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

  • I_EAT_THE_RICH@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Another random Tailscale praise post in a couple days!? I feel like this is advertising. It’s just WireGuard

    • fukuro-ni@alien.topBEnglish
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      11 months ago

      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.

    • Oujii@alien.topBEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      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.

    • TBT_TBT@alien.topBEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      And why would that be? They offer a generous free tier, because they earn their money with companies.

      • sulylunat@alien.topBEnglish
        1·
        11 months ago

        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.

      • ObjectiveList9@alien.topBEnglish
        1·
        11 months ago

        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

  • capecodcarl@alien.topBEnglish
    1·
    11 months ago

    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.

  • eve-collins@alien.topBEnglish
    1·
    11 months ago

    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?

    • bwell1211@alien.topBEnglish
      2·
      11 months ago

      You’re thinking of Tails, the operating system. Tailscale is something different.

  • BandOfBroskis@alien.topBEnglish
    1·
    11 months ago

    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 😂)

  • Kir-01@alien.topBEnglish
    1·
    11 months ago

    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?

  • sowhatidoit@alien.topBEnglish
    1·
    11 months ago

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

  • HellDuke@alien.topBEnglish
    1·
    11 months ago

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

  • Reasonable-Bear5084@alien.topBEnglish
    1·
    11 months ago

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

    The android app is a bit rough though

  • Unkn0wn_Node@alien.topBEnglish
    1·
    11 months ago

    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.

    • TBT_TBT@alien.topBEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      Tailscale as controller based Wireguard VPN is absolutely not comparable to this and way easier to setup and use.

  • tiredofitdotca@alien.topBEnglish
    1·
    11 months ago

    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”.