Thank you for the answers regarding the bots James! I’m not aware of any service providers blocking IPv4 resulting in an inability to play Netrek. I don’t have a valid “business justification” for IPv6 support other than being an IPv6 zealot with high regard for Netrek’s history in IPv4-land ;-) Darrell > On Apr 30, 2020, at 8:07 PM, James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org> wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 05:40:01PM -0700, Darrell Root wrote: >> Netrek-dev: >> >> 1) My Swift/MacOS Netrek Client version 1.2 was just approved by Apple AppReview, and is now available as an update in the MacOS App Store. >> The only change is that it fixes the “choose team” bug. While MacOS users will automatically within in a few days, I highly recommend manually updating in the MacOS AppStore if you are playing in tonight’s 6PM game on continuum. >> >> 2) Netrek-dev server bot question: When running a netrek server >> with bots, are the bots built in to the server? Or are the bots >> separate processes running on the server and talking to the server >> over the localhost network? > > Some robots use shared memory to interact with the server. > > Some robots use the network connection, which can be localhost or from > another host, depending on the configuration. > >> 3) IPv6: I’m under the impression that nobody has ever played Netrek over IPv6 because none of the netrek server codebases support IPv6. Is that correct? Asking for a friend… > > Yes, the code supports IPv4. As far as I can see there's no need to > support IPv6, but if you know of enough service providers blocking > IPv4, let me know. > >> Thanks! >> >> Darrell >> >> _______________________________________________ >> netrek-dev mailing list >> netrek-dev at us.netrek.org <mailto:netrek-dev at us.netrek.org> >> http://mailman.us.netrek.org/mailman/listinfo/netrek-dev <http://mailman.us.netrek.org/mailman/listinfo/netrek-dev> > > -- > James Cameron > http://quozl.netrek.org/ <http://quozl.netrek.org/> > _______________________________________________ > netrek-dev mailing list > netrek-dev at us.netrek.org <mailto:netrek-dev at us.netrek.org> > http://mailman.us.netrek.org/mailman/listinfo/netrek-dev <http://mailman.us.netrek.org/mailman/listinfo/netrek-dev> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.us.netrek.org/pipermail/netrek-dev/attachments/20200430/bfda7d47/attachment-0001.htm>