Re: [ggz-dev] gnome.ggzgamingzone.org down?

[Andreas Røsdal <andrearo pvv ntnu no>]

On Mon, 3 Aug 2009, Josef Spillner wrote:
> Am Samstag, 1. August 2009 11:33:31 schrieb Andreas Røsdal:
> > It seems that gnome.ggzgamingzone.org is down at the moment?
> > I can't connect to it using any of the gnome-games clients.
>
> I can confirm it's not reachable at the moment. There are only a finite number
> of solutions to this problem:
> 1) Find a server with 100% reliability. Unlikely to happen.
> 2) Implement server selection at application level by integrating support for
> the GGZ metaserver into the Gtk+/GNOME client, and have somebody to maintain
> the server list including fallbacks.
> 3) Implement server selection at the network level by having multiple DNS
> entries, and have somebody to maintain the DNS records.
>
> Bidirectional database replication is needed for 2+3. When we looked into this
> topic some years ago, it wasn't very feasible. Since then, a number of high-
> quality addons for databases have been released, so I'd say it's worth another
> look.
>
> In other news, us.ggzgamingzone.org is currently being migrated by its hoster
> to a new machine which is supposedly much stronger than the old one without
> being more expensive. I'm not sure if it should host the primary server, but
> at least it gives us the technical possibility now to implement a fallback
> server large enough to handle a couple of players.
>
> Josef


Ok. It seems that gnome.ggzgamingzone.org is still down. Will Roger be 
able to get the server online again?

I'll check with the gnome-games developers if they have any input on this.

 - Andreas