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It makes me wonder why they do not allow you to have a failover that is in your own tailnet. Ex: let me use one of my servers as the control plane, if stuff goes down let that coordinate everything. Maybe its too close to self hosting for them to do it?
(There is Headscale though)
Interesting post. I appreciate their candor and self-criticism, but, as a customer, I'm consistently surprised by how robust Tailscale ends up being, and how rarely I've experienced an issue that actually broke my tailnet. The sort of downtime that might keep me from accessing the admin tool or something else like that is rare enough, but my nodes have almost (?) never failed to talk to each other. Pretty great. Cave…
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A network partition between the client and server is a network partition between two nodes in a distributed system, which is the P.
If there was a network partition, but it sounded like their service just went down.