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Ansible playbooks to boot and run a server
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Use jitsi stun servers instead of Google. #18

Open berkes opened 4 years ago

berkes commented 4 years ago

This matches upstream config as set in https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet/pull/5433/ Announced in https://mastodon.nl/web/statuses/103924768952341004

This fixes https://github.com/vc4all/jitsi-hacks/issues/4

BjornW commented 4 years ago

I have a few questions (couldn't open the mastodon link..):

berkes commented 4 years ago
  • We're replacing 3 servers (2 backup servers) with only one? Does Meet.jit.si only offer one? Do we know if our instance has been falling back to backup servers?

They are not backups, they are round-robin. In a sense that makes them backups, because if A fails, it is retried at random again: with a 1/3d chance it will hit A again.

  • Is meet.jit.si better privacy wise than Google? I assume it is, but is there something 'tangible' like a privacy statement or some other statement on why they changed it?

The jitsi PR was applied because of privacy-issues. So we can assume it is at least not worse.

  • Do we still want to depend on an external party for the S/TUN server or host one ourselves? No clue how much of a hassle this would be.

No. We don't want to host them ourselves. The software to do so, is cumbersome, unstable and getting things like firewalls right are tough, I was told.

In the attached ticket https://github.com/vc4all/jitsi-hacks/issues/4, I've listed several sources of public STUN servers (well, stun servers are public by nature), some I could no longer find. GMX, and Xs4all would be good options, but I could not find or connect to their servers anymore.

BjornW commented 4 years ago

Ok, let's be brave and just try it :) We can always fall back to the original Google servers or in case of emergency setup our own.

berkes commented 4 years ago

On hold. Waiting for other tickets to be "backported" to ansible and then closed first: