Who pays for the stun and turn servers?

inglor · on April 29, 2020

Turn servers are expensive but there are plenty of free SatUN servers. For example Google offers free stun servers.

0xdeadbeefbabe · on April 29, 2020

Has the pandemic made ipv6 more popular somehow?

tialaramex · on April 30, 2020

Of course. IPv6 is much more widely deployed to home networks, whereas businesses tend to go out of their way to disable it. So when people are at home all over the world, whether that's the Christmas period or this present crisis, it bumps up IPv6 numbers slightly.

jzer0cool · on April 30, 2020

Had to look it up because I did not know:

A STUN server is used to get an external network address. TURN servers are used to relay traffic if direct (peer to peer) connection fails.

Could someone share practical usages of these commonly today to help me better grasp usage for these servers as a starting point?

expialidocious · on April 30, 2020

The Twilio page you posted was good.

I really like BlogGeek.me for WebRTC info. Here's an entry on the various servers involved.

https://bloggeek.me/webrtc-server/