[mohaa] gamespy nightmare!

[Bradley Caricofe]

Man, I would think if iptables or ipchains were running then the game itself
would be inaccessible as well.  You could try this at an SSH command line:

cd /etc/rc.d/init.d
./iptables stop
./ipchains stop

Then restart game and see if it does anything differently.  I don't run
iptables on my game servers anyways, I don't want to have to muck with a
firewall everytime I add new games.  I'll see if I can find any info from
when we had a similar problem with GameSpy...

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Salsich, Luke [mailto:LJS at protectorgroup.com]
> Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2003 3:09 PM
> To: mohaa at icculus.org
> Subject: RE: [mohaa] gamespy nightmare!
>
>
> did you run 'tcpdump port 12300' and 'tcpdump port 12203' ? This
> will give you an idea of whether the server is sending data on
> the game ports.....it helped me to narrow my focus on the issue.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Neil A. Twa [mailto:neil at twastudios.com]
> Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2003 3:11 PM
> To: mohaa at icculus.org
> Subject: RE: [mohaa] gamespy nightmare!
>
>
> I have not changed the IP on my server since the BETA1 I was
> running expired.
>
> I downloaded the BETA5 and untared it. Since then, the game starts up and
> no one can get to it.
>
> I am running APF firewall from r-fx and realized I did not have the ports
> set. So I opened all the ports listed on the previous chain and still I am
> not seeing any traffic.
>
> The game is running, but no one can connect :/
>
> Not sure what else there is to do. Ideas?
>
> 216.127.82.86:12203 is the IP.
>
> Thanks!
>
> > yeah, I actually did change the ip of both games when I rebuilt the
> > server. I heard that was an issue, but five days later? Do you have info
> > on this?
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Bradley Caricofe [mailto:caricofe at comcast.net]
> > Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2003 2:47 PM
> > To: mohaa at icculus.org
> > Subject: RE: [mohaa] gamespy nightmare!
> >
> >
> > 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!"
> >> >
> >> >
>
>
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