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Subject: [Freeciv-Dev] Re: Meta server
From: Jeff Mallatt <jjm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 12:36:58 -0400

At 1999/10/12 10:40 , paulz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>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 :-)
>
>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.

I agree.  I think it would be nice to have this in 1.9.0.

jjm


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