[sph]

I had the same issue with NextDNS, and I also wanted to make Mullvad work with Tailscale. It does weird routing stuff on Linux so I had to write a custom script to make both VPNs work at the same time, and on iOS they're not compatible at all.

Then I wondered why I needed NextDNS at all, so I just replaced everything with pi-hole and zerotier (tailscale but plays better with custom networks. It's a simple interface with an IP address. )

Tailscale is cool and shiny, but it's one of those automagic software that don't leave much space for customisation and hacking. I guess I'm not the intended audience.

[411111111111111]

> zerotier (tailscale but plays better with custom networks. It's a simple interface with an IP address. )

That's like saying "it's like Cisco Anyconnect, except with less GUI applications"

They're both VPNs, that's basically all they've got in common.

Tailscale builds upon wireguard and creates a pretty polished interface for it. Zerotier has their own VPN technology and also provides hardware appliances for VPN termination

[nullfield]

Regardless of whether or not you use them, their article on how they do NAT traversal is pretty good:

https://tailscale.com/blog/how-nat-traversal-works/

[alexeiz]

How does zerotier performance compare to tailscale? Throughput and CPU usage-wise?

[sph]

EDIT: nevermind, ZeroTier has its own issues, so I went back to Tailscale.