Setting up a Personal VPN with Tailscale & NextDNS
Having a personal VPN is something that is nice to have especially if you’re using any sort of public Wi-Fi or wanting privacy around your network setup. After using NextDNS for over a year, I wanted to take it a step further and use Tailscale as my mesh VPN along with it. That allows me to have my own private roaming network while blocking ads and domains that encroach on my privacy.
As of writing this, I was able to get them working in-tandem with an unstable version of the Tailscale client due to this issue. Once this issue is resolved, it should be available for use with the stable versions of the Tailscale clients.
Click on the “Router” under the “Setup Guide”. Keep this open in a separate tab because you will need those two IPv6 values
After getting this setup, I was curious about the performance and I basically see no difference in my day-to-day browsing and usages. One thing that surprised me was the fact that my ping latency in League of Legends did not change. It remained steady at around 12ms in the test game with or without the VPN on.
