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Re: Tailscale Down

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post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My self hosted stuff has outages too. The even more annoying part is that it stays broken until I get around to fixing it.

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

Craftsman guilds don’t scale, alas.

Re: Tailscale Down

#52
post #29

Oh this is unlucky. I'm not affected because I use headscale (for my home network), but this is one of those companies I root for because the product is so good. We used to have manually managed Wireguard (one end terminating at Router) to create the similar effect and for my home, this is way nicer.

It's getting to a point where I _want_ to pay for it so I can demand better service from them :)

Just having tailscale ssh is so damn useful when you've got a bunch of servers virtual and physical and co-located. Just get them to the tailnet and ssh via Tailscale. No need to open SSH ports.

Re: Tailscale Down

#56
post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As LeoPanthera said, it is clearly implied.

I read the implication as: being at the mercy of a third party. You can do nothing.

Surely we aren't meant to believe that having some critical part of our lives or businesses dependent on a third party is "a little bit ridiculous"?

I don't imagine I should be expected to launch my own bank or semiconductor fab.

Re: Tailscale Down

#57
post #31

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.

I ran my own Wireguard for years, but its too clunky and difficult to put all my devices on it. And if the power at my house goes out, the net is fully down. I suppose its a trade-off for using Tailscale now, with a great command line tool and a great UI so I have actually onboarded the rest of my family here. It was too much of a hassle with plain Wireguard nodes.

Re: Tailscale Down

#58
post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I read the implication as: being at the mercy of a third party. You can do nothing.

Surely we aren't meant to believe that having some critical part of our lives or businesses dependent on a third party is "a little bit ridiculous"? I don't imagine I should be expected to launch my own bank or semiconductor fab.

In the context of software

Re: Tailscale Down

#60
post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Surely we aren't meant to believe that having some critical part of our lives or businesses dependent on a third party is "a little bit ridiculous"? I don't imagine I should be expected to launch my own bank or semiconductor fab.

In the context of software

So we are all expected to build our own payment processors in order to not be ridiculous?
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