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I literally just spent some time this weekend trying to get it working with a dnsresolver locally routing my home network there and then out to nextdns, all thr

I literally just spent some time this weekend trying to get it working with a dnsresolver locally routing my home network there and then out to nextdns, all through tailscale. The issue really came down to something I didn't bother diagnosing, and very well could've been my router. But. This just solved all those issues. Threw my nextdns address into tailscale and away i go. I swear every single time I run into some modern inconvenience of the web Tailscale (by mission statement) is there to solve it.

sph 4y ago
I had the same issue with NextDNS, and I also wanted to make Mullvad work with Tailscale. It does weird routing stuff on Linux so I had to write a custom script to make both VPNs work at the same time, and on iOS they're not compatible at all. Then I wondered why I needed NextDNS at all, so I just replaced everything with pi-hole and zerotier (tailscale but plays better with custom networks. It's a simple interface with an IP address. ) Tailscale is cool and shiny, but it's one of those automagic software that don't leave much space for customisation and hacking. I guess I'm not the intended audience.
- sph 4y ago
  EDIT: nevermind, ZeroTier has its own issues, so I went back to Tailscale.
- nullfield 4y ago
  Regardless of whether or not you use them, their article on how they do NAT traversal is pretty good: https://tailscale.com/blog/how-nat-traversal-works/ https://tailscale.com/blog/how-nat-traversal-works/
- 411111111111111 4y ago
  > zerotier (tailscale but plays better with custom networks. It's a simple interface with an IP address. ) That's like saying "it's like Cisco Anyconnect, except with less GUI applications" They're both VPNs, that's basically all they've got in common. Tailscale builds upon wireguard and creates a pretty polished interface for it. Zerotier has their own VPN technology and also provides hardware appliances for VPN termination
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- alexeiz 4y ago
  How does zerotier performance compare to tailscale? Throughput and CPU usage-wise?

sph 4y ago

I had the same issue with NextDNS, and I also wanted to make Mullvad work with Tailscale. It does weird routing stuff on Linux so I had to write a custom script to make both VPNs work at the same time, and on iOS they're not compatible at all. Then I wondered why I needed NextDNS at all, so I just replaced everything with pi-hole and zerotier (tailscale but plays better with custom networks. It's a simple interface with an IP address. ) Tailscale is cool and shiny, but it's one of those automagic software that don't leave much space for customisation and hacking. I guess I'm not the intended audience.

sph 4y ago
EDIT: nevermind, ZeroTier has its own issues, so I went back to Tailscale.
nullfield 4y ago
Regardless of whether or not you use them, their article on how they do NAT traversal is pretty good: https://tailscale.com/blog/how-nat-traversal-works/ https://tailscale.com/blog/how-nat-traversal-works/
411111111111111 4y ago
> zerotier (tailscale but plays better with custom networks. It's a simple interface with an IP address. ) That's like saying "it's like Cisco Anyconnect, except with less GUI applications" They're both VPNs, that's basically all they've got in common. Tailscale builds upon wireguard and creates a pretty polished interface for it. Zerotier has their own VPN technology and also provides hardware appliances for VPN termination
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alexeiz 4y ago
How does zerotier performance compare to tailscale? Throughput and CPU usage-wise?