[crossfire] new metaserver

[Alberto Saez Lodeiros]

El Viernes 27 Mayo 2005 17:48, Brendan Lally escribió:

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      It looks like you mean that you have all ports other than 80, 21, and
     
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      6-whatever it is, blocked outbound. If this is the case, we would expect
     
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      that you have all inbound ports blocked (otherwise such a measure isn't
     
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      sensible.
     
     
Yes, we have all but 80, 21 and 6 ports blocked, but not only for inbound, too 
for outbound.

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      Such configurations are normally only found in highly locked down
     
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      environments.
     
     
I'm in a student's residence, which is connectted directly to the University 
Net (with a Debian server)

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      The new metaservers will use HTTP, this means that a webserver is needed to
     
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      be one. If you can run a webserver, you can run one, if you can access
     
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      other web servers then you can use them (but crossfire doesn't use HTTP for
     
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      server-client communications, so you won't be able to connect to a remote
     
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      server.
     
     
Do you mean something like an Apache server, using, by default, 8080 port?
I have my Apache server, but I don't know if other external people can access 
my computer using Apache, who is using 8080 port.

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      You seem to be in a fairly large internal subnet though, so you should be
     
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      able to run a server accessible in there quite easily. If you were to run a
     
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      metaserver internally, you would be able to script the fetching of the
     
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      server lists each day (or more frequently) and mirror them, propagating
     
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      your own custom metaserver list.
     
     
I play crossfire using a direct LAN connection between me and my residence's 
friends, internally.

What do you mean with propagate my own custom metaserver list?

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      This isn't useful though, since you wouldn't be able to connect to the
     
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      remote servers....
     
     
The "comunication" port between crossfire server and client can't be changed 
anyway? I have tried to use port 21, 80 and console returns me an error in 
the client side:

Can't connect to server: Network is unreachable

Is it because of the client configuration, the server configuration or the 
systen/net configuration? I have changed the server port in the server 
settings file. (I tried ports 21 and 80).

Thanks for your help.    :)
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