diff --git a/cmd/yggdrasil/main.go b/cmd/yggdrasil/main.go
index 5b75690..ec8c712 100644
--- a/cmd/yggdrasil/main.go
+++ b/cmd/yggdrasil/main.go
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ import (
 	"os"
 	"os/signal"
 	"regexp"
+	"strings"
 	"syscall"
 	"time"
 
@@ -188,6 +189,25 @@ func main() {
 				}
 			}
 		}
+		// Check to see if the peers are in a parsable format, if not then default
+		// them to the TCP scheme
+		for index, peer := range dat["Peers"].([]interface{}) {
+			uri := peer.(string)
+			if strings.HasPrefix(uri, "tcp://") || strings.HasPrefix(uri, "socks://") {
+				continue
+			}
+			(dat["Peers"].([]interface{}))[index] = "tcp://" + uri
+		}
+		// Now do the same with the interface peers
+		for intf, peers := range dat["InterfacePeers"].(map[string]interface{}) {
+			for index, peer := range peers.([]interface{}) {
+				uri := peer.(string)
+				if strings.HasPrefix(uri, "tcp://") || strings.HasPrefix(uri, "socks://") {
+					continue
+				}
+				((dat["InterfacePeers"].(map[string]interface{}))[intf]).([]interface{})[index] = "tcp://" + uri
+			}
+		}
 		// Overlay our newly mapped configuration onto the autoconf node config that
 		// we generated above.
 		if err = mapstructure.Decode(dat, &cfg); err != nil {