Self Host Public Server List

[trymeouteh]

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Description

The ability to self host your own public server list which can be used to index Mumble servers.

https://github.com/mumble-voip/mumble/discussions/5905
https://github.com/mumble-voip/mumble/discussions/5906

Mumble component

Both

OS-specific?

No

Additional information

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[Krzmbrzl]

What good will this do other than potentially fragment the server list?

[trymeouteh]

• It will decentralised mumble more with allowing multiple public server lists instead of one central public server list
• Mumble server with this feature, can have their server listed on 1, 2, 3 or multiple server lists. Not just be limited to one server list which will not fragment the server list.
• People can host a more private server list.

[Krzmbrzl]

Fair enough. I don't expect this to take any priority at this point though. But if anyone wants to give this a shot, let me know!
It will also require us to e.g. transform our service infrastructure into a Dockerfile, but that'd be a good thing anyway...

[davidebeatrici]

Well, a Dockerfile would be complementary.

The idea is to rewrite the infrastructure in a high performance language that can provide us most of the stuff we need in its standard library.

Lua has been serving us well, but we are relying on quite a few third-party components and there are some quirks in its syntax, such as indexes starting from 1 instead of 0.

I've been experimenting with V for the past ~2 months and I'd say it's ideal for something like this.

Basically, we would end up with a server that can then be used through a reverse proxy (Nginx usually).