Traefik suddenly looses entrypoint binding

alexandr · March 31, 2025, 6:45am

Hello

I am running Traefik on bare metal MacOS (no docker, no kubernetes)

Traefik is installed via brew and running as local daemon

Whole setup is behind Cloudflare

After start, everything is fine, but in few hours, suddenly everything brokes in interesting way:

I can not access any services, aka grafana.example.com is down
Traefik itself alive - localhost:8080 displays Traefik dashboard without any errors or waarnings
There is nothing interesting in Traefik logs, even in debug mode
No one listens 443 port sudo lsof -i -P | grep LISTEN | grep :443 - this one is the reason probably

While trying to figure out what is going on i have:

Reconfigure everything to run Traefik as root - just in case to make sure it is not related to MacOS protection (it does not like when someone binds to low port numbers)
Removed fancy plugin for oidc - idea was to get rid of any 3rd parties
Switched logs to debug mode - idea was to see something related - but nothing
Discovered that i was missing KeepAlive in service plist, but because it does not actually crash, system does not restart it

Setup is described here

Configs are:

static.yml

api:
  insecure: true
log:
  level: DEBUG
metrics:
  prometheus: {}
ping: {}

providers:
  file:
    filename: /Users/mini/.config/traefik/dynamic.yml

certificatesResolvers:
  cloudflare:
    acme:
      email: user@gmail.com
      storage: /Users/mini/.config/traefik/acme.json
      dnsChallenge:
        provider: cloudflare
        resolvers:
          - 1.1.1.1:53
          - 1.0.0.1:53

entryPoints:
  https:
    address: :443
    asDefault: true
    http:
      tls:
        certResolver: cloudflare
        domains:
          - main: example.com
            sans:
              - "*.example.com"
    forwardedHeaders:
      trustedIPs:
        - 173.245.48.0/20
        # ... removed to save the space
        - 2c0f:f248::/32

# # i was thinking it may be the reason but it is not
#experimental:
#  plugins:
#    google-oidc-auth-middleware:
#      moduleName: github.com/andrewkroh/google-oidc-auth-middleware
#      version: v0.1.0

as you will see, nothing fancy here, we are using file based provider, cloudflare for certificate rolver and single https entry point

dynamic.yml

http:
  routers:
    grafana:
      rule: Host(`grafana.example.com`)
      service: grafana
    prometheus:
      rule: Host(`prometheus.example.com`)
      service: prometheus
  services:
    grafana:
      loadBalancer:
        servers:
          - url: http://localhost:3000/
    prometheus:
      loadBalancer:
        servers:
          - url: http://localhost:9090/

tls:
  options:
    default:
      sniStrict: true
      clientAuth:
        caFiles:
          - /Users/mini/.config/traefik/authenticated_origin_pull_ca.pem
        clientAuthType: RequireAndVerifyClientCert

this one is even simpler, thanks to single default entry point

TLDR: we have two routes/sevice - prometheus and grafana

/Library/LaunchDaemons/traefik.plist

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
  <dict>
    <key>Label</key>
    <string>traefik</string>
    <key>ProgramArguments</key>
    <array>
      <string>/opt/homebrew/opt/traefik/bin/traefik</string>
      <string>--configfile=/Users/mini/.config/traefik/static.yml</string>
    </array>
    <key>EnvironmentVariables</key>
    <dict>
      <key>CLOUDFLARE_DNS_API_TOKEN</key>
      <string>[redacted]</string>
    </dict>
    <key>RunAtLoad</key>
    <true/>
    <key>KeepAlive</key>
    <true/>
    <key>UserName</key>
    <string>root</string>
    <key>StandardErrorPath</key>
    <string>/opt/homebrew/var/log/traefik.log</string>
    <key>StandardOutPath</key>
    <string>/opt/homebrew/var/log/traefik.log</string>
    <key>WorkingDirectory</key>
    <string>/opt/homebrew/var</string>
    <key>ProcessType</key>
    <string>Background</string>
    <key>ThrottleInterval</key>
    <integer>30</integer>
  </dict>
</plist>

this one just to give understanding of how it runs, key points here:

we are passing our statis.yml
we are running in background
we are running as root

Here is snippet of logs

there is nothing interesting or useful, or describing whats going on unfortunately

/opt/homebrew/var/log/traefik.log

2025-03-31T02:50:20+03:00 DBG github.com/traefik/traefik/v3/pkg/server/service/loadbalancer/wrr/wrr.go:213 > Service selected by WRR: http://localhost:3000/
2025-03-31T02:50:20+03:00 DBG github.com/traefik/traefik/v3/pkg/server/service/loadbalancer/wrr/wrr.go:213 > Service selected by WRR: http://localhost:3000/
2025-03-31T02:54:28+03:00 DBG github.com/traefik/traefik/v3/pkg/middlewares/auth/basic_auth.go:82 > Authentication failed 36mmiddlewareName=auth@file 36mmiddlewareType=BasicAuth
2025-03-31T02:55:20+03:00 DBG github.com/traefik/traefik/v3/pkg/server/service/loadbalancer/wrr/wrr.go:213 > Service selected by WRR: http://localhost:3000/
2025-03-31T02:55:20+03:00 DBG github.com/traefik/traefik/v3/pkg/server/service/loadbalancer/wrr/wrr.go:213 > Service selected by WRR: http://localhost:3000/
2025-03-31T02:59:28+03:00 DBG github.com/traefik/traefik/v3/pkg/middlewares/auth/basic_auth.go:82 > Authentication failed 36mmiddlewareName=auth@file 36mmiddlewareType=BasicAuth
2025-03-31T03:00:20+03:00 DBG github.com/traefik/traefik/v3/pkg/server/service/loadbalancer/wrr/wrr.go:213 > Service selected by WRR: http://localhost:3000/
2025-03-31T03:00:20+03:00 DBG github.com/traefik/traefik/v3/pkg/server/service/loadbalancer/wrr/wrr.go:213 > Service selected by WRR: http://localhost:3000/
2025-03-31T03:00:28+03:00 DBG github.com/traefik/traefik/v3/pkg/tls/tlsmanager.go:216 > TLS: strict SNI enabled - No certificate found for domain: "nist.gov", closing connection
2025-03-31T03:00:28+03:00 DBG github.com/traefik/traefik/v3/pkg/tls/tlsmanager.go:216 > TLS: strict SNI enabled - No certificate found for domain: "nist.gov", closing connection
2025-03-31T03:00:28+03:00 DBG log/log.go:245 > http: TLS handshake error from 5.182.209.113:13426: tls: no certificates configured
2025-03-31T03:00:28+03:00 DBG log/log.go:245 > http: TLS handshake error from 5.182.209.113:13406: tls: no certificates configured
2025-03-31T03:00:28+03:00 DBG github.com/traefik/traefik/v3/pkg/tls/tlsmanager.go:216 > TLS: strict SNI enabled - No certificate found for domain: "nist.gov", closing connection
2025-03-31T03:00:28+03:00 DBG log/log.go:245 > http: TLS handshake error from 5.182.209.113:13410: tls: no certificates configured
2025-03-31T03:00:28+03:00 DBG github.com/traefik/traefik/v3/pkg/tls/tlsmanager.go:216 > TLS: strict SNI enabled - No certificate found for domain: "nist.gov", closing connection
2025-03-31T03:00:28+03:00 DBG log/log.go:245 > http: TLS handshake error from 5.182.209.113:13400: tls: no certificates configured
2025-03-31T03:04:29+03:00 DBG github.com/traefik/traefik/v3/pkg/middlewares/auth/basic_auth.go:82 > Authentication failed 36mmiddlewareName=auth@file 36mmiddlewareType=BasicAuth
2025-03-31T03:05:20+03:00 DBG github.com/traefik/traefik/v3/pkg/server/service/loadbalancer/wrr/wrr.go:213 > Service selected by WRR: http://localhost:3000/
2025-03-31T03:05:20+03:00 DBG github.com/traefik/traefik/v3/pkg/server/service/loadbalancer/wrr/wrr.go:213 > Service selected by WRR: http://localhost:3000/

Questions:

may be i'm missing some obvious setting or done some dumb configuration?
is there a way to somehow answer the question does Traefik have the binding or looses it?
what else can I do to investigate it further?

So far it is not clear what's going on - trying to reach Reddit community

bluepuma77 · March 31, 2025, 7:37am

Traefik /dashboard/, which should be available on port 8080 (doc), shows entrypoints.

Note you grep the wrong port number, try sudo lsof -nP -iTCP -sTCP:LISTEN.

Note you should probably remove your email from the config.

alexandr · March 31, 2025, 7:55am

thanks, indeed removed email from samples, and fixed the typo with wrong port

the problem is that Traefik dashboard is up and running e.g.

and even shows https entry point

but actually noone listens 443:

and as a result

even better, without fancy listen stuff:

and the same is true for localhost

bluepuma77 · March 31, 2025, 11:11am

Traefik is officially a " Cloud Native Application Proxy", I don't think I have seen anyone running Traefik native on a Mac. You could try reddit.com/r/Traefik/ or open an issue with Traefik Github if you think it's a bug in Traefik software.

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