Tailscale

Tailscale is a zero-configuration VPN that makes it easy to connect devices securely over the internet. We use it to create a company-wide network. It also acts as a shared DNS server. Which allows resolving names to other platforms on the network without having to remember the IP address, and ensure an encrypted communication network.

Tailscale is automatically configured to start when the platform is booted up.

However initially the platform isn't fully authenticated to our company tailnet.

To do this make sure to run:

tailscale up --accept-dns

Without doing this, any DNS resolution will be very slow. In fact the entire internet will be slow as our platforms are configured to try resolving names via our tailnet DNS server.