UKTerrorist interviewed with Renton and inphinity about their new project, Esoteric. What is it? Put simply, it's a program that scans gaming servers for WonIDs, IPs, aliases and similar info. This information is then added to the Esoteric database, which can then be viewed via the web. Sounds like big brother!
How exactly does esoteric work?So nice!
inph0r: Esoteric is a database core with plug-in modules. The basic modules are: A scanner that scans, logs and categorises wonids, aliases and IP addresses. An IRC bot is so that people can query wonids during games through the use of halfirc and a php driven webby.
Renton: The way it works is simple. It sends an rcon status to servers at a set interval (around 60 seconds or so) which returns information from the server, such as | Name - Wonid - Frags - IP etc | which is all filtered in by esoteric and added to the database which can be accessed via web page or on Quakenet IRC.
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