[crossfire] Additional metaservers

[Rick Tanner]

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Hello,

To clarify on the additional metaservers added in r19878 and r19879,
they are for redundancy purposes.

As things stand now, clients and servers are not configured to query
one metaserver vs. another based on their geographic location or other
settings.

If you want a quick lookup for all the metaservers, visit:

http://crossfire.real-time.com/ms/

As for why the additional metaservers?

This takes some of the stress off of me for server reboots and other
maintenance tasks as game clients will still have other metaservers to
query. And hopefully having an additional metaserver on a different
continent helps with availability and reliability as well.

The secondary US based metaserver
(http://metaserver.us.cross-fire.org/meta_html.php) is still hosted
here at Real Time, but resides on a different physical virtual machine
node then the "primary" metaserver
(http://crossfire.real-time.com/metaserver2/meta_html.php)

As for the new domain name, cross-fire.org - it was a domain that was
available and is related to the project name, so that is why I used
it. Plus I hope it helps to avoid|reduces the confusion of when much
of when the game resources (wiki, forum, etc.) were first deployed and
the project still did not have a designated domain name and I used the
metalforge.net domain name and a "temporary" measure.

BTW, I have checked. crossfire.net is for sale for $30000.00 USD.


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