Re: [Freeciv-Dev] request for Freeciv metaserver to be moved

[Lalo Martins <lalo@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Jan 17, Reinier Post decided to present us with:
>   Dear list & metaserver maintainer,
> 
> The Freeciv metaserver is down again.  I don't think the author plays
> Freeciv anymore.  Would it be possible to move the metaserver to a more
> reliable location?

Suggestion: wherever it is moved (or even if it isn't), how
about giving it the intuitive alias "metaserver.freeciv.org"?

> During Christmas holidays I started working on a patch to support multiple
> metaservers.  There's no need for anything fancy.

Maybe we shouldn't bother the client about that? Just roundrobin
metaserver.freeciv.org and make the client try to connect x
times (where x is configurable, defaulting to 3 or 5), each of
them looking up again so the roundrobin alias gives a different
result...

This is more or less how openprojects work:
irc.{debian,redhat,...}.org CNAME irc.openprojects.net and
irc.openprojects.net roundrobined to 20+ IPs.

Perhaps we could distribute the sources of the metaserver too,
so people could run their own?

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