On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 12:00 PM, Andrew Armitage <and...@thirdlife.org>wrote:
> What? > > Exactly, you missed the whole thing. Messing with the master servers was never an option, treating complete URL:s as "non-responding servers" does not work for obvious reasons and while polling the string from the server itself might seem like an good idea, it really is not. -The G Björn Rohlén wrote: > This might not be as easy as it sounds. SAF might look something like this: >> - Did user add by hostname or ip4/ip6? store accordingly, no reverse >> lookup. >> - If user added by hostname, resolve and store ip and hostname >> accordingly, >> reverse lookups still useless. >> - Solve the problem with not sending a whole barrel of queries from the >> users favorite list when some crazy bastards have a hundred or so of them, >> click the fav-tab and whine to no end when 15-30 of them no longer >> resolves >> and the oddities that follows due to timeouts. >> >> Now.... >> >> Possibly letting the user update the stored static ip if s/he chooses to, >> or >> do it slowly in the background (awesome, more threaded bugs, leaks and >> overcomplicating things). Confusion from "casual" players with the >> updating-process commences. DNS-problems yet another point of failure when >> people are trying to play online. Should masterservers be rewritten to >> allow >> server operators to list their hostname on them to serve the clients? >> Obviously this would be a very bad idea, so we´re back to favorites. ALL >> OF >> THIS for manually adding hostnames to favorites? >> >> Oh yeah, this will be fun. >> >> -The Gryzowrg >> On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 8:54 AM, Andrew Armitage <and...@thirdlife.org >> >wrote: >> >> This would make the lives of server admins a LOT easier. >>> >>> Moving the server from one machine to another, for upgrades, extra >>> capacity >>> etc. has always been a nightmare, and it takes ages to get our irregular >>> players back.Victoria Conlan wrote: >>> >> >> >>> If they all remembered us by name then it would be a doddle! >>> >>> A >>> >>> >>> On 25/06/2011 01:02, Guy Watkins wrote: >>> >>> The hostname should be in a CVAR and returned when the server is >>>> queried. >>>> It could be displayed in the browser without ever looking it up, but no >>>> need >>>> to display it in the browser, since you know the IP address at this time >>>> and >>>> can connect to it by IP. However, when you save it in favorites, it >>>> should >>>> save the hostname if one exists in the CVAR. >>>> >>>> Maybe the browser could display the hostname when you hover over an >>>> entry? >>>> >>>> This was talked about before on May 10 2010 relating to IPv6. The >>>> subject >>>> was: "IPv6 Support" >>>> >>>> Like this: >>>> sv_hostname=myserver.com:27016 >>>> >>>> Guy >>>> >>>> >>>> ______________________________****_________________ >>> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, >>> please visit: >>> http://list.valvesoftware.com/****mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux<http://list.valvesoftware.com/**mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux> >>> <**http://list.valvesoftware.com/**mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux<http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux> >>> > >>> >>> ______________________________**_________________ >> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, >> please visit: >> http://list.valvesoftware.com/**mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux<http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux> >> > > > ______________________________**_________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/**mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux<http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux> > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
