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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/2728889

From the article:

Since Tailscale was founded in 2019, customers have been forced to choose between either Tailscale or Mullvad without the ability for them to co-exist.
Today we announce a partnership with Tailscale that allows you to use both in conjunction through the Tailscale app. This functionality is not available through the Mullvad VPN app. This partnership allows customers of Tailscale to make use of our WireGuard VPN servers as “exit nodes”. This means that whilst connected to Tailscale, you can access your devices across Tailscale’s mesh network, whilst still connecting outbound through Mullvad VPN WireGuard servers in any location.

Announcement also on Tailscale blog.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Well that's awesome news.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

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CSAM Child Sexual Abuse Material
DNS Domain Name Service/System
IP Internet Protocol
NAS Network-Attached Storage
Plex Brand of media server package
SSH Secure Shell for remote terminal access
VPN Virtual Private Network
VPS Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting)

8 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 11 acronyms.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have the utmost respect and appreciation for mullvad but I don't need a vpn without port forwarding so I cancelled my sub. They are still objectively the vest vpn, this is the only sticking point.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What does port forwarding gain you on a VPN? Sorry if the question is ignorant

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You need it for file sharing apps like BitTorrent or Soulseek, if you don't want to be seen as a leech, and/or you want to use private trackers where you need to maintain a good ratio. :)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Then you can just use a seed box on top of your downloading

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Why would you use a seedbox if you have a home server? The home server can be the seedbox. A lot of homelabbers would have a good enough connection for it.

Edit: Using a VPN with port forwarding, of course.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

If anyone wants to achieve something similar without using Tailscale or with alternative VPN providers, the setup outlined in this LSIO guide is pretty neat: https://www.linuxserver.io/blog/advanced-wireguard-container-routing

Edit: Don't be intimidated by the word "advanced". I struggled with this a bit at first (was also adapting it to use at home instead of on a VPS that's tunneling to home) but I got it working eventually and learned a lot in the process. Willing to assist folks who want to set it up.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

You can also achieve this with any VPN by using two Docker containers:

  1. Gluetun: https://github.com/qdm12/gluetun
  2. Tailscale: https://tailscale.com/kb/1282/docker/

Set Gluetun up to connect to your VPN (they support a huge number of providers) and then set the Tailscale container to use the Gluetun's network. Then, use that Tailscale container as your exit node.

You can also combine this with a self-hosted Headscale (https://github.com/juanfont/headscale) instance.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The issue with Tailscale is that in phone it uses the VPN and you are not able to a vpn or a Adblock service like Adguard. But now I believe it will be interesting to have a exit node with Mullvad vpn to block all shit on all devices inside the tailscale nerwork . Another good thing of tailscale it makes services like jellyfin, plex and syncthing easier.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I use tailscale with next dns, it works great. I don't use magic DNS, however, but it's a trade off I'm okay with for the benefit of blocking at the edge

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Sound interesting. Can you tell me how do you configure it and if you did it in both android and iOS? Thank you