Re: quake3 opportunistic portrule

[David Fifield <david () bamsoftware com>]

On Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 10:55:10PM +0200, Toni Ruottu wrote:
> That would not be possible as many master servers are used for
> multiple games simultaneously, but it also would not be correct.
> Version detection is supposed to tell the protocol and possibly the
> version of the server, but not what the server is used for.
>
> When the master server is asked to provide server addresses for a game
> version it is not aware of it will send an empty list, so the version
> detection probe and matchline should work even when the master is not
> aware of any servers for protocol 68.

Okay, I agree with you. I added the probe.

> We should probably call the protocol dpmaster instead of
> quake3-master. Setting the product name probably does not make sense
> unless we find a way of identifying different implementations of the
> protocol. For example, if we could find a difference in Dpmaster and
> the server IdSoftware wrote, we could use product names to underline
> that.

I changed it back to quake3-master because I think dpmaster is a
specific implementation. I'm not sure that quake3-master is the best
name either, but it makes sense if the protocol was introduced with
Quake 3. (I don't know if it was.)

David Fifield
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