[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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