[pio-general] Re: Hosting the meta-server

[Roland C. <rc...@us...>]

On Wednesday 07 December 2005 20:03, Jeff Breidenbach wrote:
> Steve Langasek wrote:
> > > if someone has a reliable server and is interested 
> > in hosting this, I'll be happy to redirect the DNS name
> > (hey, that's why the alias is there).

> Well, 216.218.240.194 should be reasonably stable. This
> is a CCCP-hosted machine in the Hurricane Electric
> datacenter in California. I'm not willing to volunteer it
> permanently and forever, but it can probably run fine
> for some indefinite period.
Jeff, your metaserver is allowing the creation of new games, I don't 
know if you intended that. It is also a metaserver version 1.1, and 
you create gnocatan games (0.8) instead of pioneers games (0.9).

I'm also willing to run the metaserver for Pioneers.
My firewall should be able to handle the metaserver. I allow it to 
create at most 5 games. It is running version 1.2 and I can keep it 
very up to date if/when changes are made.
The only downside: it is a Pentium-100, so it is not very quick when 
playing games, but it should be more than fast enough to handle 
external games.
I don't know exactly how the DNS will be rerouted, I have a fixed 
name, and a dynamic number: cc402954-a.groni1.gr.home.nl (currently 
82.73.126.86)
My firewall is turned on 24/7. The last time I took it down was when 
its uptime exceeded 400 days, so its running quite stable.

> I just installed a stock sarge gnocatan-metaserver
> with no configuration adjustments. Is that appropriate?
That would be more appropriate for gnocatan.debian.net, not for 
pioneers.debian.net

> More importantly, will the computer quickly go down in
> flames with this configuration?
Traffic should not be too much. If you don't want to allow the 
creation of games, uninstall the pioneers-server-console package, and 
restart the metaserver.

Regards,
Roland Clobus