Tailscale support

What is Tailscale good for?

Tailscale is a VPN service that makes the devices and applications you own accessible anywhere in the world, securely and effortlessly. It enables encrypted point-to-point connections using the open source WireGuard protocol, which means only devices on your private network can communicate with each other.

Is Tailscale safe to use?

Tailscale is a secure network for WireGuard-encrypted traffic, requiring no configuration and no new firewall rules. It uses OAuth2 (SSO), OpenID, or SAML for authentication, and creates point-to-point, fully-encrypted connections between clients and servers.

Can Tailscale see your traffic?

End-to-end encrypted

Tailscale is built on top of WireGuard®, a modern VPN that provides end-to-end encryption between devices. Tailscale cannot read your traffic.

What are the requirements for Tailscale?

Tailscale requires a Single Sign-On (SSO) provider, so you'll need a Google, Microsoft, GitHub, Okta, OneLogin, or other supported SSO identity provider account to begin.

Is Tailscale a free VPN?

Completely free, took minutes. So I decided to reserve this morning to read up on @tailscale and get it set up on my various machines at home. The beauty of @Tailscale is that they enable people to make their own personal internet, for free in most cases.

Does Tailscale change my IP?

Once issued, your node's IP address will not change for as long as the node remains registered. Both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses are fixed.

Does Tailscale hide IP?

Can I hide my IP address with Tailscale? Tailscale doesn't do this by default, however you can set up an Exit Node to do this. When you enable an Exit Node, all the traffic sent out to the internet will go through that node.

Is Tailscale always free?

Personal will always be free

The Personal plan for using Tailscale for your personal use on your own devices, will always be free. We remember how hard it is to connect to our Pi-hole, or our Minecraft server, or our dogcam, and don't wish that on anyone. It's not going anywhere.

How is Tailscale different from traditional VPN?

Tailscale is a peer-to-peer mesh VPN which allows for direct connections between devices, whereas OpenVPN is a VPN with a concentrator that funnels traffic between devices. OpenVPN is an SSL VPN, which makes it flexible for use with many firewalls and NATs. OpenVPN can be run in pfSense, whereas Tailscale cannot.

What are the drawbacks of Tailscale?

Tailscale is not as privacy-friendly as other VPNs out there. Even though it allows you to create your own private network, it does require some communication with Tailscale's coordination server.

Is Tailscale peer-to-peer?

Tailscale routes traffic over the shortest path possible. In most cases, this is a direct, peer-to-peer connection. In cases where a direct connection cannot be established, devices will communicate by bouncing traffic off of one or more geographically distributed relay servers, called DERPs.

Is Tailscale private?

Tailscale features

All communications are end-to-end encrypted. Private encryption keys never leave their nodes and are not visible to Tailscale, improving data security and privacy.

Is Tailscale open source?

Tailscale is free for open source projects. With the Community on GitHub plan, you can use Tailscale for your project to access and share project resources, like a build tool or a test server. Any open source project with an OSI license can use this plan.

How do I connect to a device on Tailscale?

Getting started is as easy as downloading the Tailscale app on your devices and signing in. No setup, no config, Tailscale just works.

Is Tailscale cloud based?

Seamless data transfers between clouds

Mesh-based VPNs like Tailscale and service discovery layers are two ways you can enable multi-cloud data transfers.

Do any free VPNs exist?

Aside from Proton VPN, PrivadoVPN is as close as you'll get to an unlimited free VPN experience. Although PrivadoVPN does limit free users to 10GB of data per month, it won't cut you off once you exhaust that supply.

Does Tailscale hide IP?

What is headscale vs Tailscale?

Headscale is an open source alternative to the Tailscale coordination server and can be self-hosted for a single tailnet. Headscale is a re-implemented version of the Tailscale coordination server, developed independently and completely separate from Tailscale.

Is Tailscale private?

Tailscale features

All communications are end-to-end encrypted. Private encryption keys never leave their nodes and are not visible to Tailscale, improving data security and privacy.

Can I use Tailscale with another VPN?

In most cases, you can't use Tailscale alongside other VPNs. In theory, it should work. Tailscale only routes a small subset of your internet traffic (100. x.y.z addresses and subnets), by default, leaving the rest for other VPNs to manage.

What is OpenVPN vs Tailscale?

Can the government see my IP?

Government Entities and Law Enforcement

In the event that you are engaged in illegal activity, law enforcement or other government agencies can subpoena an ISP to provide the name and address of an online account holder to which a specific IP address is connected.

What is a Derp server?

A DERP server just blindly forwards already-encrypted traffic from one node to another. Tailscale runs DERP servers in many locations. As of September 2022, this list includes: Australia (Sydney) Brazil (São Paulo)

How does Tailscale Magic DNS work?

Full domain names can be cumbersome to type, so when you enable MagicDNS, Tailscale automatically adds search domains to your network. With these search domains you only need to type the machine name to access a device. In most situations, you'll want to use the machine name.

Is Tailscale always free?

Does Tailscale hide traffic?

By default, Tailscale acts as an overlay network: it only routes traffic between devices running Tailscale, but doesn't touch your public internet traffic, such as when you visit Google or Twitter.

Does Tailscale keep logs?

Each Tailscale agent in your distributed network streams its logs to a central log server (at log.tailscale.io ). This includes real-time events for open and close events for every inter-machine connection (TCP or UDP) on your network.