Re: Bolo T-racker

[Robert Uhl]

qartl <qa...@a51.mi1> writes:

> After many years of faithful service, the bolo tracker at bolo.usu.edu
> was retired a number of months ago. nuBolo relies on a fairly tight
> interface with the tracker to get UDP/IP games going, so this is a
> feeler to see if anyone might be able to start a new tracker service on
> a Unix host. The code is fairly simple straight C, and the overhead is
> extremely small. One proviso is that the tracker needs its own static
> IP, shouldn't be behind a NAT or DHCP firewall, and has to talk on
> high-number UDP ports. Any interest?

I might be persuaded, but I'd be more comfortable were the code in a
more safe language. Is there protocol documentation?

--
Robert A. Uhl

[Robert Uhl]

> No, but it is pretty simple. It keeps a list of games and listens on
> port 50000 for UDP packets. One is a request for the game list, which
> it then sends. Another is a "what is my real IP:port?" request from a
> nubolo client wanting into or starting a game. Finally the tracker
> periodically pings game members to get the game stats needed to update
> the list.

Throw me the code--I'll see if I can come up with an equivalent and we
can test it out (I don't play Bolo anymore, so cannot test it myself).

--
Robert A. Uhl