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What happens when your transit server's bandwidth bill gets out of hand because someone is transferring a few TB of data to their backup host? (see article a few days back about someone griping about their 13 TB backups on Backblaze if you aren't sure this is a real thing)


It'll probably just break for the remainder of that month. I'm hosting that transit server on Linode, and I think (does anyone know for sure?) that their policy is to just turn off the interface if you go over your monthly allowance, which is like 4TB or 6TB on that instance.

Eventually I'm planning to have the client ask the transit server ahead of time for the size it intends to use, and the server can tell them to go away or make a donation or something.

"wormhole --transit-helper=tcp:HOST:PORT send" is how you can use a different server: the sender will tell the receiver about it in-band, so the receiver doesn't need to do anything special. The receiver accepts that argument too.


He will probably shut it down. The server is in the source code.




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