re: [GD-General] Online Gaming

[Brian H. <bri...@py...>]

>These are good and do hit some of the high spots. What I need=
 is
>more of the basics. A (game) client can't just post a query and=
 then
>block waiting for the reply from the server. I'm also trying to
>utilize the new zero config (rendezvous) stuff (which is easy
>compared to streams. ;-).

The canonical reference book on this is Unix Network Programming=
 by 
Stevens.  It's pretty much the de facto bible on TCP and UDP 
programming and it covers a lot of the really basic stuff.

Brian