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When you clicked the "Join Game" button in Diablo II, your client sent a query to the Index Server. It sent back a list: Game Name, Player Count, Ping, Difficulty. It was a directory service, a traffic controller for the early digital highway.

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Aggregating all hosted games within a specific "Gateway" (e.g., US West, Europe). When you clicked the "Join Game" button in

Why the distinction? In a system as massive as Battle.net (which handled millions of concurrent users across US East, US West, Asia, and Europe), a single point of failure is a disaster. The "Index Server" wasn't one machine; it was a cluster. For those looking for a "helpful piece" regarding

is the evolution of NGDP, designed to optimize: