[quake3] [BUG?!] Server list sometimes incomplete

Dirk noisyb at gmx.net
Sun Jul 22 06:56:31 EDT 2007


Thilo Schulz wrote:
> On Monday 16 July 2007 03:54, Dirk wrote:
>> Nope, it isn't. Also servers that are perfectly fine get filtered. If
>> you sort the view alphabetically you can reproduce the bug with almost
>> every click on refresh.
> 
> I have had this bug too. I already tried to debug it as well. As soon as you 
> refresh the server list, the engine sends a ping request to all servers 
> reported by the master server. I tcpdumped this and noticed that all servers 
> get pinged, but not all servers actually reply. I tested this with xqf as 
> well, but all servers responded there. Nevertheless, I didn't follow this 
> further as I had not heard reports of the same problem back then and thought 
> this might be a connection tracking issue of the Linux kernel, as I use the 
> internet over another Linux router. Reading these reports here I am not that 
> sure anymore. I might look again into this problem when I get the time.
> 

and PLEASE!!!!... make allowdownloads enabled by default (in the
client)... I have seen too many people connect and disconnect...

Thank you!



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