[Freeciv-Dev] Re: civserver option -s, --server HOST dont work (PR#1291)

[Raimar Falke <hawk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 11:48:18AM -0700, Reinier Post wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 05:27:59PM -0800, ma_wo@xxxxxx wrote:
> > Full_Name: Matthias Wolle
> > Version:  1.12.0-0.1 debian woody
> > Distribution: Debian binary
> > Client: Gtk+
> > OS: Debian GNU Linux woody (testing)
> > Submission from: (NULL) (217.89.130.236)
> > 
> > 
> > the civserver option -s, --server HOST doesnt work 
> > I have tried to override the host specfication, but nothing changed
> > 
> > I called civserver with tis options:
> > civserver -s little.homedns.org -f
> > /usr/share/games/freeciv/scenario/earth-80x50-v1.sav -r
> > /home/matthias/freeciv/1civ2.serv -m -q 60
> > 
> > metaserver tells my system as host92147072.cablelink.de and not as
> > little.homedns.org 
> > -s IP dont work too
> 
> Many versions ago, the metaserver code itself (which is not distributed
> with Freeciv) was changed to ignore the hostname supplied by the user,
> and use the hostname it can derive by itself instead.
> 
> This is probably an improvement: after all, you don't want users to
> lie about their hostnames.

> A better idea is to make the metaserver verify whether the supplied
> hostname is valid for the IP number it knows.
> 
> This has been broken for so long, it isn't urgent; but if someone
> wants to fix the metaserver please let us know.

Another way is that the user can pass extra text as a command line
argument which is always included in the server message.

Nevertheless the current command line argument -s is missleading and
wrong. Comment out or remove it?!

        Raimar

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