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Can someone explain to me why I would use this instead of zerotier? Are there benefits I haven't seen?

EDIT: https://tailscale.com/kb/1139/tailscale-vs-zerotier/

That is a very fair writeup for a competing product. Nice!

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Up for this. Zerotier is very easy to set up too and quite stable in our experience.

I wonder, does either have "magic DNS" where I can access machines by their hostname or hostname.local or hostname.intra.mydomain? Last I checked zerotier had added a push dns feature but not on linux which is a deal breaker.

Tailscale offers exactly that, and even calls it "MagicDNS"! https://tailscale.com/kb/1081/magicdns/

https://github.com/zerotier/zerotier-systemd-manager

That's lit, thanks for sharing. So nice to see thats working and I can start using zerotier for real! I think this is an underappreciated convenience for people running smaller networks.

I use Tailscale's MagicDNS. Definitely a huge convenience as I run a few services that I use on the web browser, so having a domain name instead of the IP address is a win.

You can turn on mdns with systemd network files too. Which works over zerotier because it's L2.

Or as it turns out, the horribly ugly hostname.home.arpa, because why would you expect to have any of the more natural and obvious TLDs for home network domains:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28192247

I think .arpa is beautiful. I wouldnt use "home" for the subdomain though.

mDNS/Bonjour will work on small-medium sized networks since multicast works.

I don't think it works with Tailscale even though the tailscale0 interfaces say MULTICAST.

Was talking about ZeroTier.

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