Tailscale raises $100M

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854 points gmemstr | 1 comments | 04 May 22 13:17 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source

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boesboes ◴[04 May 22 13:43 UTC] No.31260274[source]▶

For anyone else who wonders wtf tailscale is:

> Tailscale is a VPN service that makes the devices and applications you own accessible anywhere in the world, securely and effortlessly. It enables encrypted point-to-point connections using the open source WireGuard protocol, which means only devices on your private network can communicate with each other.

It seems to take care of key distribution, nat-traversal, authentication etc etc

Neat! No sure how that is 'fixing internet' exactly, but really cool anyway

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yrro ◴[04 May 22 13:55 UTC] No.31260446[source]▶

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Tailscale is one of the ways you can restore the end-to-end connectivity principle that IP introduced and that NAT destroyed.

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legalcorrection ◴[04 May 22 13:59 UTC] No.31260512[source]▶

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This is kind of overstated. Even if everyone went IPv6 and gave every device a public IP address, pretty much every network would have a firewall that behaved just like NAT.

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1. zinekeller ◴[04 May 22 14:12 UTC] No.31260693[source]▶

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This fact must be bundled everywhere someone mentioned "IPv6 will allow direct connectivity again". While NAT isn't a fully-functional firewall, it did do things that a firewall in a router would do. What equipment have proper IPv6 firewalls? Routers, that's who.

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