12 mo. ago • 100%

The guy who wrote up the praise for Tailscale changed my life

I had heard of Tailscale, vaguely knew it was low-touch VPN, but I never bothered to look into it because I had Cloudflare tunnels and DNS/routing that I was satisfied with.

But that post here from a few days back got me to finally look into Tailscale.

And just - wow. I can't believe how dead simple this is. No more messing with cloudflare cli for tunneling. Easiest user management I could ask for. AND I can 1-click designate exit nodes?? So I can watch xfinity stream on my apple tv outside my home now??

I fucking love Tailscale.

Someone out there surely can relate to my first paragraph. If you are that person - this is your sign to go look into Tailscale NOW

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- But it can be, with https://github.com/juanfont/headscale .
  
  Apart from that: it is a service with a 3 user, 100 device free tier which supports many other self hosted endeavors.
  
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Another random Tailscale praise post in a couple days!? I feel like this is advertising. It’s just WireGuard

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- it’s not just wireguard, it’s wireguard with a built in set of relays and methods to defeat CGNAT. if you don’t want to deal with tailscale the company, just use head scale and host the control plane yourself.
  
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- It's not random, this post is literally linked to the other one. Didn't you read the title? It might be an ad though, we might never know.
  
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Tailscale feels so fucking sketchy to me

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- And why would that be? They offer a generous free tier, because they earn their money with companies.
  
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  Feels like a rug pull waiting to happen tbh, but I also don’t like the idea of remote access to my network being ran through an organization that isn’t me
  
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  Probably feels too good to be true lol. I don’t actively use it but have got it setup as an option just in case I ever need local access to my network and it’s something I’m not hosting. I also use Cloudflare tunnel though so can do the same thing with that. Either way, options are nice.
  
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Wish Tailscale worked on Android tv. Their app just loads up a white screen then nothing...

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I like Tailscale but I wish you could make the Android app always default to using a certain exit node when it starts. You have to enable the tunnel them go into the menu and select an exit node every time. It's a pain.

With my Wireguard client I can just start it with a shortcut and be running in a second or even default to always on with no interaction, but it won't tunnel over https like Tailscale will to get around restrictive network firewalls that only allow outbound port 443.

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I'm going to wait for the thank you response to this one and then I'm going to get on it.

(I'm just really busy at work 😂)

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I saw this guy’s post and didn’t get it. Can you help change my life too? My understanding of tailscale is it’s an ephemeral OS. You take out the usb from your computer and it’s all gone. What’s the deal with the VPN? Why can’t I just use a DigitalOceam instance with wireguard running on it?

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- You’re thinking of Tails, the operating system. Tailscale is something different.
  
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tailscale is the bomb. i use it personally on my homelab its installed on my openwrt router.

selfhosting is a breeze with all the available tech nowadays.

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Wireguard or Tailscale? I'll be the only one ever to access my home network from outside my home.

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- Wireguard 100%
  
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- Then Wireguard if you can bother setting it up. Tailscale is a commercial service primarily allowing you to traverse NAT and link remote devices together.
  
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Hi. If you are talking about this topic: https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/1835hns/seeking_alternatives_to_zerotier_for_iostohome/

u/piano1029 is the hero to thanks.

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Can someone post the link OP is talking about?

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While I love tailscale for remoting into home assistant and all of my local projects I've always had an issue with the exit node functionality. Works most of the time but there's sometimes a chance I'll choose a relay for no reason or just decide that the port I specified no longer matters and switches to something that I don't have port forwarded.

Also when I connect another client to an exit node the 2nd client had unusable download speeds with fast upload and the 1st client just works.

It's 80% there for my use case but it falls short by a little bit. Still using it though.

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I love my https://pivpn.io/.

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- Tailscale as controller based Wireguard VPN is absolutely not comparable to this and way easier to setup and use.
  
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Not being able to connect to two differnet tailnets at once is a problem.

This limits someone from wanting to use Tailscale for "home" and "office".

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Can confirm, Tailscale is fucking amazing. Simplifies so much and also has so many useful and well thought out features

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Someone here using exactly Cloudflare tunnels. My take it's because they allow me to not expose my IP as an entry point for any of my domains. Instead CF is in the middle, adding the extra layer of zero-trust policy

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I have wireguard built in into my router, so I never looked about hosting myself a VPN. Do you think I should look into it?

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I use netbird

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Just installed tailscale and removed my custom wireguard installation, thank you!

The android app is a bit rough though

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Since my router has openVPN I just use that, never seen much reason to go for anything else

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