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Re: Tailscale Down

#11

Nothing personal against tailscale but I hope it drives the point home that leaving the hosting of the key exchange server for your mesh network to an external entity is a little bit ridiculous.

Are self-hosted solutions impervious to outages? I wasn't aware.

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Both the web interface and connections are down now. Was just fiddling with my private DNS serving both my local network and tailnet, when I lost access to the device listing around 20 minutes ago. Now I also cannot connect through tailnet IPs anymore. EDIT: took me a good minute to realise this too, as I thought I'd just screwed up something in my Pi's ipv6 configuration for the 3rd time in an hour. P.S. you beat me…

hide just removes the submission from your page/new, it doesn't remove it from HN.. delete does that.

Good to know, but then again, I don't see such an option for my submission. Guess I'll just have to live with it.

Re: Tailscale Down

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post #11

Nothing personal against tailscale but I hope it drives the point home that leaving the hosting of the key exchange server for your mesh network to an external entity is a little bit ridiculous.

Are self-hosted solutions impervious to outages? I wasn't aware.

Who said that

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#16

Massive outages of core Internet services popping up shortly after corps firing devs and bragging about AI writing more of their code.

I could be mistaken but I don't recall Tailscale being one of these?

Tailscale is definitely not one of that crowd. Their CEO had some very reasonable takes on AI and developers on LinkedIn / their blog (linked in a sibling comment).

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#17

Nothing personal against tailscale but I hope it drives the point home that leaving the hosting of the key exchange server for your mesh network to an external entity is a little bit ridiculous.

If your key exchange server is on us-east-1 are you also ridiculous?

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#19

Nothing personal against tailscale but I hope it drives the point home that leaving the hosting of the key exchange server for your mesh network to an external entity is a little bit ridiculous.

with Tailscale Lock you have a lot more control, you can also self-host your coordinator server which is an alternative even mentioned in the service docs[0]

[0] https://tailscale.com/kb/1226/tailnet-lock

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

hide just removes the submission from your page/new, it doesn't remove it from HN.. delete does that.

Good to know, but then again, I don't see such an option for my submission. Guess I'll just have to live with it.

You can only delete a submission in the first 10 minutes and only if nobody has commented yet.
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