How to build your own VPN, or: the history of WARP

[fragmede]

at Cloudflare scale, absolutely. But today? Find a friend that lives in a different legal jusrisdiction that you trust. Install Tailscale on a raspberry pi Zero. Configure it all up. Send it to your friend. Get it on their wifi. Set up the corresponding app on your phone. Connect to it and use it as your exit node.

Voila, VPN!

[silisili]

There's zero chance I'd put some random device from anyone, even a friend, on my network - especially if I knew that was its purpose. Sounds like a huge liability. Do people really do this?

[mintflow]

Exit node really is a handy solution for build private vpn for sharing.

I have build a vpn called Echo VPN for apple platform which actually use tailscale open source core.

Also I think there is another benefit is that wireguard can be DPIed easily now adays, but DERP leverage HTTPS and upgrade which can do some obfuscation too

[aborsy]

This is something that everyone says and nobody does.

Do your friends do that?

The majority of people have no idea what is VPN or Tailscale and would be suspicious that you might be placing a hacking device or proxy for visiting bad websites in their home.

[vjerancrnjak]

Won’t work if behind CGNAT or will be insanely slow. Even ipv6 is not advertised sometimes.

I miss the days when I could ssh to my computer with ddns.

[rasengan]

There’s the VPN technologies and then there are VPN services [1]. Technology alone does not give you the service.

[1] https://vp.net/l/en-US/blog/The-History-of-VPNs-and-Logging