tailscale/tailcat
like netcat, but over Tailscale's data plane, without Tailscale's control plane
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About tailscale/tailcat
Tailcat is a remix of Tailscale open source pieces to act like netcat, but over Tailscale's data plane, without Tailscale's control plane. Tailscale's data plane (magicsock, internally) gives you point-to-point WireGuard®-encrypted tunnels between two machines with DERP as the NAT-hole-punching communication side channel and the ultimate relay-of-last-resort if NAT traversal fails. Instead of using the Tailscale…
The tailcat CLI (in cmd/tailcat) is built on the tailcat Go library (importable as github.com/tailscale/tailcat).
Description and README excerpt from tailscale/tailcat on GitHub ↗.
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tailscale/tailcat was first seen on GitHub · Trending Go today on Oct 29, 2026. Since then it has appeared in 8 checks on 2 different days. Its best position was #9 of 19, reached on Oct 29, 11:47 UTC. It dropped off the list after Oct 30, 08:50 UTC.
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#9 on GitHub · Trending Go today, on Oct 29, 11:47 UTC. Trendoday checks this list every 180 minutes.
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It was first seen on Oct 29, 2026 and has been on the list on 2 days (8 checks) since.