Revision as of 17:45, 17 November 2025

About try.desync.com

try.desync.com gives you a web-based shell on a dynamically-allocated instance.

There are some differences from a normal instance, though. Specifically:

The host is a VM.
Network connections are limited in terms of concurrency.
Network traffic is limited in aggregate throughput.
The Basis image is a customized FreeBSD that includes some tools like curl and mtr.
SSH host keys are pre-generated (and thus, shared) to reduce startup time.
The broker's SSH keys are preloaded, rather than having to wait for desync-provision to run.

The session broker (Zuul) places some limits on number of concurrent sessions beyond the normal placement limits imposed by the API, mostly by client ASN and/or subnet. The idea is to prevent one person from hogging all the sessions, which might also indicate that some mischief is afoot.

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 * Network traffic is limited in aggregate throughput.
 * The [[Basis]] image is a customized FreeBSD that includes some tools like [[curl]] and [[mtr]].
+* SSH host keys are pre-generated (and thus, shared) to reduce startup time.
+* The broker's SSH keys are preloaded, rather than having to wait for desync-provision to run.
 The session broker (Zuul) places some limits on number of concurrent sessions beyond the normal placement limits imposed by the API, mostly by client ASN and/or subnet.  The idea is to prevent one person from hogging all the sessions, which might also indicate that some mischief is afoot.