>>I was wondering if the source of the metaserver is available somewhere >>(probably yes ;-) > > > I haven't checked, but it should be on ftp://ftp.netrek.org/pub/netrek > somewhere. I just walked the entire tree again and could not find it. Maybe i'm blind... >>What ports must be opened and what checks are done before it is >>added to the list? > > > If a random player can get to the list, so can the metaserver. I dont quite understand this statement?! Dou you mean the metaserver attempts to contact my server at TCP port 2591 to request a list of current players? It should be able to do that... > There are two ways to get on the list. > > 1) You ask us to put you on the list, and we edit our config files. ;-) of course. I'd like to ask for nl.netrek.org to be added, but first I am curious what makes the automates setup fail. David Watson (Volcane) also wondered why eurotwinks.netrek.org didn't get listed a while ago, so it is not just my server. > 2) Your netrek server itself adds itself to the lists through a > process called metaserver solicitation. In the docs directory > on your server, look at the file called sample_metaservers and > make a file called .metaservers in the netrek root directory. The file existed and was filled in according to the given example: ehb > cat /usr/local/netrek/.metaservers metaserver.us.netrek.org 3521 60 120 nl.netrek.org B 2592 2593 open metaserver2.us.netrek.org 3521 60 120 nl.netrek.org B 2592 2593 open metaserver.eu.netrek.org 3521 60 120 nl.netrek.org B 2592 2593 open I'm running Vanilla-2.9pl8 on Sparc64 NetBSD 1.6.1. What I wanted to check in the metaserver code was if maybe it does a DNS lookup and checks that against the given server address? In my case that would fail since it yields different results: ehb > nslookup nl.netrek.org Non-authoritative answer: Name: www.shadowhunter.org Address: 62.21.236.245 Aliases: nl.netrek.org ehb > nslookup 62.21.236.245 Name: 062-021-236-245.ADSL-ECON.PN.NL Address: 62.21.236.245 Help me out here plz. Greetx, Erik _______________________________________________ vanilla-metaserver mailing list vanilla-metaserver at lists.real-time.com https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/vanilla-metaserver