>* Did Anyone make a server to handle iincomming connections to the MUD, and > make all that socket blocking stuff like ident and gethostbyname etc.. ? > And afterwards passing the user to the real mud with the informations it > just extracted ? If you want to cut out the middle server stuck in between, you can have the mud accept the connections, but vfork and exec a special program which does the ident and dns lookup. If you are worried about forking, you might want to test it before forgetting about it. On an 8 MB 486 Linux system, the average load runs consistantly at 0.00. From experience, it requires quite a few connections in a row to make the load change, and even handles intentional spamming quite well. I remember someone on the list mentioning before that Sojourn was adding or had a separate server to handle connections. Eric
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