[Freeciv-Dev] Re: Meta server

[paulz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

On Tue, Oct 12, 1999 at 09:17:32PM +1000, David Pfitzner wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Sep 1999 Paul Zastoupil <paulz@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > I think we ought to change the default hostname for the metaserver from
> > www.freeciv.org to meta.freeciv.org.  That way it leaves us room to run
> > it on any machine and doesn't tie it to the webserver.
> > 
> > In anticipation of this idea being implimented (unless I am overlooking
> > something) I have already added meta.freeciv.org to DNS.
> 
> So it there any reason we shouldn't change the metaserver
> strings to use meta.freeciv.org for the 1.9.0 release?
> 
> That way if we ever do want to go to a new machine, then the
> less we have to worry about people still running 1.9.0 :-)
> 
> -- David

I really don't think there is.  I have already changed the link on the
web page to point to http://meta.freeciv.org/metaserver.  So in case
of disaster anyone who can add a /metaserver to their webroot could run
the metaserver.

--
Paul Zastoupil