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

[Lalo Martins <lalo@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Jan 18, Reinier Post decided to present us with:
> > 
> > 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...
> 
> Both require control over DNS.  I wouldn't want to make the running of
> Freeciv metaservers depend on the local sysadmin's approval.

Uh? How so? If I want to an A record pointing to a machine,
AFAIK the sysadmin doesn't need to do anything. What have I got
wrong?

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