Re: [rtcweb] Summary of ICE discussion

Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman@vpnc.org> Tue, 04 October 2011 22:59 UTC

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On Oct 4, 2011, at 3:40 PM, Cullen Jennings wrote:

> Paul Hoffman (CC'd) might have some interesting stats about operating a public STUN server. 

- Ran stunserver.org for a while because Cullen and Rohan thought it might be interesting.

- My ISP (a friend) complained about the traffic. We could see huge amounts, even though no one had asked.

- I transferred the domain to Cullen to run.

- A year after I turned off stun at the IP address that stunserver.org used to run on, the ISP's firewall says that the port gets *much* more traffic than vpnc.org and imc.org combined web and mail. Note that on the stunserver.org web page, we explicitly said that people should put our domain name in, not the IP address. This is all traffic that is getting no reply.

Conclusion: STUN is probably riper for tragedy of the commons than other protocols due to negligent developers who don't care if their clients keep hitting dead servers.

--Paul Hoffman