my server no longer shown on q2servers.com

[Golgo13]

I see one server, 71.190.92.212:27910, Golgo13's Lithium CTF.

yea, i dunno dude. those are just acknowledges from the masters i thought. you're better at techical jargon. i just put what was showing in my console.

[VaeVictis]

I see one server, 71.190.92.212:27910, Golgo13's Lithium CTF.

yea, i dunno dude. those are just acknowledges from the masters i thought. you're better at techical jargon. i just put what was showing in my console.

then don't act like you know what you are saying, it is extremely counter productive to getting anything at all fixed

every man is a wise man until they open their mouth, keep that in mind

[QwazyWabbit]

I see one server, 71.190.92.212:27910, Golgo13's Lithium CTF.

yea, i dunno dude. those are just acknowledges from the masters i thought. you're better at techical jargon. i just put what was showing in my console.

I don't know what this means. You didn't answer any of my questions about your servers and IP's. I am telling you I see one server in your name on the q2servers.com active servers list. If you have more, tell us what they are named and what their IP's are. If they are hosted on the same computer you are going to have problems if you don't properly configure them and open your ports on your router for them.

You appear to have only one valid server active and listed.


The server/master handshake looks like this:

server                 master
           ->ping->             server pings master until it receives ack
           <- ack <-
                                     
master prepares to poll server

master polls server periodically once it has listed the server as active:

           <- ping <-         master pings server to see if it's alive
           -> ack ->          server is alive
 
          <- status <-      master asks for game status
           -> print ->       server sends game status and variables (player list, etc.)
           <- ack <-

Between pings and status dialogs, every 5 minutes the server sends a heartbeat frame to the master.

        ->heartbeat ->
           <- ack <-

... repeat

If this handshake fails the master will not list the server. It can take several tries before a master will list a server as active since this all occurs on UDP and delivery is not guaranteed by the protocol.

At server shutdown the server sends a "shutdown" frame to the master and terminates the process and the master deletes the server from the list. The server does not expect an ack to the shutdown frame. The master will delist the server immediately if it receives the shutdown frame but if it doesn't receive the shutdown frame it can take 10 minutes for the master to delist the server. If a server crashes unexpectedly the master will delist the server after it fails to receive acks to its pings.

What you will see in your console if this is all working as expected:

Ping acknowledge from 173.236.101.34:27900
Sending heartbeat to 173.236.101.34:27900
Ping acknowledge from 173.236.101.34:55708
Ping acknowledge from 173.236.101.34:55708
Ping acknowledge from 173.236.101.34:55708
Ping acknowledge from 173.236.101.34:55708
Ping acknowledge from 173.236.101.34:55708
Ping acknowledge from 173.236.101.34:55708
Sending heartbeat to 173.236.101.34:27900
Ping acknowledge from 173.236.101.34:55708
Ping acknowledge from 173.236.101.34:55708
Ping acknowledge from 173.236.101.34:55708
Ping acknowledge from 173.236.101.34:55708
Ping acknowledge from 173.236.101.34:55708
Ping acknowledge from 173.236.101.34:55708
Sending heartbeat to 173.236.101.34:27900
Ping acknowledge from 173.236.101.34:55708
Ping acknowledge from 173.236.101.34:55708

[Golgo13]

I'm not the OP. (original poster). i was just sharing information with the OP on the masterservers from my config. i only host 1 server. it is a local one. i have no problem with seeing it in the q2server browser.

 fish is having problems. i just figured he didn't have the right master servers in his config. there seemed to be a little confusion as a result .. my mistake. disregard that. so now that's out of the way, you can concentrate on his issue.

[QwazyWabbit]

Sheesh. I didn't pay close enough attention to the threading. I hate web forums for that reason. One of these days someone is going to invent a way for web forums to display threaded posts.

Fishxz can use the information from my last post to figure it out, I'm sure.

[fishxz]

I'm not the OP. (original poster). i was just sharing information with the OP on the masterservers from my config. i only host 1 server. it is a local one. i have no problem with seeing it in the q2server browser.

 fish is having problems. i just figured he didn't have the right master servers in his config. there seemed to be a little confusion as a result .. my mistake. disregard that. so now that's out of the way, you can concentrate on his issue.

"setmaster master.q2servers.com" what is wrong with this master server? i posted this on my 1st post.

[The Happy Friar]

One of these days someone is going to invent a way for web forums to display threaded posts.

It exists.  When people view stuff in non-thread mode they don't realize you're not talking to them, and when they view it in threaded mode they don't see every post that's made unless they click to view every single one.

But it is handy.

[QwazyWabbit]

I'm not the OP. (original poster). i was just sharing information with the OP on the masterservers from my config. i only host 1 server. it is a local one. i have no problem with seeing it in the q2server browser.

 fish is having problems. i just figured he didn't have the right master servers in his config. there seemed to be a little confusion as a result .. my mistake. disregard that. so now that's out of the way, you can concentrate on his issue.

"setmaster master.q2servers.com" what is wrong with this master server? i posted this on my 1st post.

There is nothing wrong with that server. But you need to view the list of servers on http://q2servers.com/ or with R1ch's Quake2 Server Browser, a Windows application.

If you keep seeing nothing but heartbeat messages then your firewall settings are incorrect. You must open the Quake2 server port (27910 by default) for UDP inbound and outbound.

[yahoo]

btw.. thanks for setting up that vortex server fish.

Actually i think it started last month that sometimes i cant see ur server particualrly de-vortex an q2servers. However after an hour or day it just shows up again. Quite rare though.

[Golgo13]

there are no other vortex servers. (or not many)it's a nice service to have.

[fishxz]

thanks to all for the help. i found the problem. any of my server connected and disconnected all the time form anticheat server (dunno why), so i got a ban from the masterserver. i already talked to r1ich and the servers should show again soon!

[Golgo13]

anyone want to explain this nonsense with qsb? show on q2servers but not the qsb servers app.

[Zeppelin]

can u stop digging up 3 year old threads?

[yahoo]

heheh

[|iR|Focalor]

anyone want to explain this nonsense with qsb? show on q2servers but not the qsb servers app.

Might help if you described what you mean by "nonsense".