Michael BabcockSunday morning project, set up Tailscale on most of my devices! Everything seems to be working and renamed devices to have appropriate names so I can access them from anywhere.
Steven Scott@payown I love Tailscale. It has so many other cool things too. I need to investigate those. Like Taildrop.
@stevenscott I honestly thought it was gonna take more time and be more of a headache to set up than it was. Now I’m just at the point where I’m like OK it’s done now what lol
Andre Louis@payown @stevenscott Tailscale is just fantastic. I have adblocking on all my devices via a Raspberry pi at home, regardless of whether I'm at home or on the road, because I set my tailscale DNs to always root through pi.
@FreakyFwoof @stevenscott So couple of questions for you! Are you using pie hole to block ads on all of your devices running through Tailscale? Is your pie an exit node or are you using a different device on your network as the exit note? And which pie are you using?
@payown @stevenscott PiHole, yes. Two pi 4's both with PiHole on, one as a fallback.
Don't even need to use exit nodes at all if you tell Tailscale that you're using custom DNS from the admin panel, and I put the Tailscale IP's of my pi's in, with even further fallback from quad9 dns so there are four name resolvers in there. First two are mine, last two are quad9's, if my home internet connection drops out for whatever reason.
Don't even need to use exit nodes at all if you tell Tailscale that you're using custom DNS from the admin panel, and I put the Tailscale IP's of my pi's in, with even further fallback from quad9 dns so there are four name resolvers in there. First two are mine, last two are quad9's, if my home internet connection drops out for whatever reason.
@FreakyFwoof @stevenscott OK, I have a four that isn’t doing anything right now, so I think I have an afternoon project thank you, sir
@payown @stevenscott PiHole is just a must-have for anyone imo, especially these days.
Borris@FreakyFwoof @payown @stevenscott agreed. I've been using it for over 10 years now, combined with Unbound for faster look ups via recursive caching.
@BorrisInABox @payown @stevenscott Did the same. Have a text file that should give you all the steps for unbound and pihole config if needed. worked for me twice, but I made the info for me so it's not best documented.
@payown @BorrisInABox @stevenscott Sure. It ain't pretty like I said but here it is: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/awtfc5cdlniwei75kjg9c/Unbound-DNS.txt?rlkey=5154257nzekf16w6dagb4wswk&dl=1
Scott@payown @FreakyFwoof @BorrisInABox @stevenscott Has anyone else had trouble with Taildrop sending to iOS? It's never worked here. I choose send with Tailscale in context menu on a Windows machine, select the file in the list box, there's a line I can find with object nav saying one file to be sent, but the button showing my iPhone device name always stays dimmed. Both machines are connected in the admin pannel though. No idea what I'm missing, any advice appreciated.
@Scott @payown @BorrisInABox @stevenscott I've never tried it, as I only saw the option there last night, and I tried from one windows machine to another. Nothing came up though. Will try.
@Scott @payown @BorrisInABox @stevenscott Just tried it, phone threw up a notification the file had been received. Tapped it and it came up in the standard iOS files app. Not sure why your phone is dimmed unless it's offline or the version hasn't been updated maybe?
@FreakyFwoof @Scott @payown @stevenscott Yep, also works here. I sent a file from my NAS at home to my phone 500 miles away on mobile data. Worked fine.
@BorrisInABox @FreakyFwoof @payown @stevenscott Thanks for reporting back. It's up to date and showing as connected so I'm none the wiser, will fiddle more with it.
@Scott @BorrisInABox @payown @stevenscott To be doubly sure, open an admin command prompt/powershell and issue
tailscale update --yes
Or remove --yes if you want it to check with you before updating.
@FreakyFwoof @BorrisInABox @payown @stevenscott Yah tried that, it says "already running stable version 1.96.3; no update needed".
@Scott @BorrisInABox @payown @stevenscott OO, tailscale status.
Check your phone, does it show connected next to the IP, or say something like 'last seen...'
Maybe would explain why it's dimmed.
Check your phone, does it show connected next to the IP, or say something like 'last seen...'
Maybe would explain why it's dimmed.
Alex Chapman@BorrisInABox @FreakyFwoof @Scott @payown @stevenscott God I need to give Tailscale a go at some point lol.
@payown @FreakyFwoof @BorrisInABox @stevenscott Chiming in real quick to thank you all for this informative conversation. I've now configured Unbound, and used Andre's config file, (along with Pi-hole documentation), as a guide, and set up my Pi-hole's DNS in Tailscale, so ad-blocking is now set no matter where I am.
@walkside3 @FreakyFwoof @BorrisInABox @stevenscott Same here, just finished it up! Little brother asked why I hadn’t eaten yet, told him got distracted. But now I have it all set up and configured.
Blind Joe@payown @walkside3 @FreakyFwoof @BorrisInABox @stevenscott Hey y'all. Really appreciate this conversation! I want to do this but it's way over my head. I downloaded the config file but I'm confused as to what to do with it. Can I get a short explanation of the hardware/tools a moron like me needs to get this pie whole thing up and running?
@theblindjoe @payown @walkside3 @BorrisInABox @stevenscott You may find this more readable/understandable.
Thanks to @Doug73 for putting this together based on my crappy text file.
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/s0l69mekjhdzrryqru9b3/pihole_unbound_guide.html?rlkey=35rsec1d7llyeet68c9jqc4nm&dl=1
Thanks to @Doug73 for putting this together based on my crappy text file.
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/s0l69mekjhdzrryqru9b3/pihole_unbound_guide.html?rlkey=35rsec1d7llyeet68c9jqc4nm&dl=1
@FreakyFwoof @payown @walkside3 @BorrisInABox @stevenscott @Doug73 Awesome, thanks! So I'm assuming the raspberry pie has a screen reader? If not, how do you install all this stuff?
@theblindjoe @FreakyFwoof @payown @BorrisInABox @stevenscott @Doug73 The easiest way is to SSH into the pi via another device and configure it that way.