Tailscale Down
25 comments
·November 19, 2025seemaze
Just arrived from perusing the headscale repo for the nth time. I really should deploy one of these days...
sureglymop
Nothing personal against tailscale but I hope it drives the point home that leaving the hosting of the key exchange server for your mesh network to an external entity is a little bit ridiculous.
mikeocool
My self hosted stuff has outages too. The even more annoying part is that it stays broken until I get around to fixing it.
bithavoc
with Tailscale Lock you have a lot more control, you can also self-host your coordinator server which is an alternative even mentioned in the service docs[0]
creddit
Are self-hosted solutions impervious to outages? I wasn't aware.
the_gipsy
Who said that
LeoPanthera
"sureglymop" certainly implied it, otherwise I don't know what the point of that comment was.
mbesto
If your key exchange server is on us-east-1 are you also ridiculous?
pepemon
AFAIK, only new connections can't be established, the already connected clients will continue to work.
nirav72
Lemme guess - us-east-1?
clarkmoody
Massive outages of core Internet services popping up shortly after corps firing devs and bragging about AI writing more of their code.
timenotwasted
I could be mistaken but I don't recall Tailscale being one of these?
jakebasile
Tailscale is definitely not one of that crowd. Their CEO had some very reasonable takes on AI and developers on LinkedIn / their blog (linked in a sibling comment).
waterTanuki
Tailscale isn't a massive corp, more like a Series B startup. And the CEO's take on LLMs is a sober one, not based on hype.
tapppi
Both the web interface and connections are down now. Was just fiddling with my private DNS serving both my local network and tailnet, when I lost access to the device listing around 20 minutes ago. Now I also cannot connect through tailnet IPs anymore. EDIT: took me a good minute to realise this too, as I thought I'd just screwed up something in my Pi's ipv6 configuration for the 3rd time in an hour.
P.S. you beat me to posting by 1 minute! Happy to see there was an option to hide my submission, never needed that before.
gnabgib
hide just removes the submission from your page/new, it doesn't remove it from HN.. delete does that.
poly2it
I was going crazy trying to figure out why I couldn't connect to our supercomputer an hour ago. Relieved to know it was a global outage!
para_parolu
As someone pointed out recently here: no one gets fired for AWS outage
Thought this was for a product release called Down. Might be time to go outside for me