Wont stay online

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 3:26 am

I am creating a dedicated server.... One problem. I can get it to read on LAN, but it wont connect to the master. It keeps saying "killing user" and "noone there, taking a nap". I have it set to "1" on the talk to master section. Can someone tell me where I am supposed to put my IP and where I am supposed to leave it be? Furthermore, can anyone tell me why it reads on LAN but not on the master list? At least from another computer.
Thanx,
Tic'

Post by **Lucifer** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 3:32 am

Several things. First, killing user just means it's logging out of the master server. No one there means there are no players on your server, in which case it goes to sleep and waits for someone to join. So based on that everything looks fine.

Check the master server browser and tell us if you see your server. You should see it. It might be marked unavailable to you on your LAN (a known bug you just have to work around right now), but you should see the name at least. So scroll down through the whole list.

If you don't see it, then make sure you've forwarded port 4534 from your router to the server. If you don't do that, nobody can connect anyway so the master server delists you if it had you.

For everyone else: Where should we have our FAQ? I'm inclined to put it on the wiki. If I do that, can we get a link to it from the main website and the forums? No offense intended, but I'm getting kind of tired of fielding this same question every time someone wants to run a server. Since we don't have an FAQ, we should make one, even if this is the only question in it.

(I'll go ahead and make it on the wiki pretty soon anyway, we can move it if we need to)

Phytotron · Post by **Phytotron** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 3:56 am

continuing OT: I think it might be best to have a stand-alone FAQ page, itself subdivided into categories. Have links to it on the main armagetronad page (instachat URL, afterall), main forum page, and the wiki.

I also say, start a topic for "What should be in the FAQ?" May as well throw in the ones in the docs that come with the game, too. No one seems to read any of that.

Post by **Lucifer** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 4:18 am

No one's gonna read the FAQ anyway.

We're just going to tell people to go read it when they ask questions that are on it.

Phytotron · Post by **Phytotron** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 4:24 am

Yeah, I know. But it's the same deal as the wiki. At least when some new person starts asking basic questions in-game, I can say "go here [press F12] and read the wiki" or, perhaps in the future, FAQ. Surprisingly, I've had a pretty good record of them at least saying "ok" and leaving. Your guess is as good as mine as to whether they actually went and did it, but I know a few have who have reported back.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 5:25 am

I will try these things... My IP shows up on the server list, but it shows up as "unreachable"... It shows up on the LAN as available. Hmmm, maybe I am crazy, I don't know. I'll find out soon.
Thanx,
Tic'

Post by **Lucifer** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 5:36 am

Ok, if you tell us the name of your server, I'm sure some fine soul here will attempt to connect to it. It does periodically happen that when you run from the LAN, your server will appear unavailable in the master server browser when in fact, other players can connect to it just fine.

So naturally we'll need to test it. Which server is yours?

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 6:34 am

Much thanx... the server name is.... get this... {NiN.Ticbug.~} Test Server

Website · Post by **Z-Man** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 8:31 am

I can't see it right now, but if you saw its IP in the master server browser, that means the master server was able to ping it for a while. Are you on dynamic IP? You need to restart the server every time your IP changes to give the master server the updates. If you set DEDICATED_IDLE to 1 in the configuration files, that will happen semi-automatically.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 1:29 pm

my IP stays the same.... and dedicated idle is set to 10....

iceman · Post by **iceman** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 1:34 pm

unreachable usually means that your firewall is blocking access

if this is so then you will need to alter the settings to allow incomming/outgoing access to the dedicated server app

dedicated idle setting is how many hours the server will be idle before shutting down, you have it set to 10 hours

if you want your server to stay on set dedicated idle to 0

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 2:40 pm

I have fixed the "unreachable" problem. My firewall is disabled for the time being.... So is norton. Norton kept telling me I had a WORM. The server shows up solid on the server list, on one computer. It shows up on the LAN game list, on the other, but not on the master server list. Also, when I go online, Armagetronad.net, it doesn't show<--- of course you have seen this.
I will make the change to the idle thing...
Thanx,
Tic'

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 5:12 pm

Ok, so I have another firewall... one I forgot about. The one in my router. I need to go there and set up a DMZ.... Not there right now, but will be, this evening. I shall get back to this later.
Thanx,
Tic'

belenus · Post by **belenus** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 5:40 pm

{NiN.Ticbug.~} wrote:I need to go there and set up a DMZ....

I would suggest, instead of setting up a DMZ (which will forward all not specified ports to the DMZ server), to just create port forwarding information in the router configuration. Just forward TCP and UDP packates to the port the dedicated server listens on to the IP of your server running AA.

That will leave the other ports of the server blocked to the internet.

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