GeoIP has been accurate enough. Even if it's off by 500 miles it's still far better than the octets of the IP which is what they do right now.
-----Original Message----- From: hlds-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com [mailto:hlds-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com] On Behalf Of Cc2iscooL Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 8:36 PM To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list Subject: Re: [hlds] Master Server Move I hope all your IP addresses of both your clients and your servers have the correct geo IP data. On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 5:38 PM, Kyle Sanderson <kyle.l...@gmail.com> wrote: > I think I love you Zoid, > > Kyle. > > On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 2:54 PM, DontWannaName! <ad...@topnotchclan.com > >wrote: > > > That was broken anyways in TF2 I believe... > > > > On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 2:27 PM, 1nsane <1nsane...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > So it will no longer sort by ip similarity? Thank the dragons! > > > > > > On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 5:19 PM, Zoid Kirsch <z...@valvesoftware.com> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > On Wednesday April 14th we will be moving the HL2Master servers to a > > new > > > > set of IP addresses. One of the major new features is the new > Masters > > > > should return dedicated servers ordered by their geographical > distance > > > from > > > > the player requesting the server list, making for lower latency and > > > better > > > > connections. > > > > > > > > Dedicated server operators will generally have to restart their > > dedicated > > > > servers after this move to ensure they will correctly pick up the new > > > > addresses of the these Masters. The server browser in the Steam > client > > > and > > > > in games such as Team Fortress 2 will automatically move to the new > > > Masters. > > > > > > > > Server operators that manually set their master servers (we recommend > > > > against this practice however) please use " > hl2master.steampowered.com" > > > to > > > > refer to them instead of the IPs directly. This name returns all > Master > > > > addresses. > > > > > > > > We will update once the move is complete. > > > > > > > > -- > > > > /// Zoid. > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > 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 > _______________________________________________ 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
