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Ah, by using their servers: > How do we break the deadlock? That’s where STUN comes in. [...] In Tailscale, our coordination server and fleet of DERP (Detour E

by lucb1e 11mo ago

Ah, by using their servers: > How do we break the deadlock? That’s where STUN comes in. [...] In Tailscale, our coordination server and fleet of DERP (Detour Encrypted Routing Protocol) servers act as our side channel

UltraSane 11mo ago
Yes, NAT traversal is used widely. It is only needed at the start of the connection to get both firewalls to open ports. The encrypted wireguard tunnel is point to point
- lucb1e 11mo ago
  What I find crazy is that people describe "not self hosting" as a "like magic" solution to self hosting
  - UltraSane 11mo ago
    You can run your own DERP server if you really want to docker run -d --name derper -p 443:443 -p 3478:3478/udp \ ghcr.io/tailscale/derper:latest