[Opensim-users] List of banned viewers for config files?

[Sarge Misfit]

Cool. SoaS hasn't updated to 0.7.4 yet, so I'm still running 0.7.3. No
worries, I can wait. Got way more than enough to do as it is :-)

On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 1:19 PM, Justin Clark-Casey <
jjustincc at googlemail.com> wrote:

> GetMesh and GetTexture should be fine in 0.7.4-rc1 (and probably earlier).
>
> I think the "may lead to poor performance" was rather cautious.  If
> anything, fetching via HTTP should lead to better performance since it's
> not generating lots of UDP messages that have to traverse OpenSimulator's
> UDP client stack (and hence appear to be able to hold up/crowd out other
> UDP messages in the process).
>
>
> On 13/08/12 18:42, Akira Sonoda wrote:
>
>> Hi Word,
>>
>> Because with those caps
>>
>> Cap_GetTexture=""
>> Cap_GetMesh=""
>> Cap_**FetchInventoryDescendents2=""
>> Cap_FetchInventory2=""
>>
>> you won't see any textures on prims ... meaning all prims will be
>> invisible. Only Singularity 1.7 has this problem and is therefore
>> banned
>> The same applies for the experimental Cool VL Viewer which will be on
>> the banned list as well.
>>
>> Once I am certain at least GetTexture and GetMesh won't harm, they
>> possibly can be also allowed. But right now i do what is written in
>> the comment of the OpenSim.ini:
>>
>>     ; This is disabled by default. Change if you see fit. Note that
>>      ; serving this cap from the simulators may lead to poor performace.
>>
>> Poor Performance ... I am sensitive on that .... and it is even worse...
>>
>> Take care
>> Akira
>>
>> 2012/8/13, drwhiet at spacefriends.de <drwhiet at spacefriends.de>:
>>
>>> Hi Akira,
>>>
>>> Why are you banning Singularity ?
>>>
>>> Best regards
>>> Wordfromthe Wise
>>>
>>> On 13.08.2012, at 00:25, Akira Sonoda <akira.sonoda.1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>  Hi Fleep,
>>>>
>>>> First, banning viewers is not a good thing, especially not on osgrid,
>>>> because osgrid is here for testing the OpenSimulator under real life
>>>> usage
>>>> and as far as i know OpenSim wants to support all of the viewers
>>>> floating
>>>> around.
>>>>
>>>> Buuuuut ... it is really annoying to have a sim crashing when you have a
>>>> party with some 15 to 30 people partying. Therefore I enabled on one of
>>>> the 50 sims i am maintaining, the following rules:
>>>>
>>>> AllowedClients="Phoenix|**Imprudence|Cool|Singularity|**
>>>> Firestorm|0.6.3"
>>>> BannedClients="Singularity 1.7"
>>>>
>>>> Those should support most of the used viewers:
>>>> http://www.flickr.com/photos/**akirasonoda/7769188218/<http://www.flickr.com/photos/akirasonoda/7769188218/>
>>>>
>>>> Firestorm is in, because many people use it. This is the riskiest part
>>>> because with my avatar i crash ( or at least produce ACK timeouts for
>>>> all
>>>> viewers ) the sims all the time using the latest Firestorm.
>>>>
>>>> If you have your own grid, then you can apply viewer restrictions on
>>>> grid
>>>> level.
>>>>
>>>> Take care,
>>>> Akira
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 2012/8/9 Fleep Tuque <fleep513 at gmail.com>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> I was wondering if anyone was willing to share their list of banned
>>>> viewers used in the config files for Opensim?  I don't know what the
>>>> latest and greatest bad viewers are (or really any of them since I don't
>>>> use them!), but if anyone has a good list, I for one would appreciate
>>>> the
>>>> info.
>>>>
>>>> For the record, I understand that the banned viewer list in the config
>>>> can
>>>> be overridden by a savvy griefer, so it's not air tight security, but I
>>>> figure any effort to combat it doesn't hurt..
>>>>
>>>> Thanks in advance!
>>>>
>>>> - Chris/Fleep
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Chris M. Collins (SL/OS: Fleep Tuque)
>>>> Center for Simulations & Virtual Environments Research (UCSIM)
>>>> UCIT Instructional & Research Computing
>>>> University of Cincinnati
>>>> 406A Zimmer Hall
>>>> 315 College Drive
>>>> PO BOX 210088
>>>> Cincinnati, OH 45221-0088
>>>> chris.collins at uc.edu
>>>> (513) 556-3018
>>>>
>>>> http://ucsim.uc.edu
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