“Tailscale is encrypting everything once the traffic gets in to your tailnet. If you are accessing with `http://` then Plex doesn't know anything is secure.”
“**1.** Is this actually an insecure connection in practice — could someone realistically intercept my Plex auth token, or is my ISP able to see the traffic in plaintext — or is Tailscale/WireGuard properly encrypting everything end-to-end regardless, and Plex just isn’t aware of it because it’s not terminating its own TLS?”
“Tailscale is however a bit more polished at this point, not to say Netbird is bad (its what I use), but tailscale is definitely still a bit better, specifically in the app space (Netbird has a android app but its a bit jank).”
“That's the whole point of Tailscale, you set up a subnet router at home that advertises 192.168.1.0/24, and all your clients remain connected to your home resources regardless of the network they're using.”
“I've seen posts about using Tailscale to link the two sites so that my TV in Country B appears to be on the same network as Country A — but from what I understand, I'd need a second Ubiquiti gateway at the other home to set that up properly. Is that correct?”
“Tailscale is a VPN. This means that, in is most basic format, anyone that gets onto the vpn has unfettered access to your network (albeit your services will probably be password secured)”
“nothing proprietary has required usage because only the Windows, macOS, and iOS client GUIs, and then the coordination server are not FOSS. the coordination server *was going to be*, but headscale was created first so they donate employee man hours towards that instead.”
“Traverses NAT and GNAT.It just works: connect devices and they immediately show up in their portal. Most config is just clicking, but more advanced things can be configured as well. Definitely feels like a high quality product, not just something thrown together by a developer that learned a few network techniques.”
“I'm having trouble decoding this but Tailscale is a VPN that can traverse NAT when necessary. Arguably Tailscale wouldn't be needed if NAT didn't exist but considering the timeline I'm not going to declare a conflict of interest.”
“One of the things that's been useful with tailscale is I don't have a publicly accessible ipv4 address, but tailscale is able to get around that, presumably with some sort of NAT penetration.”
“I switched from Tailscale to NetBird for these reasons: 1) open source 2) I wanted to be in full control and not have someone else’s servers involved”
“I recently setup tailscale and I'm also behind CGNAT(courtesy to my ISP, airtel). I assumed based on docs and llms that direct connections are not possible and derp hop is necessary.”
“Plex is no longer publishing IPs in the 100.64.0.0/10 range that Tailacale uses when you add it to the custom server access url field. As a result, the apps aren’t able to connect since the ip isn’t published as a connection path. There are some workarounds discussed in the comments.”
“Netbird the company have been a wonderful experience to deal with. Tailscale kinda meh. Both do the same in the end, but one is us based and one is de based.”
“However, the official Plex app says my plex server is offline and wont stream. Did something happen in an app update? Clearly tailscale works if I can steam my library via my phone's browser.”
“My VPS setups are 5 different VPSes, with Pi-hole running on 2 of them (Gravity Sync between them; the second is a backup).Tailscale is on all of my devices except my wife’s cell phone (I can’t get her to install it). I have subnet routes for Alexa, but I could not get the other devices working.”
“I currently use Tailscale to remotely access my home media server. Because I cannot get P2P connections due to my ISP and CGNAT, when streaming from outside my local home network over Tailscale, the speeds can be slow.”
“(…) Tailscale normally uses WireGuard’s datagram-based transport, but automatically falls back to a TCP-based transport when absolutely necessary because of restrictive firewalls (such as often found on airplanes and some hotels).”
“does the kiosk actually use adguard for dns, or is that only happening through tailscale? mine wouldn't hit the nginx hosts until i pointed that box at adguard.”
“So, in your tailscale admin console you can see both the jellyfin server pc and the client you're trying to connect to it with right? And in the address thing on the client, you're using the tailscale ip of the sever pc with :8096 or whatever the port you chose is. I just wanna make sure here.”
“Tailscale creates a private mesh network between your devices. You'll use it mainly for remote streaming, but it can coexist with the local hotspot setup.”
“My main use case is running Tailscale natively at the router level, 24/7, so my TV, streaming box, and PC can pull high-bitrate 4K media from a NAS at another location without needing a Tailscale client on every device.”
“I set up redirects instead of having to remember ports. So jellyfin.network will always go to jellyfin whether I'm on my home network or remote on Tailscale.”
“Tailscale running as an App in HA will have virtually nothing to do with Unifi as long as HA is able to access the internet and you dont have a crazy maze of custom firewall rules. is HA able to access the internet?”
“This has worked flawlessly for the last few months, however I recently installed an update for Tailscale on my HA install and the latest Unifi OS update due to the security vulnerability. Since doing this I can no longer connect to Home Assistant.”
“Tailscale gives stable connectivity with latencies around 70-75 ms... so how do i connect when there is no direct connect option and tailscale works on L3?”
“I've done this at a prior job before where the guest wifi (which is what I used) I would just Tailscale connect to control plane via my mobile network (personal phone) and then connect to wifi and most of the time Tailscale would just continue to work.”