Comment on Friendly reminder that Tailscale is VC-funded and driving towards IPO

httperror418@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• couch1potato@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Headscale is the tailscale backend server

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  • avidamoeba@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Well not “the” backend server but “a” different backend server. As far as I know Headscale is a separate implementation from what Tailscale run themselves.

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• Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  We’ve implemented netbird at my company, we’re pretty happy with it overall.

  The main drawback is that it has no way of handling multiple different accounts on the same machine, and they don’t seem to have any plans for ever really solving that. As long as you can live with that, it’s a good solution.

  Support is a mixed bag. Mostly just a slack server, kind of lacking in what I’d call enterprise level support. But development seems to be moving at a rapid pace, and they’re definitely in that “Small but eager” stage where everything happens quickly. I’ve reported bugs and had them fixed the same day.

  Everything is open source. Backend, clients, the whole bag. So if they ever try to enshittify, you can just take your ball and leave.

  Also, the security tools are really cool. Instead of writing out firewall rules by hand like Tailscale, they have a really nice, really simple GUI for setting up all your ACLs. I found it very intuitive.

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  • httperror418@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Thank you for your insight, I’m assuming the only public part is the UI and coturn (the bit that enables two clients between firewalls to hole-punch)?

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    • Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Yes, the underlying model is the same as Tailscale, Zerotier and Netmaker (also worth checking out, btw). Clients connect to a central host (which can be self-hosted) and use that to exchange information on addresses and open ports, then form direct connections to each other.

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• sonosonic@lemy.lol ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Is there an issue with Netbird’s servers at the moment? In my testing devices are connected and reach eachother, but the web admin is missing a lot of functionality compared to what’s in the docs. The peer devices section is there, but everything else, user settings, rules etc, isn’t showing/says I don’t have admin permission (of my own account… Lol?)

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  • httperror418@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Honestly, no idea, worth checking their GitHub etc or their status pages if they have any

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