How Myanmar Blocks Tailscale — and How to Beat It (opens in new tab)

A government blocks a VPN with a one-line SNI rule. The fix is a custom relay on port 443. Tailscale could make this trivial for millions — but they haven't. There's a lot of confusion about how Myanmar actually blocks Tailscale. Some say it's DNS poisoning. Others claim the coordination server is blackholed. A few insist the WireGuard protocol itself is detected and dropped. None of that is correct. The block is simpler and stupider than most people think — and because of that, the counter i...