Tailscale

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Tailscale Inc.
Company typePrivate
Industry
Founded2019
HeadquartersToronto, Ontario
Key people

Tailscale Inc. is a software company based in Toronto, Ontario. Tailscale develops a partially open-source software-defined mesh virtual private network (VPN) and a web-based management service.[lower-alpha 1][2][3] The company provides a zero config VPN as a service under the same name.[4][better source needed]

Tailscale
Developer(s)Tailscale Inc.
Stable release
1.70.0[5] / July 17, 2024; 6 months ago (2024-07-17)
Operating systemMicrosoft Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS, tvOS
TypeSD-WAN, P2P, VPN, ZTNA
LicenseBSD
Websitetailscale.com

History

Founded in 2019 by Google engineers Avery Pennarun, David Crawshaw, David Carney, and Brad Fitzpatrick,[6] the company secured funding of $12 million in a Series A round in November 2020 led by Accel with seed investors, Heavybit and Uncork Capital participating.[7] In May 2022, the company became a unicorn, raising a $100 million Series B round, led by CRV and Insight Partners, with participation from existing investors.[6][8] The company's name is inspired from a research paper The Tail at Scale[lower-alpha 2] published by Google.[9]

Software

The open-source software acts in combination with the management service to establish peer-to-peer or relayed VPN communication with other clients using the WireGuard protocol.[10][11] Tailscale can open direct connection to the peer using NAT traversal techniques such as STUN or request port forwarding via UPnP IGD, NAT-PMP or PCP.[12] If the software fails to establish direct communication it falls back to using DERP (Designated Encrypted Relay for Packets) protocol relays provided by the company.[13] The IPv4 addresses given to clients are in the carrier-grade NAT reserved space. This was chosen to avoid interference with existing networks.[14] The configuration also allows routing of traffic to networks behind the client on some clients.

Supported platforms

The Tailscale client software supports a number of operating systems and embedded software systems,[15] including:

A Kubernetes operator[18] and Docker images[19] are also available.

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ Although Tailscale provides VPN software & services, it should should not be confused to be what is commonly referred to as a VPN service, however Tailscale's software can be integrated with the Mullvad VPN service[1]
  2. ↑ Dean, Jeffrey; André Barroso, Luiz. "The Tail at Scale". Google. Archived from the original on 14 December 2021. Retrieved 9 March 2021.

References

  1. ↑ Chiara Castro (2023-09-08). "Mullvad and Tailscale join forces in the name of online security". TechRadar. Retrieved 2024-12-03.
  2. ↑ Rogers, Sarah (2021-09-09). "Tailscale VPN review". TechRadar. Archived from the original on 19 September 2021. Retrieved 2022-04-13.
  3. ↑ Vaughan-Nichols, Steven. "Tailscale launches Wireguard-secured mesh network". ZDNet. Archived from the original on 23 February 2023. Retrieved 2022-04-13.
  4. ↑ Hanselman, Scott. "Using Tailscale on Windows to network more easily with WSL2 and Visual Studio Code". www.hanselman.com. Archived from the original on 2014-08-09. Retrieved 2021-02-01.
  5. ↑ "Tailscale changelog"
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Kyle, Wiggers (5 May 2022). "Tailscale lands $100 million to 'transform' enterprise VPNs with mesh technology". TechCrunch. Archived from the original on 23 February 2023.
  7. ↑ Dillet, Romain (10 November 2020). "Tailscale raises $12 million for its WireGuard-based corporate VPN". TechCrunch. Archived from the original on 23 February 2023. Retrieved 2021-02-01.
  8. ↑ Tailscale (4 May 2022). "Tailscale raises $100M… to fix the Internet". Tailscale. Archived from the original on 6 May 2022. Retrieved 2022-05-05.
  9. ↑ Security Cryptography Whatever: Tailscale with Avery Pennarun & Brad Fitzpatrick. 15 Jan 2022. Event occurs at 45m53s. Archived from the original on 23 February 2023. Retrieved 23 February 2023 – via archive.org.{{cite AV media}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  10. ↑ Morgan, Ethel. "Tailscale". ethulhu.co.uk. Archived from the original on 23 February 2023. Retrieved 2021-02-01.
  11. ↑ "What is Tailscale? · Tailscale Docs". Tailscale. Retrieved 2024-08-17.
  12. ↑ "Troubleshooting device connectivity · Tailscale Docs". Tailscale. Retrieved 2024-08-17.
  13. ↑ "Terminology and concepts · Tailscale Docs". Tailscale. Retrieved 2024-08-17.
  14. ↑ "IP pool · Tailscale Docs". Tailscale. Retrieved 2024-08-17.
  15. ↑ "Download · Tailscale". tailscale.com. Retrieved 2024-03-07.
  16. ↑ Tailscale. "Access Synology NAS from anywhere". Tailscale. Retrieved 2024-03-07.
  17. ↑ "QNAP". tailscale.com. Retrieved 2024-03-07.
  18. ↑ Tailscale. "Kubernetes operator". Tailscale. Retrieved 2024-03-07.
  19. ↑ "Contain your excitement: A deep dive into using Tailscale with Docker". tailscale.com. Retrieved 2024-03-07.

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