Does anyone use Anywherelan? (lemmy.world)

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Anywherelan (styled AWL) is a direct peer-to peer-to-peer LAN solution for self-hosting and accessing services remotely without a server infrastructure.

Tailscale connections require an account identity (or OAuth authentication through services run by Google, Microsoft, etc.) I currently use it because it's codebase is open, and there are self-hosted forks (that I have considered as a future fallback), and it is dead easy to set up and use. It "just works."

However, this just popped up on my radar and I'd never seen it before or even heard of this technology. I couldn't find any posts about it, but if it works as promised, this would be a huge improvement in terms of my overall infrastructure. It seems like a somewhat young project with very active development, but the first release goes all the way back to 2022.

Has anyone here tried it? Is it any good?

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[-] Andres4NY@social.ridetrans.it 3 points 2 weeks ago

@exu @gedaliyah fyi, yggdrasil supports a shared password. So while by default yggdrasil nodes on the same network will automatically find each other (via multicast) and form a single yggdrasil network, you can ensure only certain nodes connect to each other by setting the same password on each of them.

[-] exu@feditown.com 1 points 2 weeks ago

Yes, but AFAIK that's only for local multicast discovery. If you have a server listening for connections somewhere, those aren't password protected and anyone can connect to them unless you restrict the accepted keys.

[-] Andres4NY@social.ridetrans.it 2 points 2 weeks ago

@exu You can also add a password to the Listen section for that; though I haven't personally messed around with that feature.

[-] exu@feditown.com 2 points 2 weeks ago

Oh cool, I somehow missed that in the docs

[-] Andres4NY@social.ridetrans.it 2 points 2 weeks ago

@exu I think it's new!

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