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A Smart Ethernet Switch for Earth

50 mentions on Hacker News by 33 people: 6 stories, 44 comments · first 2013-07-05 · latest 2026-02-25

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  1. ▲ 2
    ZeroTier Licensing Changes (2025)
    story by w3ll_w3ll_w3ll · 2026-02-25 · 0 comments
  2. ….com/security#tailscale-is-written-in-go which might explain the larger sizes. A cursory look through https://github.com/zerotier/ZeroTierOne shows more C++ and some Rust. Not sure how much static linking is involved here.
    comment by avtar · 2024-07-03 · in The Cheapest NAS
  3. …off of protocols, as long as their code is open source like https://github.com/firezone/firezone or https://github.com/zerotier/ZeroTierOne Tailscale seems great now, but its risky to trust their closed source for this type of service.
    comment by mikestaub · 2022-11-20 · in Tailscale Funnel
  4. "Is there a way to totally bypass ZeroTier's servers?" - https://github.com/zerotier/ZeroTierOne/issues/610 Bug was "[closed] since it's already on the road map" (???) for 1.4, but after 1.4 release it is still unclear if it is even…
    comment by cyounkins · 2022-04-06 · in Tailscale’s human-scale networks are still controlled by Google and Microsoft
  5. https://github.com/zerotier/ZeroTierOne/issues/1143
    comment by password4321 · 2022-02-10 · in SSH into private machines from anywhere using Cloudflare Tunnel
  6. …That said, there is no blog post from June and there also was no release arouns that time: https://github.com/zerotier/ZeroTierOne/releases
    comment by m4lvin · 2021-09-21 · in Incident Response to September 20th 2021
  7. …implementation and is the same one we use to power our own hosted services at my.zerotier.com. [0]: https://github.com/zerotier/ZeroTierOne/tree/master/controll...
    comment by jbboehr · 2021-09-06 · in ZeroTier – Global Area Networking
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    ZeroTier – Global Area Networking
    story by aphrax · 2021-09-05 · 36 comments
  9. https://zerotier.com / https://github.com/zerotier/ZeroTierOne
    comment by ukd1 · 2021-06-29 · in Wiretrustee: WireGuard-Based Mesh Network
  10. …that zerotier is still source available (with 2025 - 5 years? Transition to apace Foss license): https://github.com/zerotier/ZeroTierOne/blob/master/LICENSE.... So, AFAIK you can self-host, audit and patch. (lots of great discussion on…
    comment by e12e · 2021-06-14 · in Taildrop was kind of easy
  11. ZeroTier isn't open source / free software, it's only source-available. https://github.com/zerotier/ZeroTierOne/blob/master/LICENSE.... I'm personally really tired of fake open source projects like this.
    comment by sneak · 2021-06-13 · in Taildrop was kind of easy
  12. …ZeroTier controllers, which are the things that control network access. See the controller subfolder of github.com/zerotier/ZeroTierOne. Roots in ZeroTier are harder to self host right now (it’s getting easier in the future) but they are…
    comment by api · 2021-06-13 · in Taildrop was kind of easy
  13. …> The Business Source License (this document, or the "License") is not an Open Source license. https://github.com/zerotier/ZeroTierOne/blob/a7f652781faedfb...
    comment by nh2 · 2021-04-03 · in VPNCloud: Open-source peer-to-peer VPN written in rust
  14. …was from an old blog post from 2014 [1] but they seems to have added support since then: https://github.com/zerotier/ZeroTierOne/commit/bf193dd3 . Edited my post. [1] https://www.zerotier.com/2014/08/25/the-state-of-nat-travers...
    comment by dividuum · 2021-04-03 · in VPNCloud: Open-source peer-to-peer VPN written in rust
  15. As an example, here's ZeroTier moving from GPLv3 to BSL: https://github.com/zerotier/ZeroTierOne/commit/52a166a71#dif...
    comment by ignoramous · 2021-01-26 · in PfSense Is Closed Source
  16. https://github.com/zerotier/ZeroTierOne
    comment by _hyn3 · 2020-12-17 · in WireGuard Bounce Server Setup
  17. …under the Open Source Definition [1], but they claim it meets "most" of the OSI criteria. 0: https://github.com/zerotier/ZeroTierOne/blob/master/LICENSE.... 1: https://mariadb.com/bsl-faq-adopting/#osl
    comment by evil-olive · 2020-12-16 · in WireGuard Bounce Server Setup
  18. …but it's sketchy. [1]: https://github.com/freepn/fpnd/blob/eda6536754d35224ca773ba9... [2]: https://github.com/zerotier/ZeroTierOne [3]: https://github.com/freepn/fpnd/blob/eda6536754d35224ca773ba9... [5]:…
    comment by woodruffw · 2020-10-16 · in FreePN: Open-source peer-to-peer VPN service
  19. …at least not the current version. It's under their modified version of the Business Source License: https://github.com/zerotier/ZeroTierOne/blob/master/LICENSE.... This is, IMO, much better than the typical proprietary license, but it's…
    comment by ryukafalz · 2020-03-23 · in Remembering the LAN
  20. MAC as in 48-bit Ethernet addresses. https://github.com/zerotier/ZeroTierOne/blob/master/node/MAC... There's a tiny chance of a collision, but for it to be meaningful you'd have to have a virtual LAN with millions of devices on it.
    comment by api · 2020-03-03 · in WireGuard Gives Linux a Faster, More Secure VPN
  21. …You can run your own controller as well. The code to do so is in every instance of ZeroTier. https://github.com/zerotier/ZeroTierOne/tree/master/controll...
    comment by grumblez · 2020-03-02 · in WireGuard Gives Linux a Faster, More Secure VPN
  22. Oh, indeed. I wasn't aware of that: https://github.com/zerotier/ZeroTierOne/blob/master/LICENSE.... > Business Source License 1.1 > License text copyright (c) 2017 MariaDB Corporation Ab, All Rights Reserved. > "Business Source License" is…
    comment by e12e · 2019-11-19 · in Nebula, Slack's Open Source Global Overlay Network
  23. …fewer features, but otherwise that's what it looks like to me ZeroTier's pretty damn cool, IMO: https://github.com/zerotier/ZeroTierOne
    comment by DuskStar · 2019-11-13 · in Decentralized VPN Written in Go
  24. …institution, and evaluation for uses that require commercial licensing. I was able to find this: https://github.com/zerotier/ZeroTierOne
    comment by politelemon · 2019-11-02 · in Setting up a home VPN server with WireGuard
  25. …and it restricts Government uses. It seems like a good thing, but also is good to know. [1]: https://github.com/zerotier/ZeroTierOne/blob/master/LICENSE....
    comment by zimbatm · 2019-09-25 · in ZeroTier 2.0 Status
  26. ▲ 3
    ZeroTier - A Planetary Ethernet Switch
    story by mikro2nd · 2018-12-06 · 0 comments
  27. No RFC-type document yet but quite a bit of commenting here: https://github.com/zerotier/ZeroTierOne/blob/master/node/Pac... There is also a higher-level description of the entire system here: https://www.zerotier.com/manual.shtml ZeroTier…
    comment by api · 2018-05-17 · in MacOS command line version of the WireGuard VPN is now available for testing
  28. …Connect (it has "Send SMS from desktop" feature) which works between desktops running K too. [1] https://github.com/zerotier/ZeroTierOne [2] https://github.com/ntop/n2n
    comment by chupasaurus · 2018-05-11 · in Librem 5 design report
  29. …solves most of my issues. [1] https://wiki.x2go.org/doku.php [2] http://winswitch.org/ [3] https://github.com/zerotier/ZeroTierOne
    comment by leni536 · 2017-10-03 · in Guacamole – A clientless remote desktop gateway
  30. Yup. It's also open source: https://github.com/zerotier/ZeroTierOne
    comment by jah6q · 2017-08-11 · in The world in which IPv6 was a good design
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    ZeroTier – A Smart Ethernet Switch for Earth
    story by maxt · 2016-12-30 · 0 comments
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    ZeroTierOne: A Smart Ethernet Switch for Earth
    story by BuuQu9hu · 2016-11-30 · 3 comments
  33. …it's still very useful for this and the WAN use case is not going away. https://www.zerotier.com/ https://github.com/zerotier/ZeroTierOne https://github.com/zerotier/ZeroTierSDK The difference between something like ZeroTier and Tor is a…
    comment by api · 2016-08-05 · in Can NAT traversal be Tor's killer feature? (2014)
  34. …binary can be compiled with a special option to extend the build-in REST API for that. See: https://github.com/zerotier/ZeroTierOne/tree/master/service
    comment by raarts · 2016-05-15 · in ZeroTier - Simple Software Defined Networking
  35. Example: https://github.com/zerotier/ZeroTierOne/blob/14264c2d6f7d20b...
    comment by api · 2015-11-17 · in Issue 87 – google-compute-engine – UDP Packet Fragments cannot be reassembled
  36. Suitable (and open source) replacement: https://github.com/zerotier/ZeroTierOne https://www.zerotier.com/ Also does a lot of other things, and is evolving into a full-fledged SDN layer. If you don't want to use the pretty GUI they give you…
    comment by api · 2015-10-09 · in LogMeIn acquires Lastpass
  37. https://github.com/zerotier/ZeroTierOne Not based around IPv6 specifically now, but we have interesting long-term IPv6 plans. :)
    comment by api · 2015-07-06 · in IPv6 Exhaustion Counter
  38. …it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7599091 There seems to be this similar project as well: https://github.com/zerotier/ZeroTierOne
    comment by higherpurpose · 2015-01-12 · in Be your own VPN provider with OpenBSD
  39. Another one for your list: https://github.com/zerotier/ZeroTierOne Docker integration by a third party user: https://github.com/davide/docker-zerotier ZeroTier isn't Docker-specific, but people are using it there. (Disclosure: I wrote it.)…
    comment by api · 2014-11-04 · in WeaveDNS – A distributed DNS service for a weave network
  40. (I'm the author/founder.) Old one did distributed breadth-first graph exploration: https://github.com/zerotier/ZeroTierOne/wiki/OLD-Multicast-A... It was nifty and cool and worked pretty well for small to mid tier stuff, but biggest…
    comment by api · 2014-10-30 · in ZeroTier One 1.0.0: Better, Faster, Cheaper
  41. by netconf-master do you mean https://github.com/zerotier/ZeroTierOne/tree/master/netconf-... ?
    comment by Rhapso · 2014-08-28 · in ZeroTier: Network Virtualization Everywhere
  42. …how to reconfigure the clients to serve up those super nodes instead of the ZT-provided ones. [1]: https://github.com/zerotier/ZeroTierOne
    comment by zrail · 2014-08-28 · in ZeroTier: Network Virtualization Everywhere
  43. Curve25519, ed25519, and Salsa20 in 12-round mode: https://github.com/zerotier/ZeroTierOne/wiki/ZeroTier-One-Se...
    comment by zrail · 2014-08-28 · in ZeroTier: Network Virtualization Everywhere
  44. …and almost instant nat traversal. They also bridge sparse multicast groups as described here. https://github.com/zerotier/ZeroTierOne/wiki/Multicast-Algor... Both Skype and Spotify have backed away from p2p. In Skype's case I suspect…
    comment by api · 2014-08-02 · in Decentralization: I Want to Believe
  45. Good point. I do have some docs up, like this: https://github.com/zerotier/ZeroTierOne/wiki/Multicast-Algor... ... but no RFC-level documentation yet.
    comment by api · 2014-07-28 · in Creating a Provider-Agnostic Private Backplane Network in the Cloud
  46. …which is a good sign. Everything except the web admin panel UI is open source. Here's the repo: https://github.com/zerotier/ZeroTierOne
    comment by api · 2014-07-15 · in Create Virtual LANs that Work Everywhere
  47. …incomplete beginning to a technical FAQ here that answers some of these questions in more detail: https://github.com/zerotier/ZeroTierOne/wiki/Technical-FAQ
    comment by api · 2014-04-18 · in SigmaVPN: Stateless OpenVPN Replacement Using NaCl Encryption Library
  48. …panel for Mac and Windows. There's a clean installer with baked-in auto-update functionality. https://github.com/zerotier/ZeroTierOne /full disclosure: I wrote this.
    comment by api · 2014-04-16 · in SigmaVPN: Stateless OpenVPN Replacement Using NaCl Encryption Library
  49. I released something huge a while back: https://github.com/zerotier/ZeroTierOne I got some good feedback, but more than my fair share of "this is the stupidest fucking idea I've ever heard of" and such. Luckily I know to ignore pretty much…
    comment by api · 2013-10-06 · in Time to hand over the reins before Capistrano costs me my youth?
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    Show HN: ZeroTier One creates flat virtual Ethernet networks of unlimited size
    story by api · 2013-07-05 · 1 comment