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AFAIK, Zerotier is about equally proprietary, more-free (as in beer), and has been doing the node-to-node mesh thing instead of spoke-and-hub longer than Tailsc
by ssl-3 2y ago
AFAIK, Zerotier is about equally proprietary, more-free (as in beer), and has been doing the node-to-node mesh thing instead of spoke-and-hub longer than Tailscale has been in existence.
And if I remember correctly, ZT was initially created to provide something like this "New Internet" concept that Tailscale has apparently recently discovered, except they called it "Earth" and abandoned it in 2023.
(Some things don't change, I guess.)
- p_l 2y agoTailscale does p2p, not hub-spoke, with additional DERP system which combines various NAT bypasses with worst case hair pinning over HTTPS - you can host all components yourself.
- ssl-3 2y agoYou're absolutely correct. I didn't intend to leave to implication the fact that Tailscale is node-to-node, or that it is is not hub-and-spoke. (I even had this up in a browser tab when I wrote that previous comment: https://tailscale.com/blog/how-tailscale-works https://tailscale.com/blog/how-tailscale-works)