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Which point(s) does zerotier fail?

• chosenken 4y ago
  Zerotier really doesn't fail any points, it's just no longer the "hot new thing" or an up and comming startup. I moved from Zerotier to Tailscale mainly for the fit and finish and Wireguard. Zerotier accomplished everything I wanted for my home network but was never "pretty." Tailscale is "pretty" and easy to use. MagicDNS makes accessing my devices easy as I don't have to set up my own DNS entries. I moved our entire company off of OpenVPN and AWS VPN to Tailscale. It may not be as cheap anymore, but their networking ACLs and integration with Google/Microsoft for login have made it SO EASY to onboard new people and hardware.
• cassianoleal 4y ago
  In my experience, and I used ZeroTier extensively before moving to Tailscale, it fails in a few points: * Performance was never quite great, especially when NAT was involved. This may have improved, but I haven't used it in a while. * NAT was hit-and-miss. It would usually work, but would not work frequently enough that I couldn't just count on it. * Not really easy for some use-cases. Main one for me, having a router both for acessing my LAN from outside, and as a gateway to my home Internet (akin to a VPN service like e.g. Mullvad or PIA). It's possible, and I did use it that way but it required some iptables-fu and it would fail some times - when it did, I would lose all my ability to connect back. This is especially bad if I'm traveling, since I don't have physical access to the router to fix the config. This never happened with Tailscale.