hey, That's what I was thinking.
Maybe the alternatives you pointed to should be more visible, I could not find them when I googled. Also, it may make sense to remove the netrender add-on altogether. After all, the code is outdated. Alexander On 08/10/2018 18:19, Brecht Van Lommel wrote: > Hi Alexander, > > The netrender addon hasn't really been maintained for a long time, and > probably does not have that many users. It wasn't designed to be used over > the internet, just for local render farms. > > More actively maintained render farms are for example: > https://www.flamenco.io/ > https://www.crowd-render.com/ > > As for SSL authentication, personally I think using a VPN is a more > reliable option than adding some custom authentication. Then all data > transferred will also be encrypted, and the VPN software will likely be > better tested for vulnerabilities. > > Regards, > Brecht. > > > On Sat, Oct 6, 2018 at 5:53 PM Alexander Kampmann <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> hi, >> >> I spend the last couple of days setting up a netrender master in the >> google cloud. This was more challenging than I thought it would. There >> were two main problems: >> >> (1) A bug in the code, fixed by myself: >> https://developer.blender.org/rBAf975292b1ec103826fe244dfdb851fed0428b624 >> >> (2) There doesn't seem to be any way for master, slave and clients to >> authenticate each other. If those services are connected to the >> internet, this means anyone could use my render server. I patched the >> code to use SSL client authentication (I guess you could also use >> something external, e.g. VPN, but that would require more setup). >> >> Now I can render small files. But for larger scenes, I get either a >> timeout on submitting the job, or "File upload but checksum mismatch, >> this shouldn't happen" on one of the job files. This means my netrender >> master is not usable. >> >> So, basically I have three questions: >> >> (1) Is netrender being used successfully by someone? If so, I am >> probably doing something wrong. >> >> (2) Would you like to merge my ssl client authentification code? If >> there is a better way of securing master and slave, it might be better >> to avoid feature creep. >> >> (3) Assuming that it actually is that the code is broken, does it make >> sense to fix it or is there a better alternative to distributed rendering? >> >> Best, >> >> Alex >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Bf-committers mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers >> > _______________________________________________ > Bf-committers mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers >
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