--On Thursday, April 07, 2005 3:50 PM -0400 Michael McKoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
They like to use the default port or a similar port, evidenced by the fact that there's thousands of servers on ports 27016-27030, etc.
That's just voodoo networking. Select a port because it "feels" right (presumably because of reading some bare-bones howto), lacking any understanding of the technology.
As another person posted to the list, they had over 90 customers on port 27030. VAC2 has disrupted their business and forced them to move these customers.
That's a reasonable objection, based on continuity of service.
A bunch of you seem hell bent on bashing me for a bad choice of words in my first post
No more bashing than when my compiler tells me I've made a syntax error. That's not the compiler "bashing" me. It's telling me I screwed up, and it's right in doing so.
One of the reasons end users adhere to voodoo is because of conflicting information arising from erroneous posts like yours. If one doesn't correct the error, the voodoo continues. Sorry if it sounds like I'm bashing you. I just don't want incorrect information to spread, because that creates support headaches for all of us down the road. I often have to figure out where some end user picked up some lore, so I can figure out if the lore had a real foundation in the idiosyncrasies of some implementation or is just poor wording from some engineer.
(The worst kind of voodoo is voodoo programming, where one finds something hideous and uncommented in source code, written by a long-departed programmer, and doesn't know if it's safe to rewrite because it might be coded that way due to some compiler issue or some weird hardware dependency.)
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