Am Dienstag, den 10.06.2008, 13:46 +0200 schrieb Gerfried Fuchs: > * Jelmer Vernooij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-06-10 01:42:18 CEST]: > > It would be nice if tetrinet-server supported announcing itself over > > avahi so it was easier to find a server in a LAN environment. > Are you really serious? tetrinet-server doesn't seem to work properly > in a LAN environment (see <http://bugs.debian.org/282957>), it doesn't > ship any init.d scripts that would make it run automatically, and it's > currently extremely minimalistic (and will propably stay that way). Yep, I am :-) I'm playing tetrinet regularly inside LAN situations and we've never had problems getting the server to start. Maybe we're using an older version or something.
At the moment, we always have to shout the IP address to everybody who is joining, it would be nice if we could avoid that. > Out of curiosity, how would you make it annouce itself over avahi? Is > dropping a file into /etc/avahi/services/ enough for that, or would the > program to need to do anything special, too? If it's the latter, please > notice that the binary is currently only 23k big (on powerpc) and > depends only on the libc6 - adding additional dependencies isn't > something that is appreciated. It would involve linking to libavahi and a couple of extra lines inside tetrinet server but it should be possible to disable this at compile-time. Cheers, Jelmer -- Jelmer Vernooij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://samba.org/~jelmer/ Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
