[mohaa] gamespy nightmare!

Thu Jun 19 15:48:12 EDT 2003

If its available on ASE its most likely running fine. Probably your firewall has one or more of the ports required blocked. I would make sure to add ALL the relevant ports to your tcp allow list in APF. Below is a link to a comprehensive listing of the ports involved with mohaa. You wont need to open them all....but there's the list.

http://www.mohadmin.com/nuke/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=13

Luke

-----Original Message-----
From: Neil A. Twa [mailto:neil at twastudios.com]
Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2003 3:47 PM
To: mohaa at icculus.org
Subject: RE: [mohaa] gamespy nightmare!

You can see my game?

> LoL, forgot you were one of the linux gurus on the list...   =)  I'm
> installing GameSpy on my machine now (at work).  I have ASE installed
> here and can see your game in it...
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Salsich, Luke [mailto:LJS at protectorgroup.com]
>> Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2003 3:21 PM
>> To: mohaa at icculus.org
>> Subject: RE: [mohaa] gamespy nightmare!
>>
>>
>> or try 'apf -flush' to remove all firewall rules. Then test the game.
>>
>> don't forget to 'apf -restart' after testing.
>>
>> Luke
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Bradley Caricofe [mailto:caricofe at comcast.net]
>> Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2003 3:12 PM
>> To: mohaa at icculus.org
>> Subject: RE: [mohaa] gamespy nightmare!
>>
>>
>> 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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