All VNC Repeaters

[B]

I'm hoping to list all the available VNC repeaters and reflectors in one place here (with preference for open source).

In another post I gathered the following list.

Please add to or adjust with anything I've missed. Thanks...

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The original repeater code used to be at
http://ultravnc.svn.sourceforge.net/vie ... C/repeater
but that whole directory is gone now.

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Variant by Shoodabean that logs the GUI window messages to a text file:
http://www.chunkvnc.com/extras/Repeater ... ui-log.zip

Description at I've made a tiny mod to the repeater...

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Linux version: http://koti.mbnet.fi/jtko/uvncrepeater/

Must be compiled (no binaries posted).

Description at http://koti.mbnet.fi/jtko/

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Repeater project by shadowfax that allows "all" VNC viewers:
http://code.google.com/p/vncrepeater/

Description at Modified repeater (Source code)

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Of course Karl Runge's famous Perl repeater:
http://www.karlrunge.com/x11vnc/ultravnc_repeater.pl

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and Rat's updated fork of it:
http://www.vuware.com/chunkvnc/ultravnc_repeater.zip

Description at
Stable ChunkVNC Repeater - Perl Script

<b> (New version 4-6-2011) </b>


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Another Linux Perl repeater mod, by lall:

http://www.chunkvnc.com/extras/lall/chu ... ter.tar.gz

Instructions at:

Linux repeater mod


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A "TeamViewer" styled "Quick Support" setup from shadowfax:

Quick Support tool based on UltraVNC 1.0.9.5

with repeater mirroring scheme:

Modified Repeater 2011 - Mirror Service (Win32 Build + Src)

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A 1.0.8 repeater binary and Runge Perl repeater are provided within ChunkVNC by supercoe:

http://chunkvnc.com/download.html


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Karl's x11vnc has sort-of repeater capabilities:
http://www.karlrunge.com/x11vnc/

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New official "Repeater 2011" 2.0 beta (as of 4/2011) by chief UltraVNC developer, <b>with web GUI</b>:

repeater 2011

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The original VNC reflector project is still at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/vnc-reflector/

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Took me a while to realize it, but Rudi may have indirectly created the Holy Grail of repeaters -- one that does NOT have to pass any traffic through it, AND one that works with ANY spam OR VERSION OF VNC, whether or not they have repeater support. (The all-caps mean this is exciting stuff.)

His NAT2NAT Reload project creates a DIRECT tunnel between viewer and server, and then gets out of the way, miraculously puncturing the NAT of BOTH routers along the way. Redirector/Relay source code is not yet released; it is running only on his test server. This is beautiful stuff.

NAT2NAT Reloaded:

viewtopic.php?f=55&t=27745

Related ChunkVNC Repeaterless NAT2NAT Test:
viewtopic.php?f=50&t=28788

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[JonD]

The comment about repeater at
http://koti.mbnet.fi/jtko/
"must be compiled"

might intimidate some folks... if they're running Linux, the instructions are very straight forward and not at all "techie".

The repeater continues to work very well for me and has the advantage of filtering ID #'s and IP addresses.

JonD

Edit:
I'll dig out my notes and see if I can come up with a simple step by step.

[B]

"Must be compiled" is a simple statement of fact, JonD. (As far as I can tell at any rate.) If someone is using Linux he or she may (or may not!) already be familiar with compiling code and the command linie. I agree with you -- lots of newer Linux users would indeed find it intimidating.

Maybe I underestimate the average Linux newbie, but the entirety of the instructions in the readme.txt file don't seem all that friendly to me:

This is my Linux port of Ultravnc repeater source code.

Compile with command: Make
You should now have a repeater file, start it with command ./repeater [inifilepathandname]

Various settings can be changed via ini file uvncrepeater.ini (read comments in file).

If you have any questions, suggestions, bugfixes etc, contact me via email:jtkorhonen@gmail.com

Regards,

Jari Korhonen

The author could have made binaries available too or, better, various Linux distributions might have made packages of it available (debs, rpms, etc.), but unfortunately neither of those seems to be the case at present.

<b>If you want to share a compiled binary or a package I'd bet either the original author, someone like supercoe here, and/or the various Linux repositories would be glad to have it and to host it for others....</b>

[redge]

Oliver, Admin of forum, made the uvncrepeater.deb where used for swiss.ultravnc.info if i remember but don't found the file. maybe he forget to publish the file to everyone ?

[B]

Hey looks like I just tripped over the RPM!

I was following up on a mysterious post about "Repeater2010" and found a link in the forum to http://www.uvnc.com:8080/downloads/repe ... loads.html

There are several other repeater versions there too! ("windows (bin) 2010, unix1, unix2, unix srpm, perl, windows source")

(Why is this still hidden under the "beta" site? The main ultravnc.info page still doesn't feature the new version of UVNC?)

Also I still see a discrepancy in licensing between my current version of the 1.0.8 repeater and the web site description. The Repeater starts up saying it's GPL 2, but the web site says its BSD....

[redge]

Rudi waitinng numbers of hit are enough before switch to new web site

[B]

Updated the list; bump!

[supercoe]

B,

Good stuff as always, thanks for the list.

[B]

Thanks supey.

I thought I'd add in two related projects in the quest to LogMeIn-ize the VNC environment:

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Rob Platt's on-demand VNC package generator at http://www.robplatt.com/index.php/2010/ ... -repeater/

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And the PHP fork of Rob's generator at http://phpremotesupport.com/

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I think they're both still a bit raw though. Getting a bit stale too.

Anyone else have something worthy of note?

[KyferEz]

Can any of you shed some light as to my questions I asked here: Re: Stable ChunkVNC Repeater - Perl Script

thx!

[yettyn]

You should definitely add chunkrepeater.pl to the list, Linux repeater mod perfect for us who run our own Linux servers or VPS, not so suited for a shared hosting environment though.

Just worked out of the box!

[supercoe]

Great info in this post B thanks for taking the time to update it.

Thread is now Sticky.

[B]

Absolutely, yettyn, not sure how I missed it. I just added lall's project as well as shadowfax's new one. Thank you.

KyferEz, I see Rat answered you in the other thread; I wasn't aware one could use directory paths in a repeater address!

Thanks, supey.

[B]

thanx for your efforts here

[stinson6016]

I like Karl's lastest version (2011-04-07) is any one able to mod it to also output to a sqlite db?

[B]

Added reference to the groundbreaking NAT2NAT Reloaded project.

[B]

(Why is this thread now filed under ChunkVNC?)

[supercoe]

No idea, I thought you put it here....

[B]

I don't think I did... there's no way to have posts in the parent "Plugins and helper programs" either. I guess either here or Related Products? But it's kind of UltraVNC specific....

[mikethompsonuk82]

Now that's what I call a useful resource, good work B, glad the Google gods let me find this post.

[mstoykov]

Hello, the company I work for needed repeater and so we forked it and fixed some issues under Linux. More importantly 100% cpu usage. The changes are not much but probably windows support is broken.

You can find the source at https://github.com/XSoftBG/repeater .

Thanks for the great work and hope someone will use it .

[supercoe]

Thanks for sharing!

[tbran6]

Is it possible to setup Instantsupport.exe to look for two repeaters? So if I wanted to run a backup repeater server at a different site could I choose to connect to a PC running Instantsupport.exe from the backup repeater?

[supercoe]

This feature isn't implemented currently but anything is possible with open source software.