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Re:About the Tailscale.com outage on March 7, 2024 by fanf2 on Saturday March 30, 2024 @01:32PM (#39876811)
I think a TCP proxy would also work with http challenges.
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Re:About the Tailscale.com outage on March 7, 2024 by agwa on Saturday March 30, 2024 @02:37PM (#39877437)
It would, but so would an HTTP proxy. It makes make think the hosting provider doesn't use HTTP challenges.
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Re:About the Tailscale.com outage on March 7, 2024 by fanf2 on Saturday March 30, 2024 @04:03PM (#39878118)
An http proxy would need to be configured cleverly enough to serve its own acme challenges directly, and proxy any requests for the backend’s acme challenges. Which is I think the trick that was missed by the tailscale setup.
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Re:About the Tailscale.com outage on March 7, 2024 by agwa on Saturday March 30, 2024 @07:59PM (#39879886)
Good point!
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