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Re: Tailscale raises $100M

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Post by aetherspawn »

Started using Tailscale the other week and it just blew my mind.

But: Now that they have more money, I just wish they could spend some time making it enterprisey and not hobbyist-ey.

Things like: improve all the screens with high-density modes so we can filter thousands of devices, not hundreds. And make it integrate better with Windows Intune for hands-free deployment i.e. if we're a Hybrid 365 environment, please detect the users credentials from their Windows install and login automatically. Maybe release an installer for enterprise deployment that silently downloads and installs the latest version so that we can i.e. integrate it into a Windows Autopilot unboxing experience.

Re: Tailscale raises $100M

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Post by Serow225 »

lazzlazzlazz wrote: post #146
nickysielicki wrote: post #111

Tailscale has a fantastic product, I’ve been extremely happy from day one. If you’re waiting for a weekend to have a few hours to try out Tailscale, don’t, it takes 15 minutes to get every device you own up and running and talking. This is the lowest friction personal VPN to ever exist, and once you see how easy it is for your own devices, you’ll wish you had it at work. The biggest risk that this company has is that…

> a direct ring of trust with friends The vision you outlined is great, except it doesn't work. The trust assumptions are too high, and even a great product like Tailscale seems to rely completely on centralized identity providers (you have to choose Google, Microsoft, or Github on sign-in). Ultimately, if you want to maintain full control of your online identity and network, you'll probably need some of the decentra…

fwiw, those on the Enterprise plan can bring their own IdP :) https://tailscale.com/kb/1119/sso-saml-oidc/

Re: Tailscale raises $100M

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Post by gzer0 »

apitman wrote: post #365
vineyardmike wrote: post #343

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But you can also try to get them to be Tailscale users and effortlessly share the devices with access control features they built. I share my home servers and game servers with family/friends easily while still keeping everything off the public internet.

But now your friends and family are locked into a proprietary system, subject to whatever the future incentives of Tailscale end up being. How many people can you connect on the free plan?

Everything in Tailscale is Open Source, except the GUI clients for proprietary OS (Windows and macOS/iOS), and the control server.

Headscale [1] allows one to implement a self-hosted, open source alternative to the Tailscale control server.

[1] https://github.com/juanfont/headscale

Almost all of tailscale is opensourced at this point besides the GUI.

Re: Tailscale raises $100M

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Post by anderspitman »

gzer0 wrote: post #384
apitman wrote: post #365

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But now your friends and family are locked into a proprietary system, subject to whatever the future incentives of Tailscale end up being. How many people can you connect on the free plan?

Everything in Tailscale is Open Source, except the GUI clients for proprietary OS (Windows and macOS/iOS), and the control server. Headscale [1] allows one to implement a self-hosted, open source alternative to the Tailscale control server. [1] https://github.com/juanfont/headscale Almost all of tailscale is opensourced at this point besides the GUI.

Does headscale do all the same NAT traversal that Tailscale is capable of?

Re: Tailscale raises $100M

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Post by lewisl9029 »

nickysielicki wrote: post #111

Tailscale has a fantastic product, I’ve been extremely happy from day one. If you’re waiting for a weekend to have a few hours to try out Tailscale, don’t, it takes 15 minutes to get every device you own up and running and talking. This is the lowest friction personal VPN to ever exist, and once you see how easy it is for your own devices, you’ll wish you had it at work. The biggest risk that this company has is that…

Also been a happy user since their very early days.

I do have some nits though:

- It's kind of finicky on Android, especially with exit nodes enabled. Sometimes I lose connectivity completely after connecting to an exit node, until I flip my WiFi on and off, then everything starts working.

- Not being able to auto-update the desktop clients, or at least update remotely, is a bit of a pain, and potentially a security risk?

Re: Tailscale raises $100M

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Post by LoveGracePeace »

karlshea wrote: post #162
gzer0 wrote: post #137

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am able to route traffic on my mobile device through my home network via the use of their "exit node" option. It allows one of my home devices to act as an exit node for my entire personal tailscale network. This serves multiple benefits: the main one being that I receive pi-hole filtered ad-free traffic on my mobile device via a Wireguard VPN with my home IP 24/7/365

I can do that without Tailscale though by just using the WireGuard app. What is Tailscale adding to this?

I do the same, for multiple domains I own. Definitely not difficult.

Re: Tailscale raises $100M

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Post by enos_feedler »

nickysielicki wrote: post #111

Tailscale has a fantastic product, I’ve been extremely happy from day one. If you’re waiting for a weekend to have a few hours to try out Tailscale, don’t, it takes 15 minutes to get every device you own up and running and talking. This is the lowest friction personal VPN to ever exist, and once you see how easy it is for your own devices, you’ll wish you had it at work. The biggest risk that this company has is that…

Isn’t it only possible to host things on your phone if you can have a listener that binds to a socket/port? I don’t think mobile apis allow for this. Am I wrong?

Re: Tailscale raises $100M

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Post by ignoramous »

aetherspawn wrote: post #381

Started using Tailscale the other week and it just blew my mind. But: Now that they have more money, I just wish they could spend some time making it enterprisey and not hobbyist-ey. Things like: improve all the screens with high-density modes so we can filter thousands of devices, not hundreds. And make it integrate better with Windows Intune for hands-free deployment i.e. if we're a Hybrid 365 environment, please d…

Consider penning your feature requests over at https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale/issues

Re: Tailscale raises $100M

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Post by aaaaaaaaata »

lazzlazzlazz wrote: post #278
cma wrote: post #233

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What are DIDs: Device IDs?

Decentralized Identifiers: https://www.w3.org/TR/did-core/

Very cool. Microsoft doing newish work on this, too! https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/business/identity-a...
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