave up.

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