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  • I did this about a year ago, and started with tailscale. But for some bizarre reason, tailscale would cause my entire internet connection to drop. I had the internet provider come out 5 times to fix it, i got a new router twice, they even checked for cable problems between my house and the neighbourhood switch. All to no avail. I would lose internet connection several times a day until i would reboot my router. I then found someone on their forum mention that tailscale was causing problems, so i turned it off. The problems stopped. I found no way to mitigate this.

    I ended up running wireguard, which works great for me, but does have a bit of a learning curve. I have rented a tiny cloud server which is the central hub, and all of my services run in podman with their own wireguard config. I run my own dns for the lacal domains. It took me a bit of effort, but is now running very stable.



  • I do the same. I have a real domain and certbot does a dns challenge. It was a little fiddly and took a moment to figure out, i think that was because i couldn’t gat caddy to work, but traefik worked a charm. Self signing is more complex i think because you’ll need to accept the root in every client (browsers especially?), which is even more fiddly.





  • I’m on bazzite which I believe is like a sibling or derivative of bluefin. All based on atomic fedora. Atomic means the base system is immutable, which should help with stability. As mentioned elsewhere, for bleeding edge you use flatpak or distrobox. Its been a pleasure to use, I’m very happy.





  • I had a similar issue with using tail scale, but here the issue was definitely not on the client. My actual DSL connection would reset, multiple times per day. Had the provider come 4 times to investigate the issue, got 3 new routers, they reinstalled the entry point to the house, and fixed an issue in the neighbourhood central point. All to no avail. I ended up purging everything tail scale and hand rolled wireguard. No more issues :/







  • Thanks, and you’re absolutely right on the use of ai for something as important as this (in the meantime I’ve been reading up on this in more reputable sources). I was simply stunned with the answer and wanted to share how striking the resemblance is with what’s going on, but didn’t mean to imply it was authoritative.

    Nonetheless I’m happy I shared because I probably wouldn’t have found those interesting links you shared.