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That is helpful to know for Docker containers, thank you.

The use-case where we find the renaming most frustrating is typically when we start a cloud instance with a Tailscale setup script in the cloud init (via Terraform). If we, say, change a parameter that requires Terraform to restart that instance, then the freshly-started instance will be given a `-1` name by Tailscale and the old instance will be offline.

I wish there would simply be a --force-hostname option or something of that nature that tells Tailscale "if a host is authenticating with this name, give it that name, any older machines using that name should be kicked off"



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