[CF-Devel] metaserver tracking of clients by OS?

Fri Sep 10 13:46:43 CDT 2004

On Friday 10 September 2004 01:28 am, Mark Wedel wrote:
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      Rick Tanner wrote:

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      > Does anyone have any comments on using the metaserver script to profile

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      > what clients (and versions) by OS are connecting to (or logging in to)

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      > the public servers?

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      >

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      > What about concerns or questions with doing this?

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        Well, I don't think you can actually do that.

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        When the client connects to the metaserver, it does not send any

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      information about itself - rather, the metaserver just sees a connection

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      comes in and blindly sends the data.

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        You can actually try this yourself:

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      telnet crossfire.real-time.com 13326

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      (see bunch of data come back)

I'll jump in here, since this is really something I ask Leaf about.

Cleaning up the makefiles and what-not, I see there is a lot of kruft (imho) 
in the files.

I don't mean to start a flamefest, but, there is a lot of autoconf stuff for 
platforms I just don't see people running.  

I am just looking for something simple to track crossfire client operating 
systems.

My guess is that no one(?) is running the client on:

alpha-dec-osf
mips*-sgi-irix*

My guess is that no one(?) is running the gnome client, since it's even 
commented out of the build.

It comes down to if it works, why remove it vs If no one is using it, why 
support it?

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