Tinc different! - Part II: The Two Tunnels

This is the second part of my little series about tinc and NixOS, where I first shortly introduced tinc and then explained how to set it up on Linux in general as well as on NixOS. This part is more or less a rewrite of a question I posted to the NixOS discourse a while ago. For a while I’ve been using tinc on a bunch of infrastructure and so far it’s basically been rock solid: once set up nodes anywhere simply join their network and become reachable for anyone who needs to access them....

April 12, 2021 · 20 min · oblivious observer

Tinc different! - Part I: The Fellowship of the Ping

This is a post about tinc - a nifty little Mesh VPN service. It is also the first part of a little series of posts related to tinc and NixOS. In this first part I’ll just write a bit about how to set up tinc, then in the second part I’ll take a closer look into how writing a NixOS module can managing tinc networks easier. And finally in the third part I’ll present a rewrite of the module with a bunch more features....

April 3, 2021 · 10 min · oblivious observer