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To: rf13@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Reinier Post <rp@xxxxxxxxxx>, freeciv-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx, bugs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [Freeciv-Dev] Re: civserver option -s, --server HOST dont work (PR#1291)
From: Mike Kaufman <kaufman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 14:09:24 -0500

On Tue, May 14, 2002 at 09:04:30PM +0200, Raimar Falke wrote:
> 
> > 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?!

I think just ifdefing the relevant parts out would be best, unless there's
consensus that we should not put this capability back intot the metaserver

-mike


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