How to automatically select the fastest VPN server?

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Hey all, I’m using Surfshark and Wireguard. Is there an environment variable (or some other config) that can be used to tell gluetun to automatically use the fastest VPN server? Preferably, the fastest United States VPN server?

I read somewhere environment var “SERVER_HOSTNAME=fastest” is supposed to handle this scenario but it doesn’t work for me. In the meantime, I’m using SERVER_CITIES to specify servers close to me but I don’t believe gluetun automatically selects the fastest one. Perhaps I’m wrong about this tho. TIA for any help!

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No. There is no code to detect the fastest servers.

But someone demonstrated a method to call an external script from a docker-compose file to get the fastest server for NordVPN here: https://github.com/qdm12/gluetun/issues/719

You can get a list of servers by running:

docker run --rm -v /tmp:/gluetun qmcgaw/gluetun format-servers -surfshark
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Thanks /u/sboger. I’ve submitted a similar feature request for Surfshark here: Feature request: select the fastest Surfshark server · Issue #2388 · qdm12/gluetun · GitHub