Headscale is a coordinator server, it needs to be publicly exposed for the tailscale clients to be able to connect out to it.
Your node at home is typically behind a router NAT and firewalled. It should remain that way.
Tailscale can be used as a VPN if you advertise an exit node on any other client and connect to it. Your IP address would appear as the public IPaddress of that exit node. This is independent from using Headscale or the Tailscale coordinator.
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npub14t…shy62
2024-09-27 09:18:45
in reply to nevent1q…qqt6
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npub14tq8m9ggnnn2muytj9tdg0q6f26ef3snpd7ukyhvrxgq33vpnghs8shy62Published at
2024-09-27 09:18:45Event JSON
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