--advertise-exit-node not working on Tailscale 1.6 (ubuntu)

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On an Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS I have tailscale installed from the package repository (this is the sources.list)

deb https://pkgs.tailscale.com/stable/ubuntu eoan main

and I tried to add the flag --advertise-exit-node but it complains that it’s not a valid option:

Mar 18 06:55:21 microserver tailscaled[29405]: flag provided but not defined: -advertise-exit-node
Mar 18 06:55:21 microserver tailscaled[29405]: Usage of /usr/sbin/tailscaled:
Mar 18 06:55:21 microserver tailscaled[29405]:   -cleanup
Mar 18 06:55:21 microserver tailscaled[29405]:             clean up system state and exit
Mar 18 06:55:21 microserver tailscaled[29405]:   -debug string
Mar 18 06:55:21 microserver tailscaled[29405]:             listen address ([ip]:port) of optional debug server
Mar 18 06:55:21 microserver tailscaled[29405]:   -port value
Mar 18 06:55:21 microserver tailscaled[29405]:             UDP port to listen on for WireGuard and peer-to-peer traffic; 0 means automatically select (default 0)
Mar 18 06:55:21 microserver tailscaled[29405]:   -socket string
Mar 18 06:55:21 microserver tailscaled[29405]:             path of the service unix socket (default "/var/run/tailscale/tailscaled.sock")
Mar 18 06:55:21 microserver tailscaled[29405]:   -socks5-server string
Mar 18 06:55:21 microserver tailscaled[29405]:             optional [ip]:port to run a SOCK5 server (e.g. "localhost:1080")
Mar 18 06:55:21 microserver tailscaled[29405]:   -state string
Mar 18 06:55:21 microserver tailscaled[29405]:             path of state file (default "/var/lib/tailscale/tailscaled.state")
Mar 18 06:55:21 microserver tailscaled[29405]:   -tun string
Mar 18 06:55:21 microserver tailscaled[29405]:             tunnel interface name; use "userspace-networking" (beta) to not use TUN (default "tailscale0")
Mar 18 06:55:21 microserver tailscaled[29405]:   -verbose int
Mar 18 06:55:21 microserver tailscaled[29405]:             log verbosity level; 0 is default, 1 or higher are increasingly verbose
Mar 18 06:55:21 microserver tailscaled[29405]:   -version
Mar 18 06:55:21 microserver tailscaled[29405]:             print version information and exit
Mar 18 06:55:21 microserver systemd[1]: tailscaled.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=2/INVALIDARGUMENT

Double checking from the command line it looks like I’m running 1.6:

$ /usr/sbin/tailscaled --version
1.6.0
  tailscale commit: ddc975fcb268a06dc39923ec5db93f1c95b8cfc4
  other commit: 995460c32665f1dab78c78512386235d275cf074
  go version: go1.16.2-ts3b83fb3

I was following the instructions on Exit Nodes - Tailscale about how I should enable exit node functionality, but it doesn’t seem to be working.

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–advertise-exit-node option should be passed to tailscale instead of tailscaled

tailscaled is the daemon,
tailscale is the command line tool which is used to control the tailscaled daemon .

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@darren Magic thanks.

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Where is the proper place to pass this flag? I can’t seem to find how tailscaled is calling tailscale?

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This flag is passed to tailscale up, eg:

$ sudo tailscale up --advertise-exit-node

Note that if you have this machine act as a subnet router, you will need to add those subnet routes to your command, such as:

$ sudo tailscale up --advertise-exit-node --advertise-routes 10.77.0.0/16,fda2:d982:1da2::/48