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digiowntoday at 3:49 AM1 replyview on HN

Where will you host the wg endpoint to open up?

- Each device? This means setting up many peers on each of your devices

- Router/central server? That's a single point of failure, and often a performance bottleneck if you're on LAN. If that's a router, the router may be compromised and eavesdrop on your connections, which you probably didn't secure as hard because it's on a VPN.

Not to mention DDNS can create significant downtime.

Tailscale fails over basically instantly, and is E2EE, unlike the hub setup.


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hamandcheesetoday at 4:10 AM

To establish a wg connection, only one node needs a public IP/port.

> Router/central server? That's a single point of failure

Your router is a SPOF regardless. If your router goes down you can't reach any nodes on your LAN, Tailscale or otherwise. So what is your point?

> If that's a router, the router may be compromised and eavesdrop on your connections, which you probably didn't secure as hard because it's on a VPN.

Secure your router. This is HN, not advice for your mom.

> Not to mention DDNS can create significant downtime.

Set your DNS ttl correctly and you should experience no more than a minute of downtime whenever your public IP changes.

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