[Bloat] Need help with netperf.bufferbloat.net server

[Frank Carmickle]

> On Mar 30, 2024, at 13:03, Rich Brown via Bloat <bloat at lists.bufferbloat.net> wrote:
> 
> Hi folks,
> 
> This note was prompted by a question from the crusader github repo [1] where I wrote the following:
> 
>>> It seems to me that the server netperf.bufferbloat.net (also called netperf-east.bufferbloat.net) has been down for quite a while.
>> 
>> Yes. I have been stymied by heavy abuse of the server. In addition to legitimate researchers or occasional users,
>> I see people running a speed test every five minutes, 24x7.
>> 
>> I created a bunch of scripts [2] to review the netperf server logs and use iptables to shut off people who abuse the server.
>> Even with those scripts running, I have been unable to keep the traffic sent/received below the 4TB/month cap at my VPS.
> 
> Does anyone have thoughts about how to continue providing a netperf server at the name "netperf.bufferbloat.net" while not overwhelming any particular server? Many thanks.

If you are looking to do some traffic steering, geodns is a great tool, if you are willing to either run your own authoritative DNS servers, or farm it out to a service that supports this, such as aws route53. I pretty busy right now, but I may have some time at some point to help spin up authoritative servers based on preferably knot, or pdns.

--FC