Travelling with Tailscale

The great thing about Tailscale is that you don&#x27;t need an external internet-visible server to act as a proxy. Its NAT traversal is near perfect. The digital ocean droplet mentioned in the post is likely creating more problems than it is solving (its IP address is easily recognizable, and so your traffic will be flagged across the internet).<p>I use a raspberry pi connected to my router as a DNS server and exit node and the experience is seamless. And as a bonus I get to keep using my home IP address for all traffic.

Misleading blog title, I&#x27;d more call it &quot;Fixing Tailscale Route Hijacking&quot;.<p>This is, honestly, one of the things I like the least about tailscale, and also one of the things they are least likely to change. I understand why they do it, but it feels a bit like too much magic. Tailscale is an incredible bit of kit though.

<i>I have an upcoming trip to Europe, which I am quite excited about. I wanted to set up a Tailscale exit node to ensure that critical apps I depend on, such as banking portals continue working from outside the country.</i><p>I&#x27;ve never had an issue accessing banking portals from Europe.

I set up Tailscale on my Apple TV at home and can use it as an exit node when traveling, so traffic still comes from my home IP.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tailscale.com&#x2F;kb&#x2F;1280&#x2F;appletv" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;tailscale.com&#x2F;kb&#x2F;1280&#x2F;appletv</a>

Don&#x27;t do that for banks. I had a reverse problem. Went to usa (comming from eu) and used vpn for accessing bank portals. I paid using my card somewhere in sf, and then logged in to my bank using VPN. They blocked me because of possible fraud…

My dsl router has the option to setup wireguard and it can be the exit node with a few clicks. What does Tailscale offer more than that?

Y’all installing Tailscale on work laptops? Unless you got an explicit written permission to do just that - don’t. In many places this is a fireable offence.