Tailscale Is Pretty Useful

It’s probably old news for most, but I’ve recently started using Tailscale and wanted to share my experience with it. I’ve heard of Tailscale many times before, but didn’t get the appeal until recently. That happened when I started running a simple server from my trusty old Raspberry Pi version 1. I know its local IP address and can ssh into it easily when I’m home, but when I’m outside, that’s not possible as it’s not exposed to the internet. For that reason, I have used DDNS in the past. The bad news is that it’s no longer possible thanks to a cursed thing called CGNAT. I don’t want to derail this post too much, but unfortunately port forwarding is no longer a thing that you can do. (And maybe it wasn’t such a good idea to expose your home server to the internet to begin with.) This reminded me of Tailscale, and I decided to give it a go. From what I could remember, it creates a virtual private network so you can access your devices anywhere with domain shorthands created by Tails ... Read full article.