Post #1944578
2026-04-27 11:50 UTC
@menelion @jcsteh @tailscale It lets you access servers/devices on different networks using a private encrypted link. So for example if you had Tailscale running on your laptop and on a NAS on your home network, you could interact with files on your NAS from a coffee shop network over a managed encrypted connection. You can do more with it obviously but that is my simple intro.
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@jcsteh@aus.social 2026-04-27 11:56
@tailscale @andrew @menelion Further to that, rather than a central server through which all trafic flows as would be the case if you ran a VPN server on a router, it negotiates the most direct connection to each node behind the scenes. That means you can just leave it running. Each node has a stable address on your private network, so it's always the same IP address regardless of whether you're at home, at a coffee shop, in a different country, etc.