<snip> > Should I still continue to query the existing/old masters? I'm > assuming not everyone will upgrade right away, so there may still be > a lot of servers running the older version of Half-Life. Will the > old masters eventually be shut down? > yes you should keep querying them for the next 2 weeks or so, and yes, they will be shutdown once we roll the userbase to steam (i.e make the steam update mandatory).
> Does the region field actually inform me of where the game servers are > geographically located, or just the master itself? If it's to > indicate the location of the game server, how are you determining > this? By a server variable that the admin supplies, or something > else? It is the location of the server itself, and the server admin decides this value (via the sv_region cvar). > > If the region specifies the location of the master, is it safe to > assume that all of the masters are in sync so I can just query, say, > region 1, then if that one's not up, query region 0 ? Its not the masters region. All the master servers are in sync however (they all contain complete information about every server at this time). > > And lastly... Is there a fail over master in the event that > hlmaster1 is unavailable? Yes, there will be. Half-Life servers dynamically get the list of master servers available through steam. This allows us to add more servers on demand and we can also put servers in bandwidth hotspots. This dynamic behavior has removed the need for DNS entries for each machine. Once we are more aware of the load patterns we will assign a hlmaster2.hlauth.net that you will be able to use. > > Thanks. <snip> _______________________________________________ hlds_apps mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_apps
