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Friendly reminder that Tailscale is VC-funded and driving towards IPO (betakit.com)
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Corporate VPN startup Tailscale secures $230 million CAD Series C on back of “surprising” growth

Pennarun confirmed the company had been approached by potential acquirers, but told BetaKit that the company intends to grow as a private company and work towards an initial public offering (IPO).

“Tailscale intends to remain independent and we are on a likely IPO track, although any IPO is several years out,” Pennarun said. “Meanwhile, we have an extremely efficient business model, rapid revenue acceleration, and a long runway that allows us to become profitable when needed, which means we can weather all kinds of economic storms.”

Keep that in mind as you ponder whether and when to switch to self-hosting Headscale.

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[–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Do you pay for a domain? They likely provide dynamic DNS (DNS). If you're lucky, they have an API for it, instead of an app, and you can configure a cronjob on your home server to run every 1-5 minutes (or more often, if your IP is super unstable!).

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Yeah I can always do that, but putting stuff behind something like Tailscale is (or atleast feels) more secure than making my IP known to the public. I have a DMZ setup though so it should be fine.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Your "IP address" is already public. That's why an IPv4 address is assigned to you as a "public IP address" and you NAT to a private space. When using IPv6, everything is public.

    The key is to secure everything with access restrictions.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Well yes I know, but there is a difference between using a domain bound to me as a person and a random string of numbers that changes every 5 minutes

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Chances are you've had the same public IP for a long time. Mine hasn't changed in 2 years.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago*

    @chronicledmonocle @Vinstaal0 I used to work for a dial-up ISP. Every IP is registered to an account, if you're going through your ISP (as opposed to, say, coffee shop or hotel wifi). Though the people who have the information are different (ICANN/registrar vs your internet provider), there's no anonymity in your home IP address even with CGNAT.

    As far as your domain, you should have privacy protection enabled so people can't find your personal info via whois.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    That was the case when I lived with my parents, but now it changes every 5 minutes sadly.

    So I had to shut down my Minecraft server etc for now because I am on a 5G modem which makes it really annoying to open up ports and point a domain to your IP

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