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[VANILLA-L:990] Re: [VANILLA-L:982] Need a fix or prevention



On Aug 5, 18:38, Bob Tanner wrote:

[translated hex time to string:]
Thu Aug  6 01:24:25 1998: usock: updated by whitestar.advantest.com (192.84.20.10)
Thu Aug  6 01:26:25 1998: usock: updated by whitestar.advantest.com (192.84.20.10)
Thu Aug  6 01:28:25 1998: usock: updated by whitestar.advantest.com (192.84.20.10)
Thu Aug  6 01:30:25 1998: usock: updated by whitestar.advantest.com (192.84.20.10)
Thu Aug  6 01:32:25 1998: usock: updated by whitestar.advantest.com (192.84.20.10)
Thu Aug  6 01:34:25 1998: usock: updated by whitestar.advantest.com (192.84.20.10)

This is every two minutes...

>Is this normal? What cause this, since all the other servers are not
>doing it?

As far as I know the server should update the metaserver _only_ when
it's state has changed (with a minimum delay of two minutes).
It seems this server is doing it as often as possible, probably also if
unnecessary.

>How can I stop it?

I don't think the metaserver has blocking facilities yet for the UDP
updates from the server (except that it ignores servers if they update
too quickly -> might be a good starting point for writing some blocking
code).

Cheers, Frank

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