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StackAdder
Wanderer
Joined: 30 Sep 2003
Posts: 77
Location: United Kingdom
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 Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2003 6:23 pm
Dynamic mudserver reconnection
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Just a quicky.
As a Uni project I am working on a distributed mud server architecture, and as part of the load balancing scheme, I want to be able to tell a client to reconnect to a different server 9therfore diff address and port).
I think I can write a script to do this in ZMud (any suggestions of suitable scripts would be neat as I am currently not in ZMud scripting mode, however)
The real question is, if we get the dmsa working, is there any sensible way this sort of functionality could be incorporated into the protocols used (or is it already there...?)
This would, of course, also be of use in increasing mud robustness as well as (hopefully) improving latency issues and server balance. |
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Toetag
Magician
Joined: 10 Oct 2000
Posts: 356
Location: USA
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Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2003 8:35 pm
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The #SESSION command is probably what you are looking for:
Trigger:
Server tells you to reconnect. host: (*) port (%d)
Value:
#SESSION %1 %2
I made up that trigger btw, not sure what the server in your project might actually send.. |
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Rorso
Wizard
Joined: 14 Oct 2000
Posts: 1368
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Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2003 8:59 pm
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quote:
Originally posted by StackAdder
Just a quicky.
As a Uni project I am working on a distributed mud server architecture, and as part of the load balancing scheme, I want to be able to tell a client to reconnect to a different server 9therfore diff address and port).
I think I can write a script to do this in ZMud (any suggestions of suitable scripts would be neat as I am currently not in ZMud scripting mode, however)
The real question is, if we get the dmsa working, is there any sensible way this sort of functionality could be incorporated into the protocols used (or is it already there...?)
This would, of course, also be of use in increasing mud robustness as well as (hopefully) improving latency issues and server balance.
You probably want to look at the MXP protocol http://www.zuggsoft.com/zmud/mxp.htm
The <RELOCATE> tag listed there might be interesting  |
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StackAdder
Wanderer
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Posts: 77
Location: United Kingdom
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Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2003 5:52 pm
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ah yes thanks both - session will do nicely while testing and MXP implementation looks like a sensible option overall.
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