Re: CF: crossfire.org (was: Telnet-interface for 0.95.1)

[Scott MacFiggen <smurf@csua.berkeley.edu>]

>On Wed, 20 Jan 1999, Christian Stieber wrote:
>> [...] So players would, for example, access
>> http://www.crossfire.org/servers.cgi and get a list of servers.
>
>Just out of curiosity, I checked if the domain name crossfire.org
>existed already, and it does.  There is even a web site on
>www.crossfire.org.  It is not currently maintained, but they say
>on the home page that they intend to keep it anyway.
>
>Maybe we could convince them to give us the domain name.  But then
>we would have to do something about Jehovah and Lucifer in the
>game...  See http://www.crossfire.org/stmarys.htm

As stated, crossfire.org is taken, as well as crossfire.com
and crossfire.net (although crossfire.edu seems to be free).
Maybe an alternate approach to the metaserver idea is to
go peer-to-peer. Have a set of 4 or 5 metaservers that each
keep a list of working metaservers. Then if one is taken
down, the other 4 update thier internal server list, and
if a new metaserver comes online, add it to the list.
Then when clients connect, they have a set of default servers
that gets updated each time they connect to a metaserver..

I can think of two places where metaservers can be brought
up right away, crossfire.activesw.com (Where I work) and
crossfire.csua.berkeley.edu... 

Or, someone could just register crosfire.org or something
instead...

Anyway, just a thought.



	-Scott
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