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GamingSA.com Call of Duty BEL <br>
203.13.37.47:28960<br>
GamingSA.com Call of Duty DM <br>
203.13.37.42:28960<br>
GamingSA.com Call of Duty SD <br>
203.13.37.58:28960<br>
GamingSA.com Call of Duty TDM <br>
203.13.37.38:28960<br>
GamingSA.com Call Of Duty TDM#2 <br>
203.13.37.60:28960<br>
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Cool IP range huh. Thanks allot for the assistance.<br>
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Bryan Kuhn wrote:<br>
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cite="mid1c4401c3eaa6$b78b5b60$3d00a8c0@infinityward.net">
<pre wrap="">We just restarted the master server an hour ago so that should have cleared
out the servers that were showing up wrong. What are the ips of your
servers?
-----Original Message-----
From: Adam Dixon [<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:adixon@adam.com.au">mailto:adixon@adam.com.au</a>]
Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2004 2:28 PM
To: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:cod@icculus.org">cod@icculus.org</a>
Subject: Re: [cod] server not showing in browsing list
I dont know about anyone else, However I am also having issues getting
my servers showing up. I did that 2 hour trick last night, and brought
them all up around 2 hours and 30minutes later, and then went and
refreshed the in game browser. It did indeed show up. However one is
still missing out of it, I have no idea why.
The only entry I have in master lists is the codmaster.
I can only see one of my servers in the ASE program ( out of 5, 2
windows, 3 linux all on different machines), I have no idea why that is
the case, do I need to add ASE as a master server also (I dont use this
program however many people seem to) Anyone care to give me info on that
at all?
They are called GamingSA.com COD * (where * is tdm, dm, sd etc etc)
Adam
Joe Brown wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Daniel M. Temme wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Tuesday 03 February 2004 14:20, Luke wrote:
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<pre wrap="">First, I follow your logic, Joe. But, that cant be how the
master server list works. If my server was only pinged by
the master server every two hours, then why is it that if
I terminate the server now and then use my in-game browser
two minutes later it doesnt show up? Apparently, their
must be more to the process than a two-hour list check.
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I may be wrong but I think that the client would try to ping the
server and just not show it if it isn't running.
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<pre wrap="">Right on Dan. The client pings each address in the list recieved from
the master. If it doesn't recive a reply from that ping or "getinfo"
command, the server isn't listed. Thought I said that, though.
Heartbeats (or pings) go out, from game servers every so often (about
once every 5 min.) to the master and the master also pings each server
about once ever 5 min. Not "only" once every 2 hours. With q3 it
takes about two hours to be dropped from the master's listing.
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<pre wrap="">If we assume the issue is that it takes two hours for an
upgraded server to time out from the master server than
why is it that one of my servers shows up correctly, and
did so from the very minute I upgraded the server? It was
only down for less than 10 minutes while I installed the
patch..... and this was the same ammount of time that the
other COd server in question was down, and it didnt show
up for an entire day. When it did, the info was all wrong?
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<pre wrap="">Probably the one running on port 28960. I have no idea why that one
is special. I guess 28960 is a magic number for CoD. :)
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<pre wrap="">Does anyone know what info is actually stored/used on the master
servers? It appears that all the filtering is happening client side
so there really wouldn't be much of a need to handle more then ip,
maxplayers and maybe gametype, OS and whether or not it's dedicated.
This prolly is a moot issue but I'm curious.
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<pre wrap="">It's not too hard to figure out, just takes some patients and a packet
sniffer. I haven't updated recon <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://recon.sourceforge.net">http://recon.sourceforge.net</a> to work
with CoD... It's written in the Python language using wxPython for
the gui interface. It is a game server browser for Q3. I use it to
watch CoD server status, but haven't udated it to work specifically
with CoD.
I used a packet sniffer to figure out how Q3 talks to
monster.idsoftware.com and deciphered the packets sent back and forth.
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<pre wrap="">For instance, why are 90% of the server for many, many
players reporting that their pings are one (1) in the
in-game browser, even though they are reporting everthing
else properly?
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This has irritated me, too. Since I got the cable line I'm getting
used to pretty good pings but all the 1's really didn't seem right
;). And it was actually quite a large ammount of servers showing up
with that.
Have a nice day
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<pre wrap="">I had problems with recon reporting pings of 1 also, at one time. The
problem occoured because some server somewhere was spitting out too
many packets and I had made no plan for extra packets in the code.
The extra packets threw off the timing of anticipated packets.
I'm getting the itch to do some hacking in Python, so I might update
recon to do CoD server browsing.
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