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517 points ingve | 1 comments | 26 Jul 24 18:29 UTC | HN request time: 0.219s | source
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figassis ◴[26 Jul 24 23:11 UTC] No.41083146[source]▶
I love Tailscale, but this post gives me the creeps. The internet succeeded because it was built on standards and was completely free. With Tailscale, I get wireguard is open source and we have things like Headscale. But the whole everyone gets an IP, doesn’t it depend on Tailscale owning a massive ip address space? We can all wait until full ipv6 rollout, or we can depend on centralized ipv4, and servers and proprietary stuff. Maybe a bit hypocritical?
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1. linsomniac ◴[27 Jul 24 11:41 UTC] No.41085916[source]▶
>But the whole everyone gets an IP, doesn’t it depend on Tailscale owning a massive ip address space?

No, because Tailscale isn't "the Internet", it is a bunch of disconnected moats. The IP space needed by Tailscale only has to be as big as the largest moat. And you can only be connected to a single moat at a time.