[cod] server not showing in browsing list

Bryan Kuhn bryan at infinityward.com
Mon Feb 2 23:11:33 EST 2004


We are going to fix this in the next patch. For now you will just have
to let them timeout on the master server.

Monday, February 2, 2004, 7:58:35 PM, you wrote:
> You probably need to have your servers off-line for ~2 hours.

> Q3 master server requires ~2 hours to drop a server from the list, so it
> makes sense that CoD master would require similiar amount of time.

> I mange 4 servers on one box and only the one on port 27960 was showing
> up in the master server list until I took the remaining ones off line
> for ~2 hours.  Presumably they were still in the master list as 1.1 
> servers. They were never down long enough during the changeover from 1.1
> to 1.2 to be dropped from that list.

> AFAIK the master server doesn't keep any information on a servers except
> address, protocol and maybe server type.  Clients request a list from
> the master based on a couple of qualifiers and recieve a bunch of ip
> addresses.  Then they ping each address the master sends to get the 
> details.  A command "getinfo" or "getstatus" is issued by the in-game
> server browser, or utils like ASE.  The amount of time it takes to 
> retrieve the details is the "ping" time.  If a 1.1 server replies to a
> 1.2 client, the answer is probably not formatted correctly and you end
> up with garbage in the game-browser.

> I guess the master server only populates the database of active servers
> the first time they hear from a game server.  Then they ping the game
> server every so often to see if it's still alive.  If they haven't heard
> from a server after a period of time (~2 hours) that server gets dropped
> from the list of active servers.  The next time it shows up again, it
> gets a new entry in the master server listing.

> Now a lot of that is conjecture and educated guessing based on Q3 
> experience, but it's fairly accurate.

> Dunno if they'll fix the master server...  I wouldn't say it's broke,
> you guys are just too fast at upgrading all of your CoD servers :)





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