[crossfire] new metaserver

[Andrew Fuchs]

On 6/16/05, Brendan Lally <
     
     b.t.lally at warwick.ac.uk
     
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      Yes, Server intercommunication could then be done at the proper level, so that
     
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      shouts could go between servers.
     
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      Then tell would act in a similar way to jabber.
     
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      eg,
     
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      tell 
      
      leaf at crossfire.metalforge.net
      
      
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      or
     
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      tell 
      
      mikeeusa at cat2.dynu.ca
      
      
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      with a missing @ obviously implying a local tell.
     
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      possibly there could even be interserver postal service, and interserver
     
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      querying of 'who' output (I don't know if that would be considered a good
     
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      thing)
     
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      I'm inclined to say even interserver balance transfers, although that would
     
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      allow lots of potential for abuse....
     
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Yes, but if if a whitelist of servers is used (along with
encryption/signing) it would be feasable.

There is also the posibility of playerfiles being transfered between
servers (or  more likely stored in a central database); so if there is
enough load we could have:  "metalforge1" + "metalforge2", and/or
"cat2-1" + "cat2-2", with each set of servers working together, but
independant from the other set.

This is not needed now, but could be useful in the future.

Besides IMO encryption is needed atleast for the player's passwords
with the current client -> server protocol (could allow plaintext
passwords for backwards compatability though).

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Andrew Fuchs