[crossfire] new metaserver

[tchize]

Le Vendredi 27 Mai 2005 17:58, Mark Wedel a écrit :
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      Overall client process:
     
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      - get the metaserverlist from sf if possible and check signature. If
     
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      anything fails, fallback to cached list. If cached list fail, fall back to
     
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      static list
     
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       Note that this would seem to put a single point of failure on SF being up.
     
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       It often is, but doesn't always seem to be the case.
     
     
well if sf is down, the client use the cached mirror list. I don't think it's 
a problem for sf being down for even a few weeks, mirror list are mostly 
static (from time to time a mirror may be leaving the mirror list at admin 
request or a new one could appear, but am sure all mirrors will not disappear 
in just a few weeks)

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       However, looking at the proposal, I have a few questions/thoughts.
     
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       Since it seems that server admins will need to notify the metaserver admin
     
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      to be listed, and it seems that some amount of the dynamic data currently
     
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      listed won't be as up to date (due to timing, or perhaps not being
     
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      included), it seems that this isn't that far away from just having a static
     
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      HTML page that someone updates that is then replicated.  Which of course
     
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      isn't really what the metaserver is about.
     
     
I suggest to have metaserver only list the public servers. If clients want 
stats like number of player, server version and so on, we could have client 
connect to the server and request this from server instead of having 
metaserver tracking such information. This is how it is done on commercial 
quake-like games like (greb a list of ips from metaserver, and request 
informations from each ip).

This is all indeed about having a static file mirrored.

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       Just a thought - has anyone looked at what other games do (nettrek I think
     
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     would be one example) - presumably, some games have already put a lot of
     
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      thought into this - it could be simpler to just grab there server and
     
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      client code and go from there.
     
     
Indeed if something suitable exist on another GPL game, this could be usefull 
to reuse code

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