What people previously said about Tailscale

Older than the 25 on Tailscale’s page
“I changed something in the setting about not using tailscale DNS, and then it worked again.”
mrdirectnl · reddit ·
“Maybe Tailscale DNS settings? If enabled by default then disable it and try again?”
MultiBoxGG · reddit ·
“The --bg is what keeps it alive through a reboot, which is what you were missing.”
benjohngf · reddit ·
“again this lets you connect any device together w/o tailscale or VPN or port forwarding and works with linux windows macos etc.”
gakonst · x ·
“I am trying to access it remotly via my tailscale funnel link example-text.ts.net. I set up the proxy using powershell. It was working a month ago but now it is not. I will review the above and recheck when I get home.”
MontiSeas · reddit ·
“It takes like 2 mins to set up and is good peace of mind.”
mightyarrow · reddit ·
“You can create self-signed certificates or even publicly signed ones you only use on internal domains. Tailscale doesn't prevent you from doing that.”
Accomplished-Lack721 · reddit ·
“**Overlay:** Tailscale ties it all together for remote access.”
Methodical_Science · reddit ·
“I’ve had a Beelink PC + Ubuntu + Tailscale + Codex Remote since July and it’s been great.”
dwr · x ·
“An attacker would need to get inside your tailnet to do anything so if you have tailnet approvals enabled (it’s on by default) then a Tailscale admin has to approve any device before they’re allowed to talk to stuff inside.”
madushans · reddit ·
“You can use a reverse proxy like nginxui in host network mode in docker and also install Tailscale on the os running that. You can then front door traffic from outside and route it across the tunnel to other devices running Tailscale.”
Conscious_Report1439 · reddit ·
“It's not the same as Tor, but you can subscribe to Mullvad VPN through Tailscale and use it as an exit node, that will allow you to use Tailscale and a VPN at the same time.”
Exodia101 · reddit ·
“I'm using Tailscale mainly to avoid exposing services directly to the internet, and I'd like to understand the remaining security risks.”
geler1 · reddit ·
“the tailscale setup was nice but the storage pool ui is kinda clunky tbh. bare metal compose felt cleaner for updates.”
TaxBunny72 · reddit ·
“But I think a tailscale offering could be very convenient.I am guessing cloud flare should have building blocks of their own, but it's a different layer than tailscale's.”
bigcat12345678 · hn ·
““Because tailscaled runs as root, files are received by root.” The documentation explains that, it has nothing to do with the destination folder.”
youknowwhyimhere758 · reddit ·
“Agent to agent communication across remote machines is definitely lubricated with tailscale, I’m not sure what value moving up the stack would bring at this stage?”
transitorykris · hn ·
“What VPNs does it work with in addition to Tailscale?”
mac-photo-guy · reddit ·
“Tailscale can cover most of the upfront headaches but I think you'll probably prefer to have set things up from the start with a reverse proxy and your own DNS in the future. It's the core of a ton of convenience/ergonomics, branding, security/access control, logging/observability, etc and the key to a ton useful implementation patterns.”
haherar830 · reddit ·
“Claude seems to be able to not only deterministically build control levers for Tailscale into my app but adjust it on its own through the CLI already. What does the MCP add?”
nyteschayde · reddit ·
“Work on Linux and Android with Tailscale. Because we also deserve some good stuff before everyone else.”
anotherCodder · hn ·
“Having a tailscale interface has messed up every pfsense I've seen it on when a reboot happens. Fails to load properly on boot up and you have to restore.”
Stunning-Throat-3459 · reddit ·
“Setting up a domain that points at the tailscale network ip address and then using let's encrypt (or any other provider) + dns challenge will likely help that if it's the case without exposing it beyond the tailscale network.”
simcop2387 · reddit ·
“I assume they are using Tailscale for the actual connection.”
zchrykng · hn ·
“you use tailscale on the phone and onfigure the router/ whatever to exit to the internet via tor. i did that with protonvpn on openwrt router”
Electrical_Oil446 · reddit ·
“Could you select a tailscale exit node that is running orbot or torvpn?”
RlCKJAMESBlTCH · reddit ·
“Note: Tailscale is just something I've been using for some time but I'm happy to switch to something else if it solves the issue.”
Vegetable-Tap-6297 · reddit ·
“tailscale + cloudflare for lets encrypt support. can then give family tailscale access”
fl0id · hn ·
“In the Tailscale app it allows you to choose the device you want as the endpoint.”
AccomplishedOne1950 · reddit ·
“That said, Tailscale is good for reverse proxy, you won't need another one, but I personally prefer (containerized) nginx.”
jklaze · reddit ·
“For Jellyfin and the other services, I would like to access them remotely through Tailscale instead of exposing everything directly to the internet.”
saika_gi · reddit ·
“are you using tailscale serve?”
macmanluke · reddit ·
“this is likely a WebSocket issue the browser extension needs a direct websocket connection to vaultwarden to sync in real time but your reverse proxy or tailscale setup might be blocking it”
Hot-Replacement-323 · reddit ·
“When you access the web app, is that through tailscale as well or local?”
Edianultra · reddit ·
“But every time i have the same problem: when trying to log into a website, Bitwarden, the browser module, cannot retrieve information i think. And just doesn't work.”
Vincendre · reddit ·
“Tailscale is not the solution for this. You need to put your ISP router in bridge mode, then plug your own router into it.”
Terreboo · reddit ·
“(Tailscale is great for me, but not feasible for family)”
thesh4d0w · hn ·
“tailscaled I also forgot to mention my version of pfsense, 2.9.0.”
ekomenski · reddit ·
“Just use Tailscale. It’s always 1 day away from an 0-day anyway.”
VladVladikoff · hn ·
“Does tailscale have any logs that could potentially help me figure out what's going on?”
coldfirehotice · reddit ·
“Although I don't use Tailscale, I do use pfSense, I am not sure if this is correct, but you have nothing to lose to try ChatGPT's recommendation?”
lmc9871 · reddit ·
“But I let Astra log into my Tailscale config and fix it for me. It did split DNS with a local/remote lookup, configured everything, and so on. In about 12 seconds.”
davepl1968 · x ·
“Would definitely be keen to see where Tailscale takes it if they pick it back up haha”
Stocist · reddit ·
“I have all my IPs below my Netgate LAN interface advertised on Tailscale. I can reach all my local subnets fine from all my other tailscale machines, but I cannot reach any of my tailscale machines from my local subnets.”
big_foot2808 · reddit ·
“I have worked for days to try to get my secondary server to be recognized by my primary server over Tailscale IPs.”
Playful-Sherbert-980 · reddit ·
“I have tried this but no luck and just reinstalled tailscale but still no joy.”
CobblerCompetitive85 · reddit ·
“I got tailscale and mullvad vpn to work quite nicely with each other on CachyOS”
TonyTrixeraTimothy · reddit ·
“AXT1800 + Tailscale exit node = total internet loss. Think I found it (fwmark collision), want a sanity check.”
indypharmd · reddit ·
“Tailscale makes private WireGuard networks easy with built-in 2FA and SSO support.”
the_osps · x ·
“I have found if you turn on Secure DNS with any provider other than automatic, when tailscale connects it prevents you from using tail dns, and tailscale prevents local dns. Under network setting it will say have an error next to Secure DNS and you will have an !”
SelfHostedHomeLab · reddit ·