Reaching My Home Network From Anywhere With Tailscale Subnet Routing
I wanted to print to my home printer from my phone while I was out. The printer only talks to the local network, my phone was on mobile data, and I didn’t want to expose anything to the public internet. It turned out Tailscale has a feature for exactly this, called subnet routing, and I had been ignoring it. The idea: you nominate one always-on machine on your home network. In my case it’s a small Intel N100 mini PC that runs 24/7 anyway. You tell Tailscale that this machine is a gateway to your LAN, say 192.168.1.0/24. After that, any device on your tailnet can reach any address on your home network through it, as though it were plugged into your router. No port forwarding, no dynamic DNS, no holes in the firewall. ...