---
title: Your own relay
description: Run your own minip2p relay instead of the hosted relay.minip2p.com, and point minipaw at it with --relay or MINIPAW_RELAY.
---

By default minipaw meets through the hosted relay at `relay.minip2p.com`. To
use your own, run
[`minip2p-relay`](https://github.com/deepso7/minip2p/tree/main/examples/relay-server)
somewhere public, then point the listener at it:

```sh
minipaw --relay /dns/relay.example.com/udp/19876/quic-v1/p2p/12D3KooW…
# or: export MINIPAW_RELAY=…
```

The ticket embeds a non-default relay, so clients need no flag. Relays must be
QUIC addresses.

## Circuit limits

With the relay's default limits a circuit carries only 128 KiB each way, which
is fine when hole punching succeeds. For peers that can't punch through, run
the relay with:

```sh
minip2p-relay --max-circuit-bytes 0 --max-circuit-duration 0 --circuit-peer-rate off
```