Maybe it could be done with a collision event instead of a sensor? When an
avatar collides with invisible sphere (with a 10-20m radius), you know someone
is near your gate, so you can start polling.
- Gwyn
> On 22 Jan 2015, at 21:15 , Shaun T. Erickson <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> 1) We don't know that it's a hypergate at all - we just surmised that it
> might be. 2) As for my gates not checking if no one is near it, well, that
> never occurred to me, to be honest. Wouldn't that require an active scanner
> of some sort that would chew up CPU, constantly looking for someone nearby?
> If so, then a simple blind check, once an hour, would be less costly, yes? If
> not, then perhaps it's something I should consider adding to mine.
>
> -ste
>
> On 1/22/15 2:13 PM, Serendipity Seraph wrote:
>> If it is a hypergate then why should it bother to check at all if no avatar
>> is within a certain distance of it? Once and hour or less seems more than
>> reasonable.
>>
>> On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 10:18 AM, Shaun T. Erickson <[email protected]
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> That's not mine. Mine is the other one he mentioned: 65.78.40.167.
>>
>> -ste
>>
>>
>> On 1/11/15 1:15 PM, Diva Canto wrote:
>> Ai's log shows a probe originating from the same IP address (94.135.203.122)
>> every minute and a half. If this address is yours, please consider dialing
>> this down. If I see this level of spam coming into my grids, I will block
>> the originating IP.
>>
>> On 1/11/2015 9:50 AM, Shaun T. Erickson wrote:
>> As do my gates - hence 24 times a day. That's very low. But if many people
>> are using a copy of your teleporter or my gate and have them configured to,
>> say, a popular grid, then they will of course, see a lot more than 24 a
>> day. Or maybe there's someone out there who made a device that checks more
>> often than ours ...
>>
>> -ste
>>
>> On 1/11/15 12:38 PM, Diva Canto wrote:
>> My teleporting device probes every hour.
>>
>> On 1/11/2015 9:34 AM, Shaun T. Erickson wrote:
>> I got that feature from *your* teleport booth, Diva. :)
>>
>> I don't think my address pinging another 24 times in one day is a lot,
>> really. However, if you get tons doing that, then perhaps.
>>
>> -ste
>>
>> On 1/11/15 12:17 PM, Diva Canto wrote:
>> I think it's a lot. Ppl writing these hypergates should be a little more
>> restrained. There's no need to spam.
>>
>> On 1/11/2015 9:00 AM, Shaun T. Erickson wrote:
>> On 1/11/15 5:53 AM, Ai Austin wrote:
>>
>> From: "Shaun T. Erickson" <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
>>
>> What kind of traffic is it? My Blamgates check their destinations once
>> an hour - perhaps they are doing something similar, but at a greater
>> frequency? Just a wild guess, though.
>>
>>
>> Thanks Shauin, and yes from the port numbers begin used I expect it is
>> indeed some scripts to check for things benign alive or pinging hypergates,
>> etc.
>>
>> I wondered if anyone recognized the 191 second interval as well as the IP
>> address.
>>
>> Once an hour is not too bad.. and I see four or five such IP addresses one
>> of which might be your blam gate for us.. e.g. 65.78.40.167
>>
>> But every 191 seconds means my Robust.exe console is now full up with these
>> debug messages when I check things every so often... yes I know I can turn
>> that down to INFO only being shown..
>>
>> Samples below... !!
>>
>> 08:55:32 - [Wifi]: DefaultRequest from 94.135.203.122:63188
>> <http://94.135.203.122:63188/>
>> 08:57:53 - [Wifi]: DefaultRequest from 94.135.203.122:63260
>> <http://94.135.203.122:63260/>
>> [SNIP]
>> >Once an hour is not too bad.. and I see four or five such IP addresses one
>> >of which might be your blam gate for us.. e.g. 65.78.40.167
>>
>> Yes, that's my address. :)
>>
>> You think every 191 seconds is a lot? My grid sees one of these every few
>> seconds:
>>
>> ...
>> 11:33:34 - [Wifi]: DefaultRequest
>> 11:33:37 - [Wifi]: DefaultRequest
>> 11:33:40 - [Wifi]: DefaultRequest
>> 11:33:44 - [Wifi]: DefaultRequest
>> 11:33:48 - [Wifi]: DefaultRequest
>> 11:33:52 - [Wifi]: DefaultRequest
>> 11:33:55 - [Wifi]: DefaultRequest
>> 11:34:07 - [Wifi]: DefaultRequest
>> 11:34:14 - [Wifi]: DefaultRequest
>> 11:34:16 - [Wifi]: DefaultRequest
>> 11:34:23 - [Wifi]: DefaultRequest
>> 11:34:26 - [Wifi]: DefaultRequest
>> 11:34:46 - [Wifi]: DefaultRequest
>> 11:34:49 - [Wifi]: DefaultRequest
>> 11:34:53 - [Wifi]: DefaultRequest
>> 11:34:58 - [Wifi]: DefaultRequest
>> 11:35:01 - [Wifi]: DefaultRequest
>> 11:35:08 - [Wifi]: DefaultRequest
>> 11:35:14 - [Wifi]: DefaultRequest
>> 11:35:15 - [Wifi]: DefaultRequest
>> 11:35:17 - [Wifi]: DefaultRequest
>> 11:35:27 - [Wifi]: DefaultRequest
>> 11:35:30 - [Wifi]: DefaultRequest
>> 11:35:39 - [Wifi]: DefaultRequest
>> 11:35:45 - [Wifi]: DefaultRequest
>> 11:35:48 - [Wifi]: DefaultRequest
>> 11:36:12 - [Wifi]: DefaultRequest
>> ...
>>
>> I can't see who they're from, however. I'm guessing that was added since
>> December 5th, which is the last time I updated my production grid (or maybe
>> I need to set something, so the addresses show).
>>
>> Given that my grid has a region that's a popular HG hub, and that many
>> people have taken copies of the gate I have out, that's configured to bring
>> them to my grid, I imagine that some of what I'm seeing are those gates
>> checking to see that my grid is up. However, I think the majority of it (in
>> addition to the ~80 gates to other grids) is likely to be the
>> "roller-coaster" I have set up in that region ... I have 100 Blamgates,
>> laying horizontally, up in the sky. There is a gate on the ground, that
>> rezzes you just above the first of them, and you fall into it. Then it sends
>> you to just above the next one, and so on, until you get to the last gate
>> which puts you back where you started. It's quite a wild ride that lasts for
>> about a minute. :) Anyway, all of them are of the "check the destination"
>> type of gate, so I imagine I'm doing most of it to myself. :) Oh, if you
>> ever want to try the roller-coaster, look for the gate labelled "101", in
>> Eld2. :)
>>
>> What might be nice is a simple way of turning off just this one message.
>>
>> -ste
>>
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