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oracleplextailscale

Unable to connect internal apps using tailscale server name with specified port

As the title suggest, I want to basically disable the public TCP port and allow plex or other apps to only connect using Tailscale.

Like, I don't want to allow server-public-ip:32400, but instead I wanna do tailscale-server-name:32400.

If I have the port opened in TCP for all sources it works, doesn't work when I remove the ingress rule.

oracle-vcn

The server pings fine (MagicDNS enabled)

Pinging oracle.hidden-name.ts.net [tailscale-ip] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from tailscale-ip: bytes=32 time=36ms TTL=64
Reply from tailscale-ip: bytes=32 time=36ms TTL=64
Reply from tailscale-ip: bytes=32 time=38ms TTL=64
Reply from tailscale-ip: bytes=32 time=37ms TTL=64

Ping statistics for tailscale-ip:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 36ms, Maximum = 38ms, Average = 36ms
Solution

  • Figured it out. It won't work with only machine name as it won't resolve HTTP/S, will work with Tailscale IP or the ts.net domain.