An open source, self-hosted implementation of the Tailscale control server

Posted by quyleanh 1 day ago

An open source, self-hosted implementation of the Tailscale control server(github.com)

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snvzz 1 day ago|

Headscale has been serving me well for half a year now. It is great, to the point I have no idea how I lived without a tailscale network before.

It is packaged in openbsd, and that package is the server I am using.

udev4096 1 day ago||

How does headscale hold up when you're streaming video over jellyfin/plex?

scottyeager 1 day ago||

Do you mean when using it as a relay because p2p connectivity isn't possible? The preferred operating mode of Tailscale networks is for the bulk of traffic to go p2p, using various tricks for NAT and firewall traversal.

cassianoleal 1 day ago||

I’ve used it extensively to stream video across continents. No issues as long as you can get a P2P connection going. If it needs to go through a DERP server, then it may suffer but in my experience that’s pretty rare.

watusername 1 day ago||

> If it needs to go through a DERP server, then it may suffer but in my experience that’s pretty rare.

It's semi-frequent in my case, and it's painful every time it does that since Tailscale's official DERP servers are very slow (they seem to have some aggressive QoS). It would be nice if Tailscale supported using regular TURN servers so I could just use one of the hosted solutions.

cassianoleal 1 day ago||

You can self-host DERP if you're up for it.

LilBytes 1 day ago||

Yep and most of us are already using Subnet routers it's not technically much harder.

Finding a cloud or VPS provider with free or cheap bandwidth (egress and ingress) is likely the biggest issue.

pluto_modadic 1 day ago|

wonder if some of the bugs with self-managing it have been worked out :)