Protocol for server discovery

[dafrick]

Orxonox at the moment, can only discover servers that operate in the same LAN. Your task would be to establish a protocol to discover servers all over the internet.

For that we would need a deamon on our orxonox.net server where other servers could register themselves and a protocol to contact the orxonox.net server and get a list of the servers that have registered themselves there.

This is a job for someone who already knows a bit about network programming. This task will probably involve analyzing other protocols (used for this task) and using enet to implement an orxonox version of such a protocol.

Some maybe usefull links:

• ​http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Master_Server_Query_Protocol
• ​http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Server_queries
• ​http://int64.org/docs/gamestat-protocols
• ​http://www.codeproject.com/KB/game/gameserverinfo.aspx
• ​http://www.ggzgamingzone.org/

[rgrieder]

I believe this task has been done. Eventual enhancements can be issued in separate tickets.

[dafrick]

Agreed.