[cod] What is the secret behind masterserver-list?

Guðmundur Örn Ingvarsson Gudmundur.Ingvarsson at landsbanki.is
Mon Feb 4 04:41:32 EST 2008


Personally I don't belive it has anything to do with the port you use.

It's most likely a combination of response time from the amster and popularity.
If I was a game dev "Putting myself into their mindset" I'd do it like that.
If I was me I would not base rating on master response since that would rate servers
Closer to the master better than any others.

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From: Rick Payton [mailto:rick at mai-hawaii.com]
Sent: 2. febrúar 2008 05:31
To: cod at icculus.org
Subject: RE: [cod] What is the secret behind masterserver-list?

It would appear some people (like me) still have to play the "Find the magic port" game. Out of 1395 servers, I'm still not listed.

Maybe I didn't open the right ports? Is there an archive for this list, I know the relevant ports have been posted before ....


Rick Payton

I.T. Manager

Morikawa & Associates

(808) 572-1745 Office

(808) 572-6323 Fax

http://www.mai-hawaii.com/

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From: Donald Stephens [mailto:donald.stephens at activant.com]
Sent: Tue 1/29/2008 5:36 PM
To: cod at icculus.org
Subject: RE:[cod] What is the secret behind masterserver-list?
I actually kept playing with it trying to get better positions. I ended up with 28939 and 28940 for my 2 servers.

In this order.
I would stop the server.
change the port called in my startup script
change the router port redirect
restart the server
check the audit tool
if it didnt work i moved to the next port number in sequence. I started with 28930 thru 28940
I did this nonstop until i got excellent on one server and verygood on another.

I waited only as long as it took to restart the server and check the audit tool to see that the master server position changed.

I noticed my servers in close proximity to each other within 5 minutes of starting the servers again. They are even showing for me on the first refresh on the first page.

#UF#KILLSTREAK and #UF#WARZONE.

-Don

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From: Rick Payton [mailto:rick at mai-hawaii.com]
Sent: Tue 1/29/2008 6:17 PM
To: cod at icculus.org
Subject: RE: [cod] What is the secret behind masterserver-list?
How long did you have to wait before they should up, was it instantaneous? Or did you wait awhile to fire up the server, or did the server just appear after awhile? I tried a new port, but admittedly I was impatient, and barely waited a minute before hitting the audit tool (and subsequently changing back to the default port).

Changing the sv_maxrate setting wouldn't affect a potential listing would it? I have mine set to 7500 normally, so as to not max out my connection with a potentially loaded server.
Rick Payton, I.T. Manager
Morikawa & Associates, LLC
(808) 572-1745 Office
(808) 572-6323 Fax
www.mai-hawaii.com<http://www.mai-hawaii.com/>
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From: Donald Stephens [mailto:donald.stephens at activant.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2008 8:38 AM
To: cod at icculus.org
Subject: RE: [cod] What is the secret behind masterserver-list?

Wow. I just finished doing this and damn if it didn't work. I ended up setting my two servers ports to 28965 and 29999 and their in the top 2k now.


-Don

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From: Dax Douglass [mailto:dax.douglass at gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, January 28, 2008 7:05 AM
To: cod at icculus.org
Subject: Re: [cod] What is the secret behind masterserver-list?

Think I said this earlier, but here it is again....

1.  Change default port
2.  Check Master server positioning using http://www.anarchic-x.com/cod4master/audit.php
3.  If "Very Good" then you are done.  If "Very Poor" start at step #1.
On Jan 28, 2008 9:58 AM, Geoff Goas <gitman at gmail.com<mailto:gitman at gmail.com>> wrote:
those do not do anything

On Jan 28, 2008 9:57 AM, Steffen Tronstad <sttr at nextgentel.com<mailto:sttr at nextgentel.com>> wrote:
Put this in your server cfg:

set sv_master1 "cod4master.activision.com<http://cod4master.activision.com/>"
set sv_master2 "cod2authorize.activision.com<http://cod2authorize.activision.com/>"
set sv_master3 "cod2master.infinityward.com<http://cod2master.infinityward.com/>"
set sv_master3 "cod2update.activision.com<http://cod2update.activision.com/>"
set sv_master4 "master.gamespy.com:28960<http://master.gamespy.com:28960/>"
set sv_master5 "master0.gamespy.com<http://master0.gamespy.com/>"
set sv_master6 "master1.gamespy.com<http://master1.gamespy.com/>"
set sv_master7 "clanservers.net<http://clanservers.net/>"
set sv_gamespy "1"
set sv_lan "0"

It's supposed to help :)



Med vennlig hilsen / with kind regards

Steffen Tronstad

BroadPark Games drift

NextGenTel AS, part of TeliaSonera Group

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