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An open source, self-hosted implementation of the Tailscale control server

124 mentions on Hacker News by 103 people: 12 stories, 112 comments · first 2020-07-05 · latest 2026-08-13

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  1. …hosted coordination server backend. There is "headscale", where you can self-host the backend. https://github.com/juanfont/headscale
  2. Relevant: Headscale, a FOSS implementation of the Tailscale control server - GitHub: https://github.com/juanfont/headscale - HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28572013 The Tailscale mobile apps aren't currently compatible with…
    comment by commoner · 2021-10-18 · in Why not “Why not WireGuard?” (2020)
  3. …(and open source) - there is HeadScale. It lets you run your own coordination server locally. https://github.com/juanfont/headscale
  4. Self-hosting is possible by adding headscale too: https://github.com/juanfont/headscale It doesn't have all the features of tailscale hosted server, but they seem to be actively working the list of missing features.
  5. …relay fallbacks for when UDP is blocked or NAT traversal fails. Or you can self-host Tailscale with https://github.com/juanfont/headscale if you want.
    comment by bradfitz · 2021-09-17 · in Tailscale free for open source projects
  6. …public keys into anyone’s network. I don’t know if the situation is any different in ZeroTier. https://github.com/juanfont/headscale is a (not yet complete) free software control server for Tailscale if you want to self-host.
    comment by gnufx · 2021-09-05 · in ZeroTier – Global Area Networking
  7. https://github.com/juanfont/headscale replaces the tailscale control panel with something open source and self-hosted. However, it doesn't have all the features of the official tailscale control panel.
    comment by ItalyPaleAle · 2021-06-29 · in Wiretrustee: WireGuard-Based Mesh Network
  8. Anyone have a comparison to headscale (self-host/oss tailscale)? https://github.com/juanfont/headscale I suppose the turn server support for nat hole punching is the biggest difference?
  9. Other interesting solutions in this space: - https://tailscale.com/ - https://github.com/juanfont/headscale - https://github.com/tonarino/innernet - https://github.com/slackhq/nebula Something I'm missing?
  10. https://github.com/juanfont/headscale
    comment by Nekit1234007 · 2021-06-13 · in Taildrop was kind of easy
  11. >There’s an open source project called headscale This? https://github.com/juanfont/headscale
    comment by inigojonesguy · 2021-06-13 · in Taildrop was kind of easy
  12. Hi, Tailscale person here. If you haven't seen it, an open source implementation of the server: https://github.com/juanfont/headscale . The Linux & Android clients are fully open source. The Mac GUI is closed, but the "Linux" client runs…