An introduction to the Windows Filtering Platform, and how to make your software program the Windows firewall. | Continue reading
Tailscale is a zero config VPN for building secure networks. Install on any device in minutes. Remote access from any network or physical location. | Continue reading
Today, we’re announcing a new pricing model for Tailscale that makes it less expensive for everyone, and easier to scale from a small test deployment to something your whole friend group, startup, or organization can use. | Continue reading
Taildrop was the first test of an experimental p2p app discovery layer in Tailscale. Let us talk about why it was so easy to build, and where we go from here. | Continue reading
A lot of people use Tailscale with Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices. In an effort to make this technology more accessible we’re publishing this transcript of a conversation about the basics of Network Attached Storage between our past co-op student Naman Sood, and our Archm … | Continue reading
Taildrop is a feature that makes it easy to send files between your personal devices on a Tailscale network. Unlike cloud-based file transfer services, Taildrop’s peer-to-peer design makes it well-suited for lots of kinds of files you might want to send. | Continue reading
Automating deployment of a web server using GitHub Actions should be DevOps 101, so as a university student, it is the perfect time for me to be learning this. But what if, for security reasons, the server is accessible only over Tailscale? | Continue reading
The latest version of Tailscale is available today! Learn how to update or read the full release notes on Github. This release contains a lot of general improvements, along with support for some upcoming feature previews. | Continue reading
Taildrop is a feature that makes it easy to send files between your personal devices on a Tailscale network. | Continue reading
A brief history of DNS on Linux systems and what steps we are taking to ensure it is configured consistently in Tailscale 1.8. | Continue reading
Note Exit nodes are a feature available in Tailscale v1.6 or greater . Tailscale v1.6 will be released in mid-March... | Continue reading
The Go standard library's net.IP type is problematic for a number of reasons. We wrote a new one. | Continue reading
An intriguing tale of rotating ssh keys. | Continue reading
What is a microservice? When are microservices a good idea? Lately, I get people asking me when microservices are a good idea. In systems design explains the world, I talked about big-picture issues like second system effect, innovator's dilemmas, and more. Can systems design ans … | Continue reading
How to provision a new NixOS machine on Digital Ocean with nixos-infect andautomatically connect it to your Tailscale network, then use that server toset up a fully private Minecraft world. | Continue reading
When I first joined Tailscale, I was horrified to learn that "thedatabase" was a single JSON file that was rewritten on anychange. We migrated to something better. | Continue reading
Big news today! We’ve raised US$12 million in Series A funding led by Accel, with participation from Heavybit and Uncork Capital. The new funding follows the seed round we announced just a few months ago in April, and will allow us to build out our team and product at a faster pa … | Continue reading
In this post, we'll talk about how to establish a peer-to-peer connection between two machines, in spite of all the obstacles in the way. | Continue reading
Excalidraw is a whiteboard tool that lets you easily sketch diagrams that have a hand-drawn feel to them. - Excalidraw | Continue reading
An article by Michael Tremer titled Why notWireGuard is sometimesshared in VPN discussions. Unfortunately that article contains severalmisconceptions and some out-of-date information that deserves to beaddressed.Let’s go through his arguments section by section. | Continue reading
I used to tolerate and expect complexity. Working on Go the past 10 years has changed my perspective, though. I now value simplicity above almost all else and tolerate complexity only when it’s well isolated, well documented, well tested, and necessary to make things simpler over … | Continue reading
Just over a year ago, we founded Tailscale with a common sense of nostalgia for the “good old days” of LANs. In our collective opinion (then and now) networking and cloud infrastructure has become too complicated. Attempts to increase team connectivity and migrate towards remote … | Continue reading
I started programming in the 1990s living above my parent's medical practice. We had 15 PCs for the business, and one for me. The standard OS was MS-DOS.The network started off using IPX over coax to a Novell Netware server, the fanciest software we ever owned. IPX was so much ea … | Continue reading
People often ask us for an overview of how Tailscale works. We’ve beenputting off answering that, because we kept changing it!But now things have started to settle down.Let’s go through the entire Tailscale system from bottom to top, the sameway we built it (but skipping some zig … | Continue reading
As a “fully remote work” company, we had to make some choices about thetechnologies we use to work together and stay in touch.We decided early on — about the time we realized all three cofounderslive in different cities — that we were going to go all-in on remote work,at least fo … | Continue reading
Tailscale provides software and services that help you connect your business to cloud services smoothly, safely, and securely. | Continue reading