Tailscale Mullvad Exit Nodes

[dtk1985]

Thanks for this plugin, looks great. Loving niri+noctalia on cachyos so far :) What i noticed is when my computer is granted access to mullvad vpn exit nodes on the tailscale webui, then this plugin will list all exit nodes (around 500) and i simply cannot find my actual nodes in the list, because it takes too long do scroll all 523 entries. Would it be possible to have a switch in this plugin's config that can turn off listing of exit nodes, or just mullvad exit nodes? So we don't have to disable the mullvad addon in tailscale for that specific computer, and still be able to use this plugin without having to scroll through more than 500 entries with the mouse. I hope the developers can consider my idea.

[spiros132]

@nineluj

[nineluj]

Hi @dtk1985 , I'm the developer for this plugin. I don't personally use Mullvad with Tailscale, so I appreciate the report. That does sound like a poor experience.

Before I implement anything, I have a couple of questions:

1. Would you want to filter out only Mullvad exit nodes, or all exit nodes (including any machines on your tailnet that advertise themselves as exit nodes)? I think the first option makes more sense.
2. Could you run the following and share the output?

tailscale status --json | python3 -c "import json,sys; d=json.load(sys.stdin); peers=d.get('Peer',{}); exit_nodes=[v for v in peers.values() if v.get('ExitNodeOption')]; print(f'{len(exit_nodes)} exit node options found'); [print(v.get('DNSName','')) for v in exit_nodes[:3]]"

This will help me confirm how the Mullvad nodes identify themselves in the API, so I can implement the right filter.

Thanks @spiros132 for the ping!

[dtk1985]

here is the output of that command:

553 exit node options found
ca-tor-wg-204.mullvad.ts.net.
jp-tyo-wg-001.mullvad.ts.net.
us-lax-wg-606.mullvad.ts.net.

I would prefer Mullvad-only filtering too.
Thanks for looking into this

[nineluj]

Thanks for sharing that! I've opened a PR: #393

[leiserfg]

@nineluj if you are still on this, can you also consider adding a way to use a node as the active exit node (and also don't use exit node in general)?