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Tailscale raises $100M

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854 points gmemstr | 2 comments | 04 May 22 13:17 UTC | HN request time: 0.419s | source
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hu3 ◴[04 May 22 13:51 UTC] No.31260395[source]▶
They are open source too: https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale

edit: Only the client is open source. See clarification below.

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cassianoleal ◴[04 May 22 13:58 UTC] No.31260490[source]▶
The clients are. The control server, which is the bit that Tailscale host, is not.

There is an open source alternative called headscale [0]. The main downside is that you'll need to run it.

The closed source centralised control server has other potential issues though, and it ends up being up to the user to decide what's the right balance of security vs convenience.

[0] https://github.com/juanfont/headscale

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1. gowld ◴[04 May 22 13:59 UTC] No.31260505[source]▶
To be clear, headscale is an alternative to the control server, compatible with Tailscale clients.
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2. cassianoleal ◴[04 May 22 14:28 UTC] No.31260950[source]▶
Yes, sorry if my phrasing was confusing. Thanks for clarifying.