[mohaa] Question about server

Tue Feb 18 06:22:45 EST 2003

All,

Thanks for all the help... It helped me a lot...
And you where all right in all the thinks, but I found out what the
problem is
 It’s not at my end, my servers/firewalls are configured ok.

The thing was that I saw in my tcpdump a heartbeat going out to port 27900
(gamespy heartbeat port) but there was no reply of that package. I
investigated this strange thing, and thought it was my firewall but when I
put the gameserver in the internet directly it did the same
. After
downloading a UDP ping program (HPING2 for linux) I found out that my
provider is dropping this port
 So if you ever want to host a gameserver
don’t go to a dutch provider called wanadoo
.

The next step I did is a gave my notice to wanadoo and I’m going to a
provider that is not blocking this

My thanks to you all for all the ideas and all the help. And no thanks to
wanadoo for all the sleeping I came short
 :-(

In a month i will go to that new provider so see you in a mounth on
gamespy...;-)

Greetz
Q

> you dont need to have machine directly connected to the internet.
> you can forward the required ports by gamespy (dont remember them....try
> google)
> if you forward the ports, it will work fine
> try to forward all ports that the server is running (12203, gamespy,
> etc) ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ben Knowles" <b.knowles at talk21.com>
> To: <mohaa at icculus.org>
> Sent: Monday, February 17, 2003 7:23 PM
> Subject: RE: [mohaa] Question about server
>
>
>> if you are behind a NAT it possibly will not see your machine at all.
>> You machine has to have an internet IP address, ie not one that begins
>> with 192.168, or 10. or the other one that no-one uses (Class B, cant
>> remember the number for it). It has to be on the other side of the NAT
>> for people
> to
>> see it and for it to be picked up by game spy. The ip address used by
>> your server is an internal ip address only and will not be seen by the
> internet.
>> Thats the way it is, so the best way to do this is to have your
>> machine running diectly connected to the internet, ie on the 212.
>> address. Hope im not talking out my arse. thats just the way I
>> understood how it worked.
>>
>> Hope this helps
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Steve Pirk [mailto:orion at deathcon.com]
>> Sent: 17 February 2003 21:04
>> To: mohaa at icculus.org
>> Subject: Re: [mohaa] Question about server
>>
>>
>> Either do not set net_ip, or set it to the external
>> address.
>>
>> --
>> Steve (egrep)
>>
>> On Sun, 16 Feb 2003, Quint van Drostagen wrote:
>>
>> > Thanks,
>> >
>> > But still not on gamespy... my port is open and my cfg file is ok
>> now...
>> >
>> > One more question. Is it so that a can't see myself on gamespy
>> because
> i'm
>> > behind nat????
>> >
>> > And i see the next things by my startup, is that promoted to
>> gamespy???
>> >
>> > You are now setup for medium mode.
>> > Opening IP socket: 192.168.1.1:12203 <---- nat adress
>> > Hostname: Firewall
>> > IP: 212.129.223.97 <---- real adress on the outside
>> >
>> > +set net_IP 192.168.1.1 <---- in startup script.
>> >
>> > Which of these are promoted to gamespy, because i can understand
>> that if
>> my
>> > internal ip is promoted gamespy is rejecting me....
>> >
>> > Thanks
>> > Q
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Well it's indiferent. Set, sets, seta and setu basically does the
>> same but with some special funcions:
>> >
>> > Set - set a variable
>> >
>> > Seta - sets the variable with the archive flag will save the last
>> setting to q3config.cfg and reload that setting every time you run
>> the game. Any changes to variables with an A for the class ID are
>> > automatically stored in q3config.cfg - this is for q3 but it's the
>> same
>> >
>> > Sets - sets the variable with the serverinfo flag, so it will be
>> transmitted from a server to connecting clients. (It will appear
>> when using the serverinfo command)
>> >
>> > Setu - sets the variable with the userinfo flag, so it will be
>> transmitted from a client to a server while connecting. (It will
>> appear when using the dumpuser command)
>> >
>> >
>> > André Rivotti Casimiro
>> >
>> > -----Mensagem original-----
>> > De: Quint van Drostagen [mailto:quint at kaleplek.net]
>> > Enviada: domingo, 16 de Fevereiro de 2003 18:30
>> > Para: mohaa at icculus.org
>> > Assunto: Re: [mohaa] Question about server
>> >
>> > Hi Andre,
>> >
>> > just a question if got in my config file  : seta sv_gamespy "1".
>> >
>> > Is this right or is it what you describe bellow : set sv_gamespy 1.
>> >
>> > Without the "" and de a from seta.
>> >
>> > Thanks
>> > Q.
>> >
>> > Met vriendelijke groeten,
>> > Quint van Drosthagen
>> > ----- Original Message -----
>> > From: "André Rivotti Casimiro" <rivotti at netcabo.pt>
>> > To: <mohaa at icculus.org>
>> > Sent: Saturday, February 15, 2003 9:15 PM
>> > Subject: RE: [mohaa] Question about server
>> >
>> >
>> > Hi Quint,
>> >
>> > There's two possible reasons:
>> >
>> > 1 - You didn't use the 'set sv_gamespy 1' option in your
>> > configure file.
>> > 2 - You are running behind a firewall and need to open the port
>> 12300.
>> >
>> > André Rivotti Casimiro
>> >
>> > -----Mensagem original-----
>> > De: Quint van Drostagen [mailto:quint at kaleplek.net]
>> > Enviada: sábado, 15 de Fevereiro de 2003 19:36
>> > Para: mohaa at icculus.org
>> > Assunto: Re: [mohaa] Question about server
>> >
>> > All,
>> >
>> > Many thanks for al the help. My server is up and running in the
>> background...;-)
>> >
>> > The only thing now is that he isn't available in gamespy... I don't
>> understand why... All my friends can connect dirrectly to my ip So
>> it is working... Is there a way to see if gamespy is accepting my
>> request???
>> >
>> > Is there a site to see what is happening????
>> >
>> > Thanks
>> > Q
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > > All,
>> > >
>> > > I think this 2 question is stuppid in you're eyes, but i'm getting
>> desperate. After 3 long nights (upon 4 o'clock in the morning)
>> still
>> > my
>> > > server is not up.
>> > >
>> > > Here are my questions :
>> > >
>> > > 1. When i startup my server everything is working fine, but the
>> server
>> > is
>> > > not shown in gamespy or in mohaa itself. Now you think oooh you
>> didn't open you're upd/tcp ports.. That's not the issue all the
>> ports (found
>> > on
>> > > several internet sites) are open. But to be sure here they are :
>> > >
>> > > ----------- iptables --------------------------------------- -A
>> INPUT -i eth1 -p udp -m udp --dport 12300  -j ACCEPT
>> > > -A INPUT -i eth1 -p udp -m udp --dport 12210  -j ACCEPT
>> > > -A INPUT -i eth1 -p udp -m udp --dport 12201  -j ACCEPT
>> > > -A INPUT -i eth1 -p udp -m udp --dport 12203  -j ACCEPT
>> > > -A INPUT -i eth1 -p tcp -m tcp --dport 12203  -j ACCEPT
>> > > -A INPUT -i eth1 -p tcp -m tcp --dport 12204  -j ACCEPT
>> > > -A INPUT -i eth1 -p udp -m udp --dport 12204  -j ACCEPT
>> > > -A INPUT -i eth1 -p udp -m udp --dport 13139  -j ACCEPT
>> > > -A INPUT -i eth1 -p udp -m udp --dport 27900  -j ACCEPT
>> > > -A INPUT -i eth1 -p udp -m udp --dport 6500  -j ACCEPT
>> > > -A INPUT -i eth1 -p udp -m udp --dport 6515  -j ACCEPT
>> > > -A INPUT -i eth1 -p tcp -m tcp --dport 28900  -j ACCEPT
>> > > -A INPUT -i eth1 -p tcp -m tcp --dport 29900  -j ACCEPT
>> > > ----------------------------------------------------------
>> > >
>> > > When i do an tcpdump to see what traffic is coming in and out is
>> see
>> > that
>> > > he has a connection to the master.gamespy.com
>> > >
>> > > Ok now you are getting blurry aren't you... I have the same thing,
>> and
>> > are
>> > > pulling my hair out...
>> > >
>> > > Just to be sure i'm sending also my config files (i'm dutch so if
>> you
>> > see
>> > > any dutch comment sorry) my startup script and an startupout.txt
>> to
>> > let
>> > > you see what is happening by startup. The stranges thing is that i
>> can connect to my own server, and my key is fallidated bij gamespy
>> (tried
>> > an
>> > > elegal key and got the error about cd-key).
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > PLEASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS Help me... I'm getting gray
>> > hairs....;-)
>> > >
>> > > ok now question 2... When i'm firing up the server i wont get back
>> on
>> > my
>> > > console. How can i do that so the server is running on background
>> (The
>> > &
>> > > doesn't help because the server is stop working then).
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > Thanx
>> > > Q
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