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It means you can self host all kinds of things and never worry about opening a port on your router.
by pkulak 5y ago
It means you can self host all kinds of things and never worry about opening a port on your router.
- anderspitman 5y agoAs long as you don't need to share any of your services with non-Tailscale users. Otherwise you'll need to set up some sort of public server.
- vineyardmike 5y agoBut you can also try to get them to be Tailscale users and effortlessly share the devices with access control features they built. I share my home servers and game servers with family/friends easily while still keeping everything off the public internet.
- apitman 5y agoBut now your friends and family are locked into a proprietary system, subject to whatever the future incentives of Tailscale end up being. How many people can you connect on the free plan?
- gzer0 5y agoEverything in Tailscale is Open Source, except the GUI clients for proprietary OS (Windows and macOS/iOS), and the control server. Headscale [1] allows one to implement a self-hosted, open source alternative to the Tailscale control server. [1] https://github.com/juanfont/headscale https://github.com/juanfont/headscale Almost all of tailscale is opensourced at this point besides the GUI.
- anderspitman 5y agoDoes headscale do all the same NAT traversal that Tailscale is capable of?
- vineyardmike 5y agoYea, but my friends and family would rather have a service that just works, has apps, etc instead of an open one. Tailscale is a good actor ~for now~ and ~for now~ thats good enough for us. Not everyday in every situation can I be an activist. I have a list of alternatives incl FOSS ones should I need, but I'll cross that bridge only if I need to, since this JustWorks. You can connect one person on a free plan, but each person can have their own free plan that you share devices between.