What people previously said about Tailscale

Older than the 25 on Tailscale’s page
“Trouble Playing Video Through Tailscale”
randicochea · reddit ·
“I'm able to view Plex on my phone without issue with my tailscale setup, but haven't been able to figure out how to incorporate the roku. I've read about travel routers being an option, but I'm trying to work with what I've got before I dump more money into equipment.”
Dark_Castle_ · reddit ·
“So I thought i could leave my Raspberry Pi running 24/7 instead and use tailscale to tell the Pi to wake up my MacBook.”
Allourep · reddit ·
“Do note that i do have peer relay setup in my oracle vps to avoid slower derps!!”
tkchasan · reddit ·
“Tailscale now has a paid feature to bypass subnet routing when connected to specific networks, but not worth the cost to me.”
Cremonies1 · reddit ·
“Is it just a UDP block or an actual Tailscale server block? Try a TCP VPN instead”
vip17 · reddit ·
“You can do the same with Tasker - not connected to home WiFi = call intent to start tailscale. Reverse when at home.”
MadMic1314 · reddit ·
“Yeah the tailscale derp servers are getting blocked, that's why I have to self host a derp server.”
iAmmar9 · reddit ·
“You only need to do that if the derp servers are also getting blocked, if they’re not, it’ll work fine with tailscale’s derp servers”
DevBoiAgru · reddit ·
“On my loaner laptop from a course I did recently, I wasn't able to install the tailscale client, so I used mutagen and set up a traffic forward so that whenever I hit localhost:8080 it tunneled thru an ssh session to my vps on port 443, and used nginx to handle all the routing to my apps as normal.”
AdGold679 · reddit ·
“Tailscale cooking”
odysseus0z · x ·
“With Tailscale, I can sit on a rooftop bar in the Medina of Marrakech, connect my phone to the public WIFI, and access my laptop in the hotel WIFI across town. Or production infrastructure on a highly secured server somewhere on the other side of the planet.”
9dev · hn ·
“Same.But Tailscale keeps sucking me in with new stuff to do. :(”
bradfitz · hn ·
“Had aperture for a while now (alongside Tailscale, which I've used for much longer). Wanted to try their integrated provider they've just announced, but I cannot get it to work.”
Nice-Information-335 · reddit ·
“>"like netcat, but over Tailscale's data plane"Half of the Software offering nowadays seems to be selling vendor lock-in at no added value and then making a profit.Sure there's always some negligible added value, and then they reinvent a whole stack for their ecosystem.”
TZubiri · hn ·
“Your actual problem isn't Proxmox, NPM, OVH or even MagicDNS. It's that one of your clients cannot run Tailscale normally, but you're trying to make resources inside the tailnet behave as if it could.”
evanmac42 · reddit ·
“tailscale wont work in this case scenario. but it has some bypass methods depending on what you want to do inside you uni network”
batnabat · reddit ·
“Uni network isn't really high-risk like an airport, and blocking Tailscale specifically doesn't do much when there are 100 other ways to bypass if someone really wants to. It just hurts the people using it for legit lab, homelab and remote dev stuff.”
Popular-Factor3553 · reddit ·
“I also spent a lot of time getting my Tailscale ACL just right - giving only the amount of access necessary to each device for each role.”
volcs0 · reddit ·
“My uni/clg has blocked access to tailscale, what to do?”
Many_Independence674 · reddit ·
“@BenjaminBadejo Self-hosted Matrix on a Mac Mini with Tailscale is such a clean setup. Love seeing agents actually coordinate through standard protocols instead of proprietary APIs. The privacy angle makes it even better.”
stevencheng · x ·
“I use macrodroid to start tailscale when i need it and it works pretty well. For web interface I use a browser only for that like home shortcut use firefox and my macro trigger is firefox open.”
Vilitix · reddit ·
“The main problem seems to be a DNS issue, but it’s boggling me that a device with tailscale install works fine but another tail scale device interconnected doesn’t . Is there an install guide for this setup or does anyone know the secret?”
Papagiorgio1965 · reddit ·
“Tailscale now has its own native oidc provider for idp within the tailnet, tsidp. It works well enough”
theLorknessMonster · reddit ·
“Tailscale means you can access them without publicly exposing anything. You can put things behind a revsere proxy that requires authentication like authentik or an nginx reverse proxy.”
pyro57 · reddit ·
“Hi, I'm a beginner in tailscale, i use it only for Adguard home and jellyfin. So I'm unable to imagine how i can get hack when you have to register a device to log in the tailnet.”
DaOfantasy · reddit ·
“I’ve moved from iOS to Android and noticed the one big thing missing from the official Tailscale app was VPN on Demand. On iOS, the tunnel automagically starts and ends based on our Wi-Fi or LTE status.”
Safe_Feed_4764 · reddit ·
“Yes, this is my approach now: a home server with devices connected via Tailscale. I'm starting to do more from my phone and less on the laptop.I haven't added my iPad to the Tailnet yet but i reckon that it could become a very comfortable and productive device for me.”
fallinditch · hn ·
“I don't think there's any other way someone can get into your tailnet, unless ofcourse tailscale itself gets hacked.”
Powerful-Set-5754 · reddit ·
“I use https://github.com/rknightion/tailscale2otel/tree/main and keep an eye on endpoints there (but also get an alert whenever a new endpoint joins)”
jcol26 · reddit ·
“Tailscale and its logs help a bit obviously, but they don’t really help me answer: who’s trying to attack me and potentially mucking around inside?”
Icy-General-9096 · reddit ·
“With ChatGTP / Claude Tailscale is a dead model, no reason to use it, only downside counterparty risk. Wake up people”
elbalaa · reddit ·
“I then installed Tailscale on my AppleTV within the same LAN at home and was immediately able to access devices on my LAN as well as surf the web.”
umo2k · reddit ·
“Tailscale has been around for a long time already. Its built on a tried and tested technology (wireguard) and once the connection is made between devices none of your data goes through tailscale servers”
Lion_tamers_of_cfl · reddit ·
“If I would asses Tailscale as a candidate for my company to aquire in my dayjob (infosec professional) I would say that reasonable assurance has been established, however there are always actions required by the customer/buyer to cover its own responsibilities to remain secure.”
Baksikrer · reddit ·
“Yeah man after setting up tailscale directly today I revoked access through teleport.”
Dharma_code · reddit ·
“That’s why this zero trust branding feels much more like many trust. You’re trusting the control plane, policy engine, route distribution, identity mapping, endpoint agent, update/signing pipeline, cloud providers, contractors, vendors and privileged human or machine accounts.”
xeroxedforsomereason · reddit ·
“Well, I was already sold on Tailscale, but you've also sold me on Tailnet lock, lol.”
pocketdrummer · reddit ·
“Tailscale is pretty cool ;)”
bafben10 · reddit ·
“It's a fair question but Tailscale is hardly where the action is here.”
alllmossttherrre · reddit ·
“I run Tailscale on my OPNSense firewall as both an exit node and with subnet routing enabled. When travelling I connect to my home network with Tailscale and can access all my other devices - that are not running Tailscale - via their normal LAN IP address. Simple and completely secure.”
LovitzG · reddit ·
“In the end i don't regret it since it is far superior than just wg in terms of ease of configuring stuff even on the move.”
SuperDrinker · reddit ·
“What's to stop tailscale employees from having access into your network?”
chikenenen · reddit ·
“You can ask codex to ssh over Tailscale to your Mac and sign your iOS app there, and install it on your phone from your Windows laptop. You can just do things now.”
francip · x ·
“I want Plex to use the Tailscale connection as a direct connection, rather than falling back to Plex Relay.”
FORCEBLADE14 · reddit ·
“Tailscale handles device identity, tailscale serve provides a real cert (no self-signed warnings), and the gateway adds per-user login. Both services run as LaunchAgents so they survive reboots.”
NoAdministration6906 · reddit ·
“The issue with Tailscale is that they use their open-source clients and headscale as means to gain user trust, but their solution is deficient due to everything mentioned above.”
ZoomZoomZoom · hn ·