And there’s an OSS control plane replacement called Headscale although I don’t know what’s involved in using it. That’s my backup plan for when Tailscale turns to shit.
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psion1369@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Check out Tailscale. They have 20 machine limit on the free plan. It runs on wireguard and is pretty secure.
avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
Rootiest@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I am big into self-hosting and would be happy to run my own Headscale server (I have actually) but imo it’s not worth the effort.
It can be done but it requires a lot of effort and consideration to ensure the relays and routing work for when your clients are in challenging NAT scenarios. And the user experience is not as good.
Instead what I do is continue to use Tailscale but I use the Tailnet Lock feature to give signing authority to my own specified devices so any new devices must be signed off by one of those other devices.
This effectively eliminates the last point of trust where you had to trust tailscale’s servers to manage authorization. The result is you don’t have to worry about trusting tailscale at all, the entire system is zero trust.
The catch is if you lose those devices and the recovery keys you lose the ability to trust or add to your tailnet and your only real option is to delete all the devices and start fresh.
They also have the option to send a recovery key to their servers so support can rescue you in that scenario, but I think if you are using this feature on the first place it’s because you don’t want to do that so I imagine most choose not to lol
uzay@infosec.pub 6 months ago
Setting up headscale isn’t too hard. But last time I tried, connecting the clients to it didn’t work properly (on mobile). Since they are using the regular tailscale clients, they don’t have much control over that.
avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
I gotta try. I’m planning to switch to it anyways. The Android client is open source so if something has to be changed it can be contributed or forked if the contribution isn’t accepted.
axzxc1236@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Install tailscale from F-Droid not Google Play. I had trouble setting up custom server with Google Play version.
jaykay@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
Wireguard itself works software far, thanks anyway :)
EarthBoundMisfit@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Tailscale is awesome, and super easy to set up. I think the free tier allows up to 100 devices now!
BastingChemina@slrpnk.net 6 months ago
Tailscale is amazing, I work with a small company and we were battling with our IT contractor to have a VPN running for remote work.
After a while of things not working as it should I just set up tailscaled because I was using it with my home server and it just works.
We are now on a paid plan and everyone else is using it when working remotely.
Rootiest@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Tailscale Free has a 100 device limit.
Virtually its only limitation against the paid plans is the user limit.
And network logging because it’s heavy on their servers.