May Tailscale newsletter
This is a re-publishing of our monthly newsletter sent to subscribers earlier this month. Sign up to receive future email newsletters.A month ago, we announced Tailscale’s general availability. Since then, we’ve been hard at work improving Tailscale. Today, were writing with some updates.
We recently released a new minor version of our client apps. This new version fixes various connectivity issu
es and squashes some annoying platform-specific bugs. Thanks to everyone who wrote in to report these issues. A few highlights from the complete changelog on Github:
We now prefer IPv6 over IPv4 when sending encrypted packets between nodes. Note: this does not yet make IPv6 available inside the Tailscale network. Switching between different networks is now smoother than ever, particularly between Wi-Fi and LTE, or when moving a sleeping laptop between different networks. Windows no longer resets active connections when new nodes get added to the network. We’ve adjusted MTU settings to avoid packet loss for users on Google Cloud or DSL.
This is a minor release, so we recommend everyone update to the latest version. You can find update instructions here. SAP Identity and improved Okta support We now welcome teams to use SAP Identity or Okta to authenticate to their Tailscale network. Contact us to enable it for your team. (Okta users can get a head start by following our Okta setup guide.) New relay server: Sydney Our relay servers route encrypted traffic when devices can’t connect directly to each other. Having a closer relay server means reduced latency on troublesome networks. The previous closest nodes for our friends in Oceania were Singapore or San Francisco, so the performance increase should be quite noticeable. (In unrelated news, one of our developers is currently in Australia. Totally unrelated.) Choosing a VPN for your team We’ve received a lot of questions about how Tailscale and WireGuard® differ from other VPN options. Since most online guides only cover personal VPNs, weve published our VPN Reviewer’s Guide a detailed list of questions to ask when searching for a VPN for your team. Its a big read, but if youre evaluating several options, we hope it helps you make an informed choice. Contributions of note We wanted to acknowledge some recent contributions made within the Tailscale community:
@mrkaran wrote an article detailing how he uses Tailscale to connect a VPS to a local Raspberry Pi Kubernetes cluster. His post walks through triaging blocked UDP packets, multiple competing overlay networks, and some DNS fiddling to make it all work. @nirev created an open-source package builder for Synology NASs. It requires a manual install, but it’s a great option for NAS users looking to connect over Tailscale today.
Thanks for the great work @mrkaran and @nirev! 🎉 Coming soon: Android beta Our Android app is (by far) our most requested feature, and were happy to announce we have a working prototype. Well be inviting users to begin beta testing within the next week or so. If youd like to participate in our beta, watch this Github issue for updates.
Date: 2020-05-12
URL: https://tailscale.com/blog/2020-05-newsletter/
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| Remembering the LAN (2020-01-28) | This post was originally published on crawshawioA memory and a dream How it was I started programming in the 1990s living above my parents medical practice We had 15 PCs for the business and one for me The standard OS was MS-DOS The network started off using IPX over coax to a Novell Netware server the fanciest software we ever owned IPX was so much easier than TCP/IP No DHCP and address allocatio.. |
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| Joining Tailscale: simplifying networking, authentication, and authorization (2020-01-30) | This post was originally published on bradfitzcomI used to tolerate and expect complexity Working on Go the past 10 years has changed my perspective though I now value simplicity above almost all else and tolerate complexity only when its well isolated well documented well tested and necessary to make things simpler overall at other layers for most people For example the Go runtime is relatively c.. Joining Tailscale: simplifying networking, authentication, and authorization |
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