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

[Reinier Post <rp@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jan 19, 1999 at 02:24:58PM -0200, Lalo Martins wrote:
> On Jan 19, Reinier Post decided to present us with:
> > 
> > If you want an A record, you need approval of the prerson maintaining
> > that A record, and the person maintaining the reverse map.
> > 
> > For example, you can't roundrobin www.freeciv.org to a machine of ours
> > without our sysadmin's approval.  I'm pretty sure he wouldn't approve.
> 
> Oh. Seems I don't know much about DNS. :-)

It may be possible technically; not politically.

> > I can't see how your solution would permit users to run their own
> > metaserver without intervention and approval of the local sysadmin.
> > Some members on this list are their own local sysadmins and have the
> > facilities to implement this, but it's a needless limitation.
> 
> OTOH, it can generate some ammount of traffic right? (not only for
> the server-metaserver communication itself, but for the
> metaserver-metaserver communication perhaps).

There isn't any.  The overhead is negligible.

It would try every server five times until it found one.
>From then on it would communicate with it normally, perhaps until the
server went down; the client might then try to contact the next server
on the list.

-- 
Reinier