PvPGN is an OpenSource battle.net based server thingiemajig so that you can play SC, D2, War3, etc without going through Blizzards servers. Seems like a neat idea if you want to have a localised gaming service for these games since it also has an inbuilt ladder, statistics, etc.

Thought I'd pop it up here as it could interest any game server admins which may or may not frequent these forums. Not sure what the legal eagles at Blizzard think about this though.

From the web site;

PvPGN is software that emulates the Blizzard Battle.net (TM) server. It is a modification of the bnetd server which aims to provide support for all Blizzard clients. It gives you the power to run your own server, manage your own users, run your own tournaments etc.

The PvPGN ( or Player versus Player Gaming Network ) is a bnetd based gaming network server emulation project. It currently supports all Battle.net (TM) clients, such as StarCraft, Diablo II, and Warcraft III. The list of supported clients and their minimum verion required is:
- Diablo 1 v1.09
- Starcraft v1.08
- BroodWar v1.08
- Warcraft II Battle.net (TM) Edition v2.05
- Diablo 2 v1.10
- Diablo 2 LOD v1.10
- Warcraft III Reign Of Chaos v1.13*
- Warcraft III Frozen Throne v1.13*

Didn't the guys who made bnetd get sued into the ground by Blizzard?

bored aussies ftw..

pretty sure blizzard would claim illegal, but it would be an interesting court case because they've legitimately reverse engineered it, so who knows.

Better grab it and the source quick before Vivendi sue them into oblivion.

Didn't the guys who made bnetd get sued into the ground by Blizzard?

Yeh BNetD and FSGS pretty much got obliterated by Vivendi. But the code was still out there, and from memory it was all open source?

AUS-1 is running again as well.

untill it emulates WoW i'm guessing Blizzard couldn't give a s*** anymore

they've legitimately reverse engineered it

how do you mean?

bored aussies ftw..

whats your name on there so i can own you?