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Networking

Mesh (vspaces)

How ForestVPN's private mesh works for developers — device-to-device connectivity, MagicDNS names under mesh.fvpn.net, and where end users manage their own mesh.

A vspace is a private mesh: the devices in an account reach each other directly, end-to-end encrypted, routing peer-to-peer when a direct path exists and falling back to a relay when it does not. It is the same mesh your SDK brings up when a device joins the network.

Setting up a mesh in the app?

If you just want to link your own devices into a private network, the app does it for you — see the consumer help center at forestvpn.com/help.

Mesh names (MagicDNS)

Devices in a mesh get stable names under mesh.fvpn.net, so one device can reach another by name instead of address:

# Reach another device in the mesh by its MagicDNS name.
ping work-laptop.mesh.fvpn.net

Names stay leak-free under an exit node, and split-DNS routes only the queries you choose. See the Infrastructure API guides for how the mesh, devices, and consumers fit together, then start from a quickstart.