> 1 round trip is long enough... say you're querying 30'000 game servers.
> it's now going to take twice the time to get a reply from them, might as
> well go make 6 cups of tea (instead of the normal 3) before the query
> process finishes :)

Well. GameSpy, and most other query tools, try to do lots of servers
simultaneously.
So, in the end, it won't be twice as long... Maybe 10% time increase or so,
depending on how the tools ahdles simultaneous connections.

> Heh, have you seen gamespy lately :)
Yes... Still a heavy ****

> Anyway, the point still stands that this should be fixed on the various
> network levels, not the application layer.
OK, while you get DoS-ed for the next 300 years (which is how long it will
take ISP's to start implementig this), we'll try to find other solutions.

Jeroen "ShadowLord" Bogers


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