[crossfire] new metaserver

[Mitch Obrian]

I could run the meta-metaserver if you wanted...

--- Mark Wedel <
     
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      tchize wrote:
     
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      > Le Jeudi 2 Juin 2005 09:20, Mark Wedel a écrit :
     
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      >>1) Has someone agreed to run the metametaserver? 
     
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      What about the slave
     
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      >>metaservers?  While all this looks nice, if you
     
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      don't have people willing
     
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      >>to run it/take care of it, it is all pretty
     
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      pointless.  For the
     
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      >>metametaserver, I'm thinking more of the Tanner's,
     
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      since they currently
     
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      >>hold the main crossfire home page, but of course,
     
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      the metametaserver could
     
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      >>move someplace else (not as sure how many people
     
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      have as stable and ip
     
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      >>address and network connection that they do).
     
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      > That's were a static list on various website is
     
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      usefull, easy to place 
     
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      > (crossfire.sourceforge.net could be a place to
     
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      hold the list)
     
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        Yes, but a static list != metaserver.  That is a
     
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      seperate issue.  Certainly, 
     
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      having static lists isn't a bad backup plan, but
     
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      isn't really the same thing.
     
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      >>2) having the clients connect to the various
     
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      servers to get stats like
     
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      >>current number of active players is IMO an extra
     
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      level of complication that
     
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      >>can be done without.  If we have a dozen active
     
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      servers (which was actually
     
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      >>low if I recall), you probably don't want to do it
     
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      sequentially - that
     
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      >>means it coudl take a significant amount of time
     
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      to go through them all. 
     
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      >>Especially if one is down or unresponsive.  this
     
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      means you need to do it in
     
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      >>parallel, and writing that threaded code is a bit
     
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      more complicated.  Add to
     
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      >>the fact that the client would then have to send
     
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      some commands and parses
     
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      >>the responses from the server. I just don't see
     
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      any reason that dynamic
     
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      >>info shouldn't be included.
     
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      > could be done in udp (send a packet to each server
     
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      than wait 2 second for any 
     
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      > response)
     
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        udp is probably not a good option.  Most peoples
     
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      private firewalls will 
     
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      probably not work in that setup without changing the
     
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      configuration (they'd need 
     
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      to be modified to let the return udp packet through
     
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      the firewall).  So from a 
     
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      client perspective, we really want to just stick to
     
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      tcp.
     
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