You mean clients querying the server, rather than the master server? The master server, afaik, only sends down an IP address, not a whole query.
Never wrote: > I dont think so... > > I am curently hosting in the second most important hosting of Argentina > (The first has more ping for international players). > And When i asked to do an international tournament they didnt say > anithing, but when i asked to enable master server they said "NO! With > the amount of servers we are currently hosting we cannot enable MS > communication because our connection can't handle it." > I don't think they are lying, because their service is great and they > always give the better service they can, thats why they are so great. > You know, here in South America, the internet connections are not as > fast as yours. > Think about millions of queries to hundreeds of servers, thats a lot of > traffic. > > And, yes ratman, they have MS disabled and they are the most important > hosting provider in the country i realy don't know how... > But their service is excelent. > > ¿Is there not any kind of master server caché? > This wold be a great idea, master server caché takes information about > the servers over lan and then, the clients queries the cache and not > directly to the server. > > Thanks > > Kveri escribió: > >> Hi, >> >> I don't think MS communication is traffic expensive. I think providers >> use disabled MS (enabled -nomaster) because they don't want foreign >> users on their customers' servers => no international traffic. >> >> Kveri >> >> Never wrote / napísal(a): >> >> >>> Hi! >>> >>> I am new to the community. >>> >>> I need some help. >>> I want to start my own gamehosting company, but i have seen that most of >>> massive gamehosting providers here in Argentina keeps master server >>> communication disabled in order to avoid the high amount of traffic >>> produced by the querries. >>> >>> ¿Is there any way to reduce this amount of traffic and allow my >>> customers to have their servers listed in the master server list? >>> >>> Thank You >>> >>> German Bobr >>> >>> Pheek Gaming >>> www.pheek.net >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, >>> please visit: >>> http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds >>> >>> >>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, >> please visit: >> http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds >> >> >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please > visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
