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655 points louis-paul | 1 comments | 08 Apr 25 10:36 UTC | HN request time: 0.234s | source
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mrbonner ◴[08 Apr 25 17:30 UTC] No.43624307[source]▶
Does anybody encounter issues with DNS after installing tailscale with it's MagicDNS enabled? It drives me nuts because my entire network just stops working. I removed tailscale but still won't be able to connect to my Ubuntu server.
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1. fidotron ◴[08 Apr 25 17:54 UTC] No.43624597[source]▶
Yeah, I honestly couldn't get Tailscale to work reliably at all. DNS, routing, firewalls etc. My overall impression was it will work if either you go for it on your entire local subnet, or you have a very simple local network topology. Having local nodes inexplicably talking to each other via a cloud relay basically all the time just isn't acceptable. (And webrtc could always find the local candidates when doing ICE, so it's not that).

It's interesting because they have clearly demonstrated a demand for such a thing, but the "just works" pitch is a fantasy, at least today.