[Telepathy] TURN servers in Empathy

Dominik George dominik.george at teckids.org
Mon Jan 26 09:06:38 PST 2015


Hi,

> ... but not every STUN server is also a TURN server. In particular,
> there are lots of free community-provided STUN servers out there.
> telepathy-gabble defaults to (iirc) stun.telepathy.im, which is provided
> by Collabora; that's sufficient to get through relatively "friendly"
> NATs, but it does not offer TURN (if it did, it would cost us a lot more
> bandwidth and would be a privacy concern for Telepathy users).

nonetheless, it seems valid to opportunistically add the configured STUN
server to the list of candidates to try. At least not less valid than
randomly adding some Google server to the candidates and simply trying
it ;).

-nik

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Dominik George (1. Vorstandsvorsitzender, Pädagogischer Leiter)
Teckids e.V. - Erkunden, Entdecken, Erfinden.
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