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Tailscale employee here. Tailscale has a fallback that does connections to a relay server called DERP. DERP works over HTTPS, so if you can't access the outside

by xena 5y ago

Tailscale employee here. Tailscale has a fallback that does connections to a relay server called DERP. DERP works over HTTPS, so if you can't access the outside world via HTTPS then you have much bigger problems than Tailscale not working.

anderspitman 5y ago
Is DERP raw HTTP or based on WebSockets?
- ignoramous 5y ago
  derp seems to be its own protocol. tailscale seems to prefer websocket transport for derp frames: https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale/blob/505f844/derp/derphttp/derphttp_client.go#L5 https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale/blob/505f844/derp/der...