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This is an XML based service which allows clients to connect to select between several servers, without having to manually configure all of them. Meta servers operate in networks and keep themselves consistant automatically, so that both a broken GGZ server and a broken GGZ Meta Server doesn't annoy that much. Meta servers can be installed quite forward, no further configuration is necessary - all of the initial setup is read from a single read-only configuration file named metaservconf.xml. However, during operation a cache file named $HOME/.ggz/metaserver.cache is created which contains the URIs of other meta servers, so the network can grow dynamically. The metaserver allows for write access for all domains (combination of class and category) which are explicitely marked as such. It runs on port 15689. You can get ggzmetaserv as part of the GGZ utils package.