[Relay] chosen home relay server is random

[mohamed-essam]

Describe the problem

chosen home Relay server is random and not based on latency.

To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Deploy multiple relay servers (new relay) to different geographic regions.
2. Run client in same region as one of relay servers.
3. Observe chosen home relay server.

In my case specifically:

1. Deploy relay servers to AWS regions:
   a. us-east-1
   b. eu-central-1
   c. ap-south-1
2. Run client in us-east-1

Expected behavior

Expected client to chose home relay server to be closest server in latency.

Are you using NetBird Cloud?

Self-hosted

NetBird version

0.33.0

NetBird status -dA output:

N/A

Do you face any (non-mobile) client issues?

N/A

Screenshots

N/A

Additional context

I noticed in the code in relay/client/picker.go in processConnResults() it takes the first item with a successful connection from the resultChan chan, this is highly dependent on Golang scheduling and channel ordering rather than latency.

Might be relevant: tested client has only 1 core (so only 1 thread can run at a time, which would highly affect the ordering to be only based on the Go scheduling), another client which has 8 cores chose the nearest relay server consistently.

[nazarewk]

Hello @mohamed-essam,

We're currently reviewing our open issues and would like to verify if this problem still exists in the latest NetBird version.

Could you please confirm if the issue is still there?

We may close this issue temporarily if we don't hear back from you within 2 weeks, but feel free to reopen it with updated information.

Thanks for your contribution to improving the project!