I did the homemade version of this for years just with SSH forwarding and nginx reverse proxy

i like that it removes tailscale proprietary.

if that is goal then why not go 100% open source to eliminate the ts derp control as well and get full sovereignty?

like netbird, openziti, zerotier, etc.

>"like netcat, but over Tailscale's data plane"

Half of the Software offering nowadays seems to be selling vendor lock-in at no added value and then making a profit.

Interesting. I thought about doing this immediately after reading their old blog[1] post on punching through NAT some time ago. Just a combo of never getting around to it and friends talking me out of it b/c of existing alternatives such as wormhole[2].

[1] https://tailscale.com/blog/how-nat-traversal-works [2] https://github.com/magic-wormhole/magic-wormhole