TrueNAS Scale | Resilio Sync only uses relay

[The_Saver]

Hello everyone,

I am using TrueNAS-SCALE-22.02.3 and have installed Resilio Sync using the Truecharts catalog (https://github.com/truecharts/catalog).
It works perfectly fine, except that the app only uses relays which is around 200-300 kbps which is unacceptably slow.

I have tried to troubleshoot the issue, looked into Kubernetes settings and tried to use a different network type instead of the default one called "Simple". Below is a screenshot of the default network settings that were created for me automatically:

I can connect to my server from outside network just fine through SSH, the TrueNAS Scale WebGUI and Resilio Sync WebGUI on the default port 8888. So for me it seems that everything should work just fine.

Before I used TrueNAS Scale, I had Ubuntu Server with all the same hardware/networking and I could use Resilio Sync without using the slow relays, which makes me confident that this is a configuration issue.

Thank you for reading this I will be grateful if you have ideas on what I can try to fix this issue.


Edit: Apparently I can get my full speed (direct connecting without relay) if I add the peers as predifined hosts. But this would then fail if/when they connect with a different IP address.

 

[The_Saver]

Does anyone have any ideas what I can try to troubleshoot?

 

[ddos127]

I do not have a solution but I'm also having issues with Resilio Sync, except for me I am not able to "see" any local folders to sync to a remote location.

 

[mr-elephant]

Edit: Apparently I can get my full speed (direct connecting without relay) if I add the peers as predifined hosts. But this would then fail if/when they connect with a different IP address.

Thank you for coming back to update your post with this very helpful information. It was very frustrating to attempt to synchronize terabytes of data at relay connection speeds.

I can also confirm that adding the local IP address of the peer, along with their listening port, resolves the issue. However, there should certainly be a better solution. I suspect that the root of the issue might lie in how the initial configuration of the Kubernetes image of Resilio Sync, because I have not encountered this problem with any peer-to-peer Resilio connection within my local network, apart from those that involve my NAS.

 

[sretalla]

I don't know much about Resilio and don't use it myself, but what it sounds like you're all talking about is an issue where the container IP address is abstracted from the LAN, so you're seeing all clients as non-local, hence using the "relay service" (I guess something from the cloud that uses tunneling and a directory service of sorts to get clients and servers connected... a bit of research showed me that it's actually a torrent tracker, but same idea).

I suspect that the TrueCharts chart has been updated a lot as the options shown above aren't the same currently.

I would start by trying to understand the options under advanced and "Host Networking", possibly adding a separate IP for the app... which may put you closer to where it was running under Ubuntu directly.

 

[soend]

Having also problems with resilio-sync running as truenas sale app. Resilio can see the other peer's but all traffic goes through relay server. On the same network i have ubuntu server running resilio and with same peers it uses uTP transport directly. So the issue has to be with running resilio in truenas. In truenas i have left the app network settings all default (and there isnt actually that much to change). Its pretty annoing.

 

[soend]

And also just wanted to thank the original poster for the tip to add peer's as predefined hosts. That "workaround" also works for me.