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  • I mean it’s a commercial product - if stability issues were a common thing, that would be well known and published.

    It’s a mesh VPN so it generally has the same stability challenges as any other: Hamachi, Nord, Meshnet, Wireguard (which is the underlying protocol that Tailscale uses).

    If the Tailscale client is running on the NAS itself, I’d consider that the first thing to troubleshoot.

    NAS’s generally don’t have much extra processing power, and in my experience apps designed to run on them aren’t the most robust. In this case, the VM/dock client has to consume all TS traffic, perform the encrypt/decrypt, put it back on the net (even if it’s only with the virtual net) over to Borg, which then has to write to the NAS. The NAS hardware has to do all this, with whatever little bit of ram it came with, also while writing all these changes, managing stripes, etc.

    While they advertise these things can run stuff like this, it just seems like an opportunity for performance issues when the processing power design was for a NAS/RAID.

    I have an ancient NAS on my network that could probably run the TS client, I just don’t bother. TS runs on all desktops and servers (for general access), but connectivity to non-TS devices goes through the server running as a TS router. That can be run on any device running TS - it’s just a feature to enable and configure.







  • I can’t imagine not using a proper internal DNS with split anymore.

    I’m a big fan of Pihole (currently running it on a DietPi VM).

    Being able to manage DHCP and DNS in a single place makes for much better control than the crappy DHCP from consumer routers. And almost any real DNS/DHCP server combo is better than those things.

    Just rebuilt my PiHole over the last couple days, and it’s currently blocking 45% of DNS requests with no ill effects on any system - it’s a lot of Android app nonsense and a smart TV.

    I’ve lost the Samsung TV service on the TV, but I never used it anyway, and the TV is so much more responsive now.

    Yea, smart TV… Bad news. It’s next on the list to get a Kodi box on it.