From: Csaba Halász:
"By the way, I think something should be done about 02. It is way too
overused and seems to have some intermittent relaying problems (even
though it is supposed to have IP filtering now). I don't know if the
problems are caused by the overload or not, though. What do you think
about renaming it to 12? I suggest leaving its slot unused for some
time (so that people would realize it is down), and adding the new
server (which seems to have plenty of bandwidth) in 03's slot (which
has been down for a long time). Eventually some other server could
become 02. Reason: I think a lot of people ignore the location of the
servers and instead just start from 01 until they find a working one
and then just stick to it. So when 01 is down, I expect people to
switch to 02 and they stay there even after 01 is back. The situation
is made worse by the relay problem - people switch to 02 to see other
pilots reliably. Not to mention the rumor that some mac version
defaults to 02."
I'm not certain about either of the below two statements, so take them with a
grain of salt:
(1) 02 is filtering out North American IPs as a solution for the excessive
bandwidth issues. However, is this not also filtering out relay information
from 05 and 07?
(2) Doesn't a lot of the original documentation, as well as maybe wiki articles
or forum how-tos, etc., use mpserver02 as the "example" value to put into that
slot? Maybe we need to do a thorough search of all of the MP-related
documentation? Of course, if the concept of just filling in 02 is that
pervasive, then leaving that number unassigned for a while will definitely
drive home the point of "Find one that works best for you."
What about adding a button to FGRun which, when pressed, will ping all of the
available MP servers and automatically fill that slot with the one which
returned the fastest?
Cheers,
-R. (MD-Terp)
Robert M. Shearman, Jr.
Transit Operations Supervisor,
University of Maryland Department of Transportation
also known as rm...@umd.edu
________________________________
From: Csaba Halász <csaba.hal...@gmail.com>
To: FlightGear developers discussions <flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Sent: Thu, January 28, 2010 12:21:59 PM
Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] new MP server / Netherlands
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Brant Gipson <ioncannon21...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Contact the domain owner to get a subdomain like mpserver12.flightgear.org
Posting here usually qualifies as "contacting the domain owner" :D
By the way, I think something should be done about 02. It is way too
overused and seems to have some intermittent relaying problems (even
though it is supposed to have IP filtering now). I don't know if the
problems are caused by the overload or not, though. What do you think
about renaming it to 12? I suggest leaving its slot unused for some
time (so that people would realize it is down), and adding the new
server (which seems to have plenty of bandwidth) in 03's slot (which
has been down for a long time). Eventually some other server could
become 02. Reason: I think a lot of people ignore the location of the
servers and instead just start from 01 until they find a working one
and then just stick to it. So when 01 is down, I expect people to
switch to 02 and they stay there even after 01 is back. The situation
is made worse by the relay problem - people switch to 02 to see other
pilots reliably. Not to mention the rumor that some mac version
defaults to 02.
My suggestion applies only as long as we don't have a better solution
to the MP server choice problem, of course.
--
Csaba/Jester
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