Re: [VANILLA-LIST:2197] tools/players

["Carlos Y. Villalpando" <unbelver@brain.jpl.nasa.gov>]

Quoting sheldon@visi.com <sheldon@visi.com>:
> > On Wed, Mar 24, 1999 at 12:16:05PM -0600, Bob Tanner wrote:
> > > Why does tools/players get called every so often?
> > 
> > A lot of people (including myself) use port 2591 to get the player list.

>  That's how the metaserver contacts the server, and that would
>  happen every couple of minutes.  Correct?

The metaserver connects as a player unless we have try_alt_port
defined in the metarc, which we all do.  It'll try (port-1) first, and
will fall back to (port).

--Carlos V.