[crossfire] new metaserver

[Mark Wedel]

Mitch Obrian wrote:
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      Cave's php metaservers are great. The sms's are sent
     
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      the data by the servers. They then send the info to
     
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      the cms which sends the info to the other sms's. This
     
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      way (since the sms's are trusted) the cms is unDoSable
     
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      as it's ip is unknown except for the trusted sms.
     
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      Since cave's metaservers are written in php they can
     
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      be hosted anywhere... including hosting companies with
     
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      near unlimited bandwidth.
     
     
  seems to me that making the CMS ip secret is just security through obscurity. 
  Once someone discovers that IP through whatever method, you lose that benefit 
- this means the CMS has to be secure on its own.

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      We should implement it, it has been written. It is
     
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      good. The time for discussing how it should be done is
     
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      passed as we allready have a product now.
     
     
  You discussed the metaserver/program before, however, when asked to provide 
link/URL, did not provide one.  Trying to search for info on it is pretty 
meaningless, as cave is just too common a word.