I could run the meta-metaserver if you wanted... --- Mark Wedel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> tchize wrote: > > Le Jeudi 2 Juin 2005 09:20, Mark Wedel a �crit : > > >>1) Has someone agreed to run the metametaserver? > What about the slave > >>metaservers? While all this looks nice, if you > don't have people willing > >>to run it/take care of it, it is all pretty > pointless. For the > >>metametaserver, I'm thinking more of the Tanner's, > since they currently > >>hold the main crossfire home page, but of course, > the metametaserver could > >>move someplace else (not as sure how many people > have as stable and ip > >>address and network connection that they do). > > > > > > That's were a static list on various website is > usefull, easy to place > > (crossfire.sourceforge.net could be a place to > hold the list) > > Yes, but a static list != metaserver. That is a > seperate issue. Certainly, > having static lists isn't a bad backup plan, but > isn't really the same thing. > > > > > > >>2) having the clients connect to the various > servers to get stats like > >>current number of active players is IMO an extra > level of complication that > >>can be done without. If we have a dozen active > servers (which was actually > >>low if I recall), you probably don't want to do it > sequentially - that > >>means it coudl take a significant amount of time > to go through them all. > >>Especially if one is down or unresponsive. this > means you need to do it in > >>parallel, and writing that threaded code is a bit > more complicated. Add to > >>the fact that the client would then have to send > some commands and parses > >>the responses from the server. I just don't see > any reason that dynamic > >>info shouldn't be included. > > > > > > could be done in udp (send a packet to each server > than wait 2 second for any > > response) > > udp is probably not a good option. Most peoples > private firewalls will > probably not work in that setup without changing the > configuration (they'd need > to be modified to let the return udp packet through > the firewall). So from a > client perspective, we really want to just stick to > tcp. > > > _______________________________________________ > crossfire mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.metalforge.org/mailman/listinfo/crossfire > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - You care about security. So do we. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail _______________________________________________ crossfire mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.metalforge.org/mailman/listinfo/crossfire
