Comment by cbushko

Tailscale ssh is very useful when away from your home network. Setup was pretty easy and the only 'gotcha' that I found was you cannot assign ssh to a mac machine if you are using the gui app. No worries though as it was easy to get tailscaled running with nix-darwin.

I am often away from my home network and my main gaming machine is asleep. I worked around this by installing tailscale + tailscale ssh on my router (yes you can to this!) and using it to send a wake-on-lan packet to my gaming machine.

Some useful fzf code for anyone that wants to get a listing of tailssh machines.

  tailscale status --json | jq -r '
    .Peer[] |
    select(.Tags?[]? | contains("tag:dev")) |
    "\(.DNSName)"' |
          sed 's/\.$//' |
          fzf --ansi --border-label="| Tailscale SSH Hosts |" --height=30% --  border=rounded \
              --margin=2,2,2,2 --prompt "Connect to: " --preview-window=top:40% \
              --bind "j:down,k:up,ctrl-j:preview-down,ctrl-k:preview-up,ctrl-f:preview-page-down,ctrl-b:preview-page-up"