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Tailscale raises $100M

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adtac ◴[] No.31261922[source]
>To put the market in perspective, there are VPNs that only work if [...] UDP isn’t blocked

isn't that true with WireGuard/Tailscale too?

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xena ◴[] No.31262670[source]
Tailscale employee here. Tailscale has a fallback that does connections to a relay server called DERP. DERP works over HTTPS, so if you can't access the outside world via HTTPS then you have much bigger problems than Tailscale not working.
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anderspitman ◴[] No.31266447[source]
Is DERP raw HTTP or based on WebSockets?
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1. ignoramous ◴[] No.31268362[source]
derp seems to be its own protocol.

tailscale seems to prefer websocket transport for derp frames: https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale/blob/505f844/derp/der...