u/JetJaguar124

Recent update breaks Tailscale on my Windows devices

I've got several computers running a combination of NordVPN + Tailscale. I use Tailscale for remote access to my home network when I'm out of the house, and also for remote controlling a few PCs I've got from within the house. The entire setup was working great until upgrading to 8.2.2.0 and now the situation is a bit funky and has persisted into version 8.2.3.0.

On Tailscale it looks like my PCs are connected, but they're really not reachable. Nord is crowding out Tailscale on the 100.xx IP range it seems, but I'm a bit of a networking idiot so that's just my best guess from digging around some. I turned off Nord meshnet which can occupy the same IP range but that didn't fix it. On my desktop whitelisting Tailscale + a few of my apps (Rustdesk for example) on split tunneling works... but only after I disconnect from Nord and then reconnect. I have no idea but that works and allows my computer to stay connected to Tailscale.

But my living room PC won't stay connected if Nord is up. If Nord is down then it's fine. For a variety of reasons I always want my living room PC behind a VPN, and I also want to be able to remote access it from outside my home + from other rooms because it's a bit of a pain in the ass to use. This all worked 100% fine until the most recent update.

There was another thread about this here, but OP deleted for some reason: https://www.reddit.com/r/nordvpn/comments/1t5dr3i/comment/olkfiru/?context=3

I know on my Linux machine running Nord + Tailscale is a bit spotty and on my Android phone it's literally one or the other. That's all fine but it messing with Tailscale on my Windows devices where they once played perfectly nicely together has really been bothering me the past week or so.

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u/JetJaguar124 — 3 days ago