Re: CF: Servers

To: crossfire@ifi.uio.no
Subject: Re: CF: Servers
From: Christian Stieber <stieber@informatik.tu-muenchen.de>
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1998 12:06:20 +0200
In-Reply-To: <360824B5.590ECF8E@stl.dec.com>; from James Cameron on Tue, Sep 22, 1998 at 10:29:09PM +0000
References: <199809221825.OAA10909@corky6.dyn.ml.org> <360824B5.590ECF8E@stl.dec.com>
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James Cameron (cameron@stl.dec.com) wrote:

> The sequence is that each server sends a short text UDP packet to a list
> of metaservers every time a player logs in or logs out of the server,
> subject to a minimum timing limit.

What happens when the server crashes? Seems like the server would have
to send a list of all players whenever something changes, _and_ send
the empty list when it is started. Also, my watchdog patch could be
used to send "I'm alive" packets (or the current player list) to the
metaserver, so the metaserver can remove servers that have crashed but
didn't restart.

All this is assuming that there are no bad guys.

Christian

-- 
Christian Stieber        http://www.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/~stieber

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CF: Servers

From: Jettero Heller <jettero@corky6.dyn.ml.org>

Re: CF: Servers

From: James Cameron <cameron@stl.dec.com>

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