Scenario: You use Tailscale to connect your LN wallet to your node (so much better than Tor!) or to post to your Umbrel private Nostr relay while out and about on mobile. But, as @npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx pointed out, you'd ideally have Mullvad running to hide your IP from other relays and general obfuscation.

But Tailscale + Mullvad = no funciona.

Solution: Run a machine in your LAN as a Tailscale exit node (you connect & route all your traffic through it). But configure that machine to connect out via Mullvad. You can still access everything in your LAN via Tailscale, but all outgoing traffic goes through Mullvad. Amazing!

But it's hard to get that to work. So go to this issue and thumbs-up it to raise its priority:

https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale/issues/2880

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Well I guess it’s time for me to bite the bullet on a VPN. Glad to hear this works!

Didn’t read close enough. Will definitely bump that issue. Is Mullvad the go-to for VPN? Any other recs?

Mullvad has split tunneling so you can exclude tailscale no?

Doesn't work that way, unfortunately. It's per app that wants to use a connection.

You could put your LN wallet in the split tunneling list, but wouldn't work for a Nostr app that wanted some obfuscation but also retain home LAN relay access.

Ah ok, understood