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DaSHacka • today at 4:54 PM • 4 replies • view on HN

Related: the name for your Tailnet is randomly-generated from a list of 'tails', and a list of 'scales' in the format `<a tail>-<a scale>.ts.net`.

Many puns and easter-eggs in both! Recommend giving it a quick glance, some are pretty fun. Some examples include 'fable' as a 'tail' (IE 'tale'), and 'universe' as a 'scale'.

Words can be present in both lists when the entity is applicable to both a tail and a scale, so a tailnet named `koi-koi.ts.net` is theoretically possible too.

Found out about it after I randomly lucked into rolling 'miku' as my 'tail' when first creating my account :)

https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale/tree/main/words


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bluehatbrit • today at 5:48 PM

I added "wyrm" into both lists a while back to make wyrm-wyrm possible for some lucky individual.

LukaD • today at 7:02 PM

Hmm, did they always have this? Mine is `tail<a few random letters + numbers>`.ts.net.

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zahlman • today at 7:50 PM

Are we counting the long hair as a "tail" or something?