Integrate Tailscale

[ignoramous]

May be possible to run tailscale in its "usermode" setting. tsnet.go and userspace.go may have some pointers on initializing the tunnel approp.

Also: tailscale-android/pull/122

Ask from users here and elsewhere.

[northmendo]

I too would love to see this integration.

[ignoramous]

It turned out a bit more complicated than I had imagined. It looks possible but tailscale offers so many configuration options that a full integration would be a mammoth undertaking... unless Tailscale is willing to sponsor the integration ;)

[subcidr]

I second such a implementation/integration between Tailscale and RethinkDNS.

[milesmcclane]

@ignoramous if you could possibly review the conversation in my linked post above, and give your thoughts?

[ignoramous]

The Tailscale engs are right that it doesn't make sense for them to "integrate with Rethink".

I am sure, the Tailscale clients will have LittleSnitch-like functionality eventually, but not necessarily implemented like Rethink does.

Running Tailscale in usermode is something do-able within Rethink. Though, I am unsure how many usecases a "usermode" Tailscale covers, as it is very limited in functionality (as compared to running a full-blown Tailscale client/daemon).

Integrating the entirety of Tailscale within Rethink is also possible but it is its own 6 month project.

[milesmcclane]

OK thanks for your insight. So for now it looks like a one or the other situation. Thats a shame! I wish I could be useful and help but I'm neither financially nor technically able.

[hegdenischay]

I've kinda sorta gotten this to work by using tailscale in userspace mode (on Termux) and tunnelling all traffic through the socks5 proxy that it creates. It works if I exclude Termux from RethinkDNS (otherwise it'd create a loop lol), but it would be much better to have some level of official support for this, since running full-blown Termux for this is quite a battery drain.

[RazzoR023]

This is the only thing missing for me personally for an complete networking package experience with rethink.