Comment by mattlondon

I recently (just earlier this week in fact) had to spend a few days on fast-but-restricted "guest" WiFi and was struggling with this very thing: I needed to use a tailnet to access my servers for vscode remote development, but also needed a VPN since the WiFi was blocking harmless stuff like duckduckgo.com

In the end I was able to do a split-vpn config to allow VScode to bypass the VPN and leave the browser to use the VPN. Having tailscale just handle it would have been handy, and reading the docs today I found out that I could have just used a machine on my home network as the exitnode as well, which would have worked great too I expect.

Have to say though that this was the first time I had used tailscale "in anger" for any serious period of time away from my home network. It was superb and (apart from the VPN issue) just worked exactly as advertised and I was able to access all the stuff on my NATed home network as if I was in my home office. Brilliant product - thanks to all the tailscale folks ("tailers"?) on here for the product!