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I'm wondering if there's any benefit to the average tech-savvy person to using Tailscale/ZeroTier as a VPN (with a VPS, say) vs. just using a consumer-facing VP

• Anunayj 5y ago
  Well if you're using VPN for well "shady stuff" (e.g. torrenting), I don't suppose a VPS with your Full name, credit card, and billing address is specially helpful. But except that deploying Wireguard* on a VPS for bypassing censorship/georestrictions is quite nice and cheaper compared to many paid ones. * Tailscale and Zerotier aren't really needed if you want to route all your traffic thru a single machine, wireguard itself does exactly this.
• e12e 5y ago
  It's possible to set up tailscale with exit node routing (ie: similar to what Mullvad does) - but it will be your exit node (eg: an on-prem server, a vm you manage). So that basically allows you to do legacy access control via ip whitelists (only allow IP our.office to talk to your.dmz.service that we develop manage for you). If possible, just bringing the node/servicenin question "into" the wireguard/tailscale network would be better. But good luck getting a hospital to allow you to connect your tailscale to their patient record db (or what have you - obviously in this case you'd hope they have a solid vpn and give you access.. ). For the use case of "talk via vm through mullvad exit node" i suppose you could set up Mullvad on the vm, and tailscale on the vm with Mullvad vpn as exit node, then join all your other nodes to tailscale. Tailscale would replace how you connect to your vm, not mullvad. https://tailscale.com/kb/1103/exit-nodes/ https://tailscale.com/kb/1103/exit-nodes/ https://tailscale.com/kb/1019/subnets/ https://tailscale.com/kb/1019/subnets/