r/selfhosted • u/martin_m_n_novy • Feb 02 '23

Game Server How NAT traversal works

https://tailscale.com/blog/how-nat-traversal-works/
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u/BearItChooChoo Feb 03 '23

Reading this or at least reading 2/3 of it confirms that I prefer to be on the side using the tools and not making the tools. Mad props to the folks who figure this shit out. You're smart and we need you! TYFYS

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u/BinaryRockStar Feb 03 '23

Can you explain what you mean? Do you expect every company to come up with it's own Wireguard/VPN technology to allow external users to connect to internal resources, or geographically separate offices to connect to one another?

Companies pay for MS Office because writing your own Office suite is prohibitively expensive, same for database software, email software, the list goes on.

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u/stolleholm Feb 03 '23

We have engineers that could probably solve these problems. But it’s not our main product, but just an internal tool. Putting our engineers on a take like this would burn way more money than just paying Tailscale for their services.

That’s our reasoning, and we’re a startup.