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this should go as a suggestion here: |
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@haugene can you please enabled discussions on that repo as well, then we can transfer the discussion there. |
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Will do 👍 |
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Good idea. Lowest ping should be quite easy to script. Another benefit of that is that we would actually ping a bunch of servers before trying to connect so we would avoid trying (and failing) to connect to offline servers. Lowest load is a tougher nut. I don't think we can know the load before connecting. Some providers might have an API but that would require custom code for each provider. If we were to connect to a bunch of servers and do a bandwidth test for each until we chose the final one, that would take a lot of time. The image is not set up for that anyways. We release control to OpenVPN when we connect to the server, so we would have to change a lot to do something like that. I moved it to the vpn-configs-contrib repo @pkishino . But now I'm thinking that this probably has to be done in the image repo if anywhere? I'm moving it back for now 🙈 |
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Hi @haugene, Lowest ping would definitely be great! Anyway, thank you very much for your interest in the idea and for the great script. Cheers |
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Yeah, no, I don’t think this is something we should have in this repo.
Because some providers have api for this and others not etc I think this
should be up to each provider(maintainer) to implement a script for this..
as these things probably will change etc I for sure don’t see this as a
container responsibility..
…On Sun, Sep 5, 2021 at 8:37 Kristian Haugene ***@***.***> wrote:
Good idea. Lowest ping should be quite easy to script. Another benefit of
that is that we would actually ping a bunch of servers before trying to
connect so we would avoid trying (and failing) to connect to offline
servers.
Lowest load is a tougher nut. I don't think we can know the load before
connecting. Some providers might have an API but that would require custom
code for each provider. If we were to connect to a bunch of servers and do
a bandwidth test for each until we chose the final one, that would take a
lot of time. The image is not set up for that anyways. We release control
to OpenVPN when we connect to the server, so we would have to change a lot
to do something like that.
I moved it to the vpn-configs-contrib repo @pkishino
<https://github.com/pkishino> . But now I'm thinking that this probably
has to be done in the image repo if anywhere? I'm moving it back for now
🙈
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Also a good point. I guess I figured the only way to do this "once and for all" is to do it in the main repo. But this could and maybe should be a per-provider thing. We do have the |
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Hello,
I was wondering if it would be possible to screen through a list of servers to try and find the fastest one (lowest ping, lowest load?), then connect to it.
Have any of you already worked on something like it? I was thinking about a shell script to find the fastest one and set the right environment variables. The custom script would then be run before openvpn in the process.
Thanks!
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