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Behind the scenes they’ve obviously got a lot of crazy to deal with, but it seems to work well from the outside (just using it for Tailscale lookups, at least).
by aidos 4y ago
Behind the scenes they’ve obviously got a lot of crazy to deal with, but it seems to work well from the outside (just using it for Tailscale lookups, at least).
Have you had issues with it otherwise?
EDIT actually I do have one gotcha. There’s a switch in the admin panel to override real dns. In theory if you changed that option and your machines were currently using private dns on route53 to find each other you might be in trouble (don’t ask me how I know).
- metadat 4y agoThere is no open-source equivalent implementation available for the PITA that is Magic DNS, so I don't use it. This ensures that if Tailscale goes rogue, I can replace it as easily as possible.
- yebyen 4y agoI thought headscale added support for MagicDNS? There's at least one other comment in the thread mentioning this. It didn't always have that support, but it has been added and the gap narrowed.
- aidos 4y agoI’ve just had a look and GitHub and that appears to be the case. Note, I know nothing about Headscale; I’m happy to pay for Tailscale and support the team behind it.
- yebyen 4y agoAnd I'm just as happy to use it for free, I haven't set up Headscale either as attractive as it sounds to own my own infrastructure when I can have someone else do it for me... Tailscale is a really great service and it's so easy to teach someone else how to use it, compared to like every other VPN ever!
- tecleandor 4y agoAFAIK, you could register your nodes in Consul and then use its DNS interface to resolve them.