What people previously said about Tailscale

Older than the 25 on Tailscale’s page
“NetBird is a self-hostable Tailscale alternative that started as a mesh VPN focused on P2P traffic.”
usagisushi · hn ·
“I have multiple funnels running at once. I just put a tailscale container into my compose stack and that way each compose stack gets its own tailscale instance and thus its own funnel. Happy to share the setup if at all interested.”
justinc8687 · hn ·
“Using Tailscale in exactly the same way. It has been such a blessing!”
prtmnth · hn ·
“I have the same experience and I once found a GitHub issue about it. I don’t think it sounded like they planned to fix it anytime soon. I just added the Tailscale toggle button to my phone’s quick control panel and turn it on whenever I want to check all my syncthing nodes or something.”
eloisius · hn ·
“I love TailScale but was getting crazy battery drain on my iPhone with it installed and setup. Still use it, just not from my phone now”
girvo · hn ·
“The self hosted tailscale is also good, just not as polished as these two projects are.”
0x1ch · hn ·
“I use tailscale on my steam deck to play stardew valley with my son on my laptop, it truly is amazing”
dlopes7 · hn ·
“WireGuard is a great technology - Tailscale is like a usability layer on top of it.”
matthewmacleod · hn ·
“I pay Tailscale nothing, why switch?”
herpdyderp · hn ·
“just use wireguard; tailscale is just the SSO enterprise overlay with a pricing tab.”
_user_account · hn ·
“Tailscale funnel works well but you can only have 1 per Tailscale instance (1 per machine) at the https endpoint so if you want to have a few apps, the others will go on non-https, custom-port URLs.”
nacs · hn ·
“Tailscale is truly a cheat code. I have a web app that I run locally to control terminals on my Mac.”
theturtletalks · hn ·
“You IP address will show as that of the Tailscale exit node.”
NC1HM · reddit ·
“I'm using openwrt router with tailscale exit mode on. Will it detect my home ip address or my mobile isp IP when I am away?”
No_Barnacle6600 · reddit ·
“I do know that when I straight connect my Phone from tailscale app, It does work. So I am sure tailscale itself is working as intended.”
Absoni2011 · reddit ·
“Have you tried your local ip address instead? Like that we can rule out if it’s a tailscale problem or not”
Yiffenjoyer6969 · reddit ·
“So I decided I was going to tackle a project and set up tail scale on my home PC along with pihole unbound and route everything through my VPN and then also route my phone traffic to my home PC through tailscale as well.”
Crazy-Football-9308 · reddit ·
“I would suggest using jellyfin and having it help you set up a funnel link through Tailscale. A funnel link will allow you to access the jellyfin from anywhere as well if you enable remote access on ur jellyfin settings”
singh45393 · reddit ·
“Eine Lösung wäre Tailscale. Diese Softwear installiert man auf seinen Server & auf sein Handy / Laptop in dieser Kombination kann man ins Heimnetzwerk von unterwegs zb für Homeassistant.”
Radiant_Role_5657 · reddit ·
“yeah might look in to tailscale for now but i definitely wanna set up something i can just publically host”
ChimericYeena · reddit ·
“Also, when using the tailscale IP address, please make sure that both Device A and Device B have Tailscale activated!”
guanfi99 · reddit ·
“If everything is on the same network, Tailscale isn't going to fix your problem.”
amw3000 · reddit ·
“Technically that’s the local address example, your Tailscale is might look like this: 100.84.23.141”
Whole-Plant-9996 · reddit ·
“Put tailscale on the PC hosting the server and make sure it’s on the same tailnet that you will be using on whatever other device.”
SmexyStix · reddit ·
“Host Tailscale along side Jellyfin.”
arezee · reddit ·
“I seen to use tailscale to access your jellyfin server so I tried it out with no luck. I just can see it.”
RKilljoy_9698 · reddit ·
“Just know that Tailscale, and similar, are the answer to how to securely selfhost things for you.”
Digital-Chupacabra · reddit ·
“if it's just your own devices, tailscale and you're done, no vps needed. if you want to hand someone a link they open in a browser, that's the tunnel or reverse proxy route.”
achiya-automation · reddit ·
“For me, I need to provide access to clients that won't install tailscale, or any other VPN client. The tech hurdle is too high for some users or the client doesn't support it.”
DullPoetry · reddit ·
“I use Tailscale for these tasks. It is very little configuration and you have an app on almost every device, from mobile to Windows, Mac or Linux. A huge plus is that the software you want to access is only exposed to you and not to everyone else on the internet.”
Amr0d · reddit ·
“Use tailscale to connect them to your home network and then you can run a reverse proxy on the external host or use something like haproxy to forward all requests to your proxy hosted in house.”
_FuzzyMe · reddit ·
“"tailscale serve" if target audience knows what they're doing. "tailscale funnel" over oauth2 autenticating reverse proxy if they don't.”
ElectricalUnion · reddit ·
“https://justfuckingusetailscale.com/”
Quilliam97 · reddit ·
“https://tailscale.com the 0 config mesh VPN”
404invalid-user · reddit ·
“tailscale should help with this?”
DazzaButch · reddit ·
“Tailscale is such an amazing piece of software. So simple and user friendly. I was like, "I wonder if I install the Android SDK onto Grok Bot's computer and Tailscale, can I push builds to my phone over adb and skip compiling on my computer?"”
kwuchu · x ·
“Additionally, I was looking into Access Control policies and I wanted to mess with blocking devices/people with specific tags from accessing services on my tailnet. Is that possible with the single CNAME record \`\*.mydomain.com\` or would I need to create an individual CNAME record for each service and have Tailscale on each service?”
0xmaboro · reddit ·
“I find it easier, with tailscale I had issues with my own domain, while wire guard is truly one network.”
Brtrnd2 · reddit ·
“Depending on your threat model, also worth noting: even if a subpoena hits Tailscale/AWS, we never see or decrypt your traffic. We have metadata of course, though we do our best to keep it as minimal as we can, but we definitely do not see your traffic.”
andrew-d · reddit ·
“The obvious solution is to self-host the control plane. Then jurisdiction stops mattering. NetBird makes that easy, or run Headscale and keep Tailscale. The drawback is you're now the one doing updates and support.”
dragonnfr · reddit ·
“Hi to all, I'm currently using tailscale to be able to connect to my haos ( running in a virtualbox machine hosted by an archlinux pc ) when I'm outside. I use it mainly to turn on heating when I quit the office.”
Xwang1976 · reddit ·
“Muse is the first agent from a large company with Tailscale support. Meta—the consumer company—added Tailscale support!1!!”
mschoening · x ·
“I set up all my Services (Immich, Opencloud, etc.) with Tailscale Services just yesterday. It works fine.”
Cartman010 · reddit ·
“thanks, use tailscale for home networking (when away from home), hadn't thought about it for vps”
lanternaddict · reddit ·
“tailscale, pangolin, wireguard or any flavor there of. There is always the chance that your main VPN server goes down, but its low and you still have access through your provider to the terminal.”
txmail · reddit ·
“oh yeah tailscale is amazing”
-_-Trainer_Blue-_- · reddit ·
“I personally use tailscale instead of plain wireguard”
aiulian25 · reddit ·
“I followed Tailscale's linux install and it directed me to the mentioned github page”
zamarguilea99 · reddit ·
“Tailscale has identity built in if you use Tailscale serve.”
betahost · reddit ·
“Don’t know what to tell you, but I tried to get this to work properly for weeks before I gave up. There must be something missing in their docs (from back then, I haven’t even looked in about a year because I use reverse proxy and my own auth system, and never needed to look back)”
SawkeeReemo · reddit ·