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Re: Tailscale Down

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Post by nntwozz »

sureglymop wrote: post #10

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.

I heat my house with a wood stove, I'm not part of the energy grid.

I run my own WireGuard because I like to be the one responsible.

To each their own, no need for snark comments.

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Post by PrairieFire »

pepemon wrote: post #21

AFAIK, only new connections can't be established, the already connected clients will continue to work.

Pretty sure that was the case. I heavily use Tailscale at work and have been working steady on multiple VNC connected clients over Tailscale Wireguard tunnels without issue. Just wrapped it up for the day and hit the ‘ol watering hole (hackernews) to see this. I didn’t connect/disconnect or have to use the portal during that time period, but my in place connections were fine.

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Post by UltraSane »

sureglymop wrote: post #10

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.

Cloud providers have enormous economic incentive to recover from outages as fast as possible and can bring many more people to help, often ones who wrote the code and designed the system. I once worked for a state government where the exchange server was down for two weeks.

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Post by colesantiago »

jakebasile wrote: post #16
timenotwasted wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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).

But Tailscale IS VC funded which means an exit is imminent and around the corner.

Not good.

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Post by derefr »

ksenzee wrote: post #26
petcat wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Imagine if stays broken until somebody else gets around to fixing it

There are more somebody elses than there are mes.

And for some specific somebody, fixing the problem is their whole job. It’s definitely not my whole job. Maybe not even my job at all (if it’s something I just use as part of a personal hobby.)

Re: Tailscale Down

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Post by briffle »

UltraSane wrote: post #34
sureglymop wrote: post #10

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.

Cloud providers have enormous economic incentive to recover from outages as fast as possible and can bring many more people to help, often ones who wrote the code and designed the system. I once worked for a state government where the exchange server was down for two weeks.

I had to deal with a state Medicaid system that would go down often. If it crashed after 5pm, it was down until the next morning when someone rebooted the SunOS box. (Yes, they just rebooted the box, and no, in 2014 it was still sunos, not Solaris). Meanwhile, it’s messing up pharmacy authorization for thousand of elderly and low income people in the state ….
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