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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (9 children)

What about Tailscale? I know it's Proprietary software, but still.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Tailscale... is not that good. The underlying wireguard is robust, but tailscale control plane is completely proprietary, as well as their DERP servers that it too often uses completely needlessly. They can also block you off from downloading it, updating, or logging in, if you happen to be in a wrong country.

I'm myself looking for an alternative to it, but having trouble finding something I could share with non tech savvy friends while not being as complex on my end as, say, open/strongswan ais. Any suggestions welcome.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

Headscale worked for me, but I get the non-tech saavy friends part doesn't quite jive with it as a solution.

Still, anyone wanna ditch Tailscale and only use it for hosting sites across proxies? Headscale is great.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

Yeah I don't understand how this is different than headscale, but I'm very much not savvy on the pipes and tubes that make the Internet go round. Can anyone explain?

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