[mohaa] gamespy nightmare!

[Bradley Caricofe]

True that it's good to be listed, I don't like the idea of a poorly-written
app hogging resources in the background on my machine so I never use it.  I
remember though, a similar problem with it where new SOF2 and MoHAA game
were taking a long time to show up in it after being restarted...  Hey, you
didn't by chance change the IP of the game when you were rebuilding your
system?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Salsich, Luke [mailto:LJS at protectorgroup.com]
> Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2003 2:39 PM
> To: mohaa at icculus.org
> Subject: RE: [mohaa] gamespy nightmare!
>
>
> Im not the one using Gamespy......the gamers are - and the in-game
> browser is powered by Gamespy so the information on both are the same.
> Hey, I don't like Gamespy much myself, but the facts are if you aren't
> listed in it - you aren't going to get a ton of gamers on your servers.
> That's what concerns me as I was averaging over 4,000 joins a week...
>
> I have to figure out this heartbeat issue!
>
> Luke
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bradley Caricofe [mailto:caricofe at comcast.net]
> Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2003 2:26 PM
> To: mohaa at icculus.org
> Subject: RE: [mohaa] gamespy nightmare!
>
>
> Gamespy sux...  I'd use ASE or in-game browser before it...
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Salsich, Luke [mailto:LJS at protectorgroup.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2003 12:59 PM
> > To: mohaa at icculus.org
> > Subject: RE: [mohaa] gamespy nightmare!
> >
> >
> > ok. I ran tcpdump on the major ports related to mohaa and Spearhead
> and
> > believe I have at least identified the problem. The Gamespy
> 'heartbeat'
> > port (which is responsible for listing the server) is 27900. On the
> > server that wont show in Gamespy there is no tcp activity on port
> 27900.
> > On an identical game server I run that DOES show up in Gamespy there
> is
> > periodic (every minute or so) activity on tcp port 27900 - which is
> > exactly what I would expect from the heartbeat port.
> >
> > So.....I think this Gamespy heartbeat is initiated from my server with
> > the cvar 'set sv_gamespy 1', right? Well, its definitely in the .cfg
> > file. Any thoughts?
> >
> > Luke
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: tomte at traci.pr0nst4r.net [mailto:tomte at traci.pr0nst4r.net]
> > Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2003 9:52 AM
> > To: mohaa at icculus.org
> > Subject: Re: [mohaa] gamespy nightmare!
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 09:49:04AM -0400, Salsich, Luke wrote:
> > > nope. Definitely no firewall installed. thanks for the suggestion,
> > > though.
> > >
> > >
> > Have you check if there is any traffic going in gamespys direction ?
> > ie. running tcpdump port <whatever post mohaa uses> to check if there
> is
> > any traffic at all. That way you atleast find out if its the
> > mohaainstallation
> > or a networking problem.
> >
> > // Richard
> >
> > --
> > "Artificial Intelligence is no match for natural stupidity!"
> >
> >