login server idea..
Im wondering if a good way of handling this might be coming up with a few different login servers, then making a quick VB frontend that wil ping/test the connection to the login servers from a list file, then give you a green light on each one and adjust the eqhost.txt file accordingly based on your loginserver choice, it could even launch eqlogin, or just run eqw or eqgame patchme at that point. Almost a slightly modified version of eqlogin that would check the login servers first. That way if one was down, you have the choice of a couple of others. You could make it easy to add new login servers so whoever wanted to host one could just post the name/ip, and it could be added to the lookup list.
We can come up with some type of workaround, but we're not going to have the kind of uptime that Verant has, and its not good to take down all online access when one server goes down.
Just an opinion.
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