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by viraptor 3692 days ago
It was the best thing I found lately for creating a network without defining specific endpoints. I was pretty much looking for something like Hamachi, but more professional. End to end encryption is great too.

I was pleasantly surprised that I can just create a network with ipv6 and broadcast enabled and things like mdns/avahi "just work". Being able to enable "any protocol" rather than just ip4/6 is great too. In practice you get private encrypted network with non-colliding addressing, route optimizing (two hosts behind a nat will talk directly), mdns working out of the box. What else would you ever need? Android app is a cherry on top.
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api 3692 days ago
(ZeroTier founder here.)

iOS app is shipping next week. Approved by Apple, just waiting on a DUNS number (sigh).

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zrail 3691 days ago
How does the iOS app work? Does it add a new VPN type or something?

Edit: this is super exciting, btw. This will finally let me run some of my services exclusively on my ZT network instead of publicly.

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api 3691 days ago
The iOS app creates a VPN connection, yes, but it runs p2p. Same as Android.

It's approved. We're just waiting on a DUNS number for ZeroTier, Inc. :P

We also have experimented internally with network containers for iOS and Android apps, but that's a whole different use case:

https://www.zerotier.com/product-netcon.shtml

Network Containers is our experimental tech for allowing apps to join virtual networks with no kernel/OS involvement via a private mini IP stack. You can do P2P networking between instances of your app, other apps, servers, and anything else ("connect all the things") using standard network code, Posix network APIs, and familiar protocols like HTTP.

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