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Probably a great idea, but pretty poor onboarding documentation. I read the entire manual and still have no idea what the user experience looks like once conne

Probably a great idea, but pretty poor onboarding documentation. I read the entire manual and still have no idea what the user experience looks like once connected. How do I reach the connected nodes? ZEroTier DNS? IP? Do I pass the ZeroTier ID directly to my network stack and it’s accepted and interpreted?

gallexme 5y ago
It's just another network adapter /ethernet interface with its own subnet, u can reach every network member by ip, u cna push routes to members in the network settings, and future versions may also include dns names, in newer clients u can already push dns server addresses to members though
throwaway2016a 5y ago
I've used Zero Tier in the past but not associated with the project. Have you set up subnets on a Network before? If you have it's like that. It creates a subnet any IP within the subnet range will route to your virtual network. It shows up as a Network device on your computer, as if you had another NIC. The ID is used to connect to the Network. It plays the role a domain would play when connecting to a VPN. You could set up an internal DNS server like you can do with other internal subnets but it's optional. When I used Zero Tier it didn't have a DNS layer so you'd have to do it yourself with Bind/a DNS server/something, not sure if it does now.
- kajiryoji 5y ago
  I have found tailscale to be far more superior. For one, it actually works behind double NAT whereas zerotier just doesn’t
  - raarts 5y ago
    Not true. I used it behind double NAT without problems in the past. Even in 2014.
    - api 5y ago
      Success in traversing double NAT with anything depends a lot on the NATs. If one of them is symmetric, you're pretty much SOL.
joshxyz 5y ago
I had to agree with this, quite shitty step by step docs lol. But out of frustration from tailscale we tried it, and once you get it, it's easy

gallexme 5y ago

It's just another network adapter /ethernet interface with its own subnet, u can reach every network member by ip, u cna push routes to members in the network settings, and future versions may also include dns names, in newer clients u can already push dns server addresses to members though

throwaway2016a 5y ago

I've used Zero Tier in the past but not associated with the project. Have you set up subnets on a Network before? If you have it's like that. It creates a subnet any IP within the subnet range will route to your virtual network. It shows up as a Network device on your computer, as if you had another NIC. The ID is used to connect to the Network. It plays the role a domain would play when connecting to a VPN. You could set up an internal DNS server like you can do with other internal subnets but it's optional. When I used Zero Tier it didn't have a DNS layer so you'd have to do it yourself with Bind/a DNS server/something, not sure if it does now.

kajiryoji 5y ago
I have found tailscale to be far more superior. For one, it actually works behind double NAT whereas zerotier just doesn’t
- raarts 5y ago
  Not true. I used it behind double NAT without problems in the past. Even in 2014.
  - api 5y ago
    Success in traversing double NAT with anything depends a lot on the NATs. If one of them is symmetric, you're pretty much SOL.

joshxyz 5y ago

I had to agree with this, quite shitty step by step docs lol. But out of frustration from tailscale we tried it, and once you get it, it's easy