Documentation

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Here are some good articles to start with:

Getting Started with Tailscale

Welcome! Follow the steps below to create your own private Tailscale network. Step 1: Sign up for an account You can sign up for a Tailscale …

Subnet routes and relay nodes

Tailscale works best when you install Tailscale on every client, server, or VM in your organization. That way, traffic is end-to-end encrypted, …

DNS in Tailscale

By default, Tailscale provides each device with a unique, stable IP address. However, IP addresses aren’t very memorable, and can be …

Inviting others to your network

Tailscale networks are based on your email address domain name. If you signed up as david@example.com, only users with an @example.com email …

How Tailscale works

People often ask us for an overview of how Tailscale works. We’ve been putting off answering that, because we kept changing it! But now …