--On Thursday, April 07, 2005 11:41 PM +0200 Thiesson Johann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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.
You see this as server admin. But the customer, or even simply the player, would not understand why his server port is not as 95% of the other servers, between 27000 and 27100.
Perhaps, but you can add the explanation of why it's not so to a FAQ. Plenty of "how it works" documents around the Internet that can be referenced.
Once you leave the safety of a default port for a service, it doesn't really matter how far away you get. You still have to enter a value, and a value far away might be easier to get right than one nearby, because the customer won't as easily assume that the value you gave him is "wrong" and correct it to the default value.
Now if Valve (and other game makers) started supporting SRV records, you could eliminate ports from the UI and just use names. But's that pie in the sky, considering how few services have support for SRV.
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