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Re: CF: Servers

Jettero Heller wrote:
> Why not have a "meta" server, to which the Xfire servers report, then
> have the client contact the meta (optionally); and select a server from
> the meta-list.

We did this with Netrek.

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.

The metaserver keeps an in-memory list of servers, backed by a
checkpoint file.

The clients contact the metaserver for the list.

There's even a port on which the metaserver returns the list in an HTML
table format, for use with web browsers.  Have a look at

http://metaserver.netrek.org:1080/

We are currently adding multiple DNS translation to the clients, so that
they can contact any of the three metaservers using just one DNS host
name.

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