Verify your server is listed on Activision's master list

[rudedog]

If for some reason you do not think you server is being listed on the official server. You can verify by heading to

http://stats.callofduty.com/index.php

Enter your server name or IP address. You can also look for players as well

[swiss]

Thanks for that dude

[Butch]

In my config I have listed:

//
//Master Servers
//
sets sv_master1 "cod2master.activision.com"
sets sv_master2 "master0.gamespy.com:28960"
sets sv_master3 "master1.gamespy.com"
sets sv_master4 "cod2authorize.activision.com"
sets sv_master5 "cod2master.infinityward.com"
seta sv_gamespy "1"

I have restarted the server several times and still cannot see in the In Game menue or at the above link.

I tried set instead of sets too.

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks, Butch

[rudedog]

Is your server being run behind a router? If so you will need to open the correct ports for it to show up in the ingame browser and the master server list, linked above

[Butch]

No I rent my server from a GSP.

I have Game Switching and usually play UO.
Tomorrow I'll switch to COD2 and allow to run all day.
Maybe it will show than.

Thanks,
Butch

[rudedog]

Try changing this
//
//Master Servers
//
sets sv_master1 "cod2master.activision.com"
sets sv_master2 "master0.gamespy.com:28960"
sets sv_master3 "master1.gamespy.com"
sets sv_master4 "cod2authorize.activision.com"
sets sv_master5 "cod2master.infinityward.com"
seta sv_gamespy "1"
to this:
//
//Master Servers
//

seta sv_gamespy "1"

[Butch]

Boy do I feel stupid. I had the Filters set to not show empty servers.

Thanks for helping!!

Butch

[rudedog]

Thanks for letting us know.

It's always the simple things we over look, glad you got it working

[Hind-d]

A number of servers are suffering from the 1.3 patch, as their servers aren't listed. I've attached a tool that was created by a fellow UO1 member, El Diablo. It basically issues a query to cod2master.activision.com.. the server then returns the list of servers.

Prior to the 1.3 patch we were consistently in the 1-30 range on game-monitor.com. Now we're in the 700 range. We think part of the problem has to do with how slow our server lists in the in-game browser. Sometimes it's not there at all and other times, when it is listed, it takes over a minute.

Does anyone have any idea as to how the server list is created? Is a newly created server simply appended to the end? If so, what happens when a top server reboots? Is it then added to the end, or does it retain its spot?

PM me if you would like the source... it's VS.Net 2003, C# code

TIA.

Hind-d

[OldDog]

Does anyone have any idea as to how the server list is created? Is a newly created server simply appended to the end? If so, what happens when a top server reboots? Is it then added to the end, or does it retain its spot?

No clue. I noticed, even with your utility, that every time I do a "refresh" my server's postion changes, varying anywhere from 8-or-so-hundred to 3-or-so-thousand. It's got to be some sort of polling thing from the master server, so I think it's probably luck of the draw.