PushButton Master Server 0.96
by Nathan Martin <nmartin@gmail.com>


Original ReadME:
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Ben Garney <bgarney@pblabs.com>

Howdy.

This is a very brief approximation of release notes.

The PBMS is licensed under the GPL.

The PBMS is being developed by:
	Ben Garney	      <bgarney@pblabs.com>	- Core app development
	Nick Quijano	<niuj@sourceforge.net>	- Mac OSX port
       Mike Kuklinski    <admin@kuattech.com>    - Windows/VC8 port
       Robert West        <robert@lscode.net>    - LoneStarCode Modifications
       Nathan Martin      <nmartin@gmail.com>    - Complete rewrite of master code, sessioning, and RAM store.

The PBMS consists of three modules:
	masterd		- server
	mbclient	- incomplete client
	network		- support layer

You need plib's NET and UL modules compiled and installed. You can 
get plib from http://plib.sf.net/ - the configure incantation to get
it to work if you don't have sound or graphics is:

Currently, this package is set up for Visual C++ 8 (express).

You will also need SQLite 3. You can get it from http://www.sqlite.com/.

mbclient doesn't really work at this point. :)

masterd will be in the masterd directory, ready to run, assuming
no errors pop up.

This is a prerelease of the source, so please check up on my plans in GarageGames
so that you can get the real, final package when it comes out RSN(tm).

Thanks for giving this a try!
Ben Garney
bgarney@pblabs.com

I have updated key components. I fixed up security holes, added flood protection, added a preference system, and added SQLite 3 support.

Mike Kuklinski
admin@kuattech.com
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 2011-06-08
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I have almost completely gutted out nearly everything and rewrote it all from
scratch. [Almost] everything has been changed to use the same data types that
Torque uses, such as instead of using unsigned int it is U32, etc..

masterd core -- new class MasterdCore to handle initialization and main thread
                management including better configuration/preferences handling.

Packet class -- cleaned up the integer read and write functions with ones that
                don't do per byte read/write, but array based I/O operations
                using readBytes and writeBytes(). The read/write functions are
                buffer size aware now to prevent any possible buffer underruns
                (read) and overruns (write).

TorqueIO     -- The network message type handlers have been updated to be more
                compliant with the torque game client, and resending of list
                packets actually does now work too. Also querying the server
                for game and mission types now works too.

Session      -- SessionHandler module has had, just like many other modules, a
                complete rewrite. SessionHandler is actually gone, but replaced
                with a class called FloodControl and its original purpose was
                to just keep track of remote hosts enough to ban any of them
                suspected of attempting a Denial of Service attack, but later
                on it was also useful to track the sessions of game clients'
                server query results too. Much better than recreating another
                class that does exactly the same thing as FloodControl and only
                track game server list query results. Also note that in the
                near future FloodControl will be renamed to something like
                PeerControl or PeerManager instead.

ServerStore  -- And ServerStoreRAM are the same thing right now. ServerStore is
                is currently only available as a RAM option as SQLite3 was
                already removed by MikeK, which is fine really cause SQLite is
                slow anyway. I pretty much rewrote this module to use the std
                map container to improve server record lookup time and makes
                it a lot easier to maintain than manually handling linked-lists.

MasterdTransport
             -- Solved odd non-responsive / infinite stall by having the class
                actually using poll() instead of ponding on recvfrom() all the
                time. Of course this means this code will only currently work
                on operating systems that support poll() such as Linux and BSD.

And other minor modifications to other files for improvement. This release is
not entirely bug free. ;-)

Nathan Martin
nmartin@gmail.com