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Re: Tailscale Down

#41

Post by myko » Thu, Nov 20, 2025, 1:20 AM UTC

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.

For me tailscale being down just means I can't access things I'm not comfortable exposing publicly outside my home. It isn't a huge deal as I rarely have that need.

Re: Tailscale Down

#42

Post by _2d30 » Thu, Nov 20, 2025, 1:20 AM UTC

the_gipsy wrote: post #14

_2d30 wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Who said that

As LeoPanthera said, it is clearly implied.

Re: Tailscale Down

#43

Post by seemaze » Thu, Nov 20, 2025, 1:32 AM UTC

arthurcolle wrote: post #25

Thought this was for a product release called Down. Might be time to go outside for me

Tailscale Down® - Unscheduled network downtime to engage in the immediate needs of your meat sack existence. Eat food, speak with other meat sacks, expel food, touch grass!

Re: Tailscale Down

#44

Post by incanus77 » Thu, Nov 20, 2025, 1:39 AM UTC

arthurcolle wrote: post #25

Thought this was for a product release called Down. Might be time to go outside for me

Totally appropriate if your Tailnet name is goose-rappel.

Re: Tailscale Down

#45

Post by arthurcolle » Thu, Nov 20, 2025, 2:02 AM UTC

seemaze wrote: post #43

arthurcolle wrote: post #25

Thought this was for a product release called Down. Might be time to go outside for me

Tailscale Down® - Unscheduled network downtime to engage in the immediate needs of your meat sack existence. Eat food, speak with other meat sacks, expel food, touch grass!

Tailscale Down™ - What goes up must come...

fade out

Uncertainty as a Service®

Re: Tailscale Down

#46

Post by arthurcolle » Thu, Nov 20, 2025, 2:04 AM UTC

incanus77 wrote: post #44

arthurcolle wrote: post #25

Thought this was for a product release called Down. Might be time to go outside for me

Totally appropriate if your Tailnet name is goose-rappel.

I'll have to tell my ducks about this one

Re: Tailscale Down

#47

Post by metadat » Thu, Nov 20, 2025, 2:44 AM UTC

metadat wrote: post #27

Magic DNS has been broken on Android for weeks, ever since One UI 8.0 was released. No monitoring dashboard for features AFAICT. Bummer.

For example, see: https://old.reddit.com/r/Tailscale/comments/1onqe58/android_...

I'm surprised TS Team doesn't monitor it for issues.

<3

Re: Tailscale Down

#48

Post by apitman » Thu, Nov 20, 2025, 3:51 AM UTC

Would love to see something like Tailscale but local-first, where your devices use Bluetooth, mDNS, NFC, QR codes, etc for signaling and only fall back to STUN/TURN as a last resort.

Re: Tailscale Down

#49

Post by halJordan » Thu, Nov 20, 2025, 5:06 AM UTC

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.

Sure would be a shame if they all got together and decided some things for you. But that would never happen. Right?

Re: Tailscale Down

#50

Post by brewdad » Thu, Nov 20, 2025, 6:04 AM UTC

myko wrote: post #41

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.

For me tailscale being down just means I can't access things I'm not comfortable exposing publicly outside my home. It isn't a huge deal as I rarely have that need.

And if I am at home, the box is upstairs. I can connect a keyboard and monitor and continue about my business.