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it's a proposed and planned feature by the looks of it : https://github.com/juanfont/headscale/issues/1651

comment by serf · 2026-08-13 · in Tracking down the 16-year-old WAL-reset SQLite bug

> Did you try Headscale? https://github.com/juanfont/headscale or netbird? Am aware of them but IIRC they are both unaudited which kind of brings us back to square one ? We would still end up running them at arms-length as we do with…

comment by traceroute66 · 2026-07-15 · in TS-2026-009: Insecure argument handling in Tailscale SSH permitted root access

Did you try Headscale? https://github.com/juanfont/headscale or netbird? The latter has been great for me.

comment by Bnjoroge · 2026-07-15 · in TS-2026-009: Insecure argument handling in Tailscale SSH permitted root access

…in replacement for the control server which isn't, and fully compatible with Tailscale clients: https://github.com/juanfont/headscale If you can be bothered running the headscale container, you generally don't need to pay for tailscale.…

comment by giobox · 2026-03-31 · in I traced my traffic through a home Tailscale exit node

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story by yashau · 2026-03-31 · 0 comments

Or Headscale, which has the blessing of Tailscale and contributions from some of their employees. https://github.com/juanfont/headscale

comment by jamesgeck0 · 2026-03-27 · in Hold on to Your Hardware

Headscale https://github.com/juanfont/headscale

comment by toomuchtodo · 2026-03-16 · in Starlink Mini as a failover

…is an open source alternative, I haven't read the code but it might be a good place to start: https://github.com/juanfont/headscale

comment by Computer0 · 2026-02-18 · in Tailscale Peer Relays is now generally available

…environment where you need one of the relays noted in this post. As for opensource alternatives: https://github.com/juanfont/headscale can replace tailscales initial coordination servers and https://netbird.io/ seemed to be a rapidly…

comment by vizzier · 2026-02-18 · in Tailscale Peer Relays is now generally available

…value-add from Tailscale over plain wireguard. I’ve been meaning to give this a try this winter: https://github.com/juanfont/headscale

comment by catlifeonmars · 2026-01-12 · in CLI agents make self-hosting on a home server easier and fun

Will this also work with Headscale [1]? [1] https://headscale.net/ | https://github.com/juanfont/headscale

comment by toomuchtodo · 2026-01-05 · in Show HN: Tailsnitch – A security auditor for Tailscale

…traffic from a public IP to a chosen node, SSH tied into the network authentication. There is also https://github.com/juanfont/headscale - which is a open source implementation of some of tailscale's server side stuff, compatible with the…

comment by gertrunde · 2025-12-24 · in Unifi Travel Router

…from perusing the headscale repo for the nth time. I really should deploy one of these days... https://github.com/juanfont/headscale

comment by seemaze · 2025-11-19 · in Tailscale Down

Headscale can help here, if you're willing to host it. https://github.com/juanfont/headscale

comment by rpdillon · 2025-11-15 · in Lawmakers want to ban VPNs

…plane such as Headscale. Instead of having Tailscale manage/coordinate all the nodes on tailnet. https://github.com/juanfont/headscale

comment by nirav72 · 2025-10-29 · in Tailscale Peer Relays

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story by Daviey · 2025-10-10 · 1 comment

The control plane of Tailscale can even be self-hosted via the Headscale project: https://github.com/juanfont/headscale As for backups, I like both https://github.com/restic/restic and https://github.com/kopia/kopia/ . Encryption is done…

comment by cls59 · 2025-10-09 · in Why Self-Host?

…Tailscale works so well out-of-the-box that I just used that instead of maintaining headscale. [1] https://github.com/juanfont/headscale

comment by moduspol · 2025-09-08 · in Setting up a home VPN server with WireGuard (2019)

…that doesn't spy on them!!) to know what even one of the keys in this config means? Really ? https://github.com/juanfont/headscale/blob/main/config-examp...

comment by Lammy · 2025-09-05 · in Farewell to Meshnet

headscale is an open source alternative to tailscale: https://github.com/juanfont/headscale

comment by homarp · 2025-06-29 · in Show HN: Octelium – FOSS Alternative to Teleport, Cloudflare, Tailscale, Ngrok

…is not true. We actually instruct all the clients to send no logs - since at least three years: https://github.com/juanfont/headscale/blame/main/hscontrol/t... . And also in the config example: https://github.com/juanfont/headscale/blob/mai…

comment by juanfont · 2025-06-03 · in A new generation of Tailscale access controls

head scale * https://headscale.net/stable/ https://github.com/juanfont/headscale

comment by GCUMstlyHarmls · 2025-05-19 · in Ditching Obsidian and building my own

https://github.com/juanfont/headscale

comment by flkenosad · 2025-04-08 · in Tailscale has raised $160M

…used Tailscale or its open-source brethren. Would this service be comparable to Headscale[0]? [0] https://github.com/juanfont/headscale

comment by arcanemachiner · 2025-04-08 · in Tailscale has raised $160M

…it's a nice idea, but the maintainer kradalby said it's out of scope when I brought it up in 2023: https://github.com/juanfont/headscale/issues/1370

comment by infogulch · 2025-04-03 · in An open source, self-hosted implementation of the Tailscale control server

c.f. https://github.com/juanfont/headscale/issues/2416

comment by themgt · 2025-04-03 · in An open source, self-hosted implementation of the Tailscale control server

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story by quyleanh · 2025-04-03 · 83 comments

I self host tailscale with headscale [0]. [0]: https://github.com/juanfont/headscale

comment by xarope · 2025-03-06 · in Tailscale is pretty useful

…If you really want to, you can run headscale and manage the coordination plane yourself as well. https://github.com/juanfont/headscale

comment by knowaveragejoe · 2025-03-05 · in Tailscale is pretty useful

…want to host the control server yourself, you can use this open source implementation of it at https://github.com/juanfont/headscale

comment by porridgeraisin · 2025-03-05 · in Tailscale is pretty useful

I believe you are referring to Headscale https://github.com/juanfont/headscale

comment by azthecx · 2025-01-05 · in A story on home server security

…bandwidth than that. There's headscale which allows setting up tailscale with a private server: https://github.com/juanfont/headscale/

comment by vladvasiliu · 2024-11-24 · in WireGuard: Beyond the most basic configuration

I think it does: https://sourcegraph.com/search?q=context:global+repo:github.... https://github.com/juanfont/headscale/pull/847 I’m not sure how well does it support it though, and I can’t open the docs for some reason right now.

comment by notpushkin · 2024-10-19 · in Ask HN: How did you replace Teleport?

I believe Tailscale has 2FA? Headscale is an open source implementation: https://github.com/juanfont/headscale

comment by dongcarl · 2024-10-16 · in Can't trust any VPN these days

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story by Cipher_Forge · 2024-10-03 · 0 comments

…very good point. Counterpoint is self-hosting Headscale which I mentioned in another comment here: https://github.com/juanfont/headscale Works with native Tailscale clients with a few config changes. I use it myself.

comment by jmprspret · 2024-07-27 · in The New Internet

…I serve docker containers to the tailnet, etc. headscale works really well and is worth a go. 1: https://github.com/juanfont/headscale

comment by jmprspret · 2024-07-27 · in The New Internet

…but a proprietary server to do this, but you can use the open source alternative headscale instead: https://github.com/juanfont/headscale

comment by kuschku · 2024-07-18 · in SSH has become our universal (Unix) external access protocol

Link to headscale https://github.com/juanfont/headscale

comment by j45 · 2024-03-30 · in About the Tailscale.com outage on March 7, 2024

…on HN also like that there's an open-source, self-hosted implementation of the control server. https://github.com/juanfont/headscale

comment by CharlesW · 2024-03-19 · in Waking My Computer from Afar

Headscale. https://github.com/juanfont/headscale

comment by latchkey · 2024-01-20 · in Tell HN: Russia has started blocking OpenVPN/WireGuard connections

It works with Headscale. https://github.com/juanfont/headscale

comment by SparkyMcUnicorn · 2023-12-14 · in Security Issue: Cloud Site Manager presented me your consoles, not mine

…by a tailscale employee. Wonder what's preventing them from making the official client open-source https://github.com/juanfont/headscale/commits/main/

comment by arthurk · 2023-12-08 · in Choose your own IP

You can host the independently implemented OSS version yourself: https://github.com/juanfont/headscale For me the headache of running my and maintaining my own server isn’t worth it (+ would still require a GCP/AWS account)

comment by vlovich123 · 2023-12-08 · in Choose your own IP

…thread on the UniFi Express [3] has me keeping an eye on it (no Wireguard support I believe). [1] https://github.com/juanfont/headscale [2] https://www.gl-inet.com/products/gl-mt3000/ [3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38504027

comment by toomuchtodo · 2023-12-04 · in A case for moving away from the cloud and embracing local storage solutions

Would be nice if https://github.com/juanfont/headscale can be managed by the Tailscale operator.

comment by smartbit · 2023-10-31 · in Tailscale Kubernetes Operator

Does it support headscale? https://github.com/juanfont/headscale

comment by Stem0037 · 2023-09-22 · in Tailscale Kubernetes Operator

…own drawbacks but from what I've seen it's worth it if you want more control over the network. [1]: https://github.com/juanfont/headscale

comment by hnarn · 2023-09-14 · in Bug in macOS 14 Sonoma prevents our app from working

You can run your own "head scale" control server and use their clients with it: https://github.com/juanfont/headscale Requires a lot more setup, but it is an option. I've been self-hosting headscale for some time and it is quite stable.

comment by jmprspret · 2023-09-08 · in Mullvad on Tailscale: Privately browse the web

…has been created to implement support Wireguard-only peers like Mullvad exit nodes in Headscale: https://github.com/juanfont/headscale/issues/1545 Headscale is a FOSS replacement for Tailscale's closed source coordination server. It is…

comment by commoner · 2023-09-07 · in Mullvad on Tailscale: Privately browse the web