2 out of 10 servers showing in in-game browser

[xchosen0nex]

Hello fellow server admins,

I have a somewhat odd problem on one of our dedicated boxes.
The machine is windows 2003 SP2 dual 3,2Xeon with 4GB memory

We have 5 servers running of which only 1 or 2 show up in the in game browser. Ussualy just 1 actually. Always the one wth 28960 port.

First off i would like to note this is not a port forwarding issue as we run absolutly no firewalls and the server is hosted in a datacenter.

As a test we have put 10 servers online. All identical installs. upon starting the servers sometimes around 5 servers will show up in game. But after 20-30 minutes all servers will have disapeared.

Some things i noted.
The servers are started in the following order.
server1:28960
server2:28961
server3:28962
etc, etc


After the servers are started in this order multiple will show up, but never all. 20-30 minutes later all servers except 28960 and 28961 have disapeared.

No matter how many servers i start only 2 will eventually linger in the in-game browser. All servers are however accessable trough direct connect or programs like hlsw. Also adding them to favorites in-game works fine.

Command line variations used:

CoDWaWmp.exe +set dedicated 2 +set net_ip 123.123.123.123 +set net_port 28960 +exec server1.cfg +map_rotate

CoDWaWmp.exe +set dedicated 2 +set net_ip 0.0.0.0 +set net_port 28960 +exec server1.cfg +map_rotate

CoDWaWmp.exe +set dedicated 2 +exec server1.cfg +map_rotate

And some other variations were tried..


I really hope somebody can help me. The public servers are used for our community site but its kinda usseles if nobody can find them.

Any idea's or comments are welcome.

Thank you kindly for reading.

[orphenshadow]

Yeah, i think the same thing is happening to our server, we can have 6 ppl in it, and no one will join. If we are lucky in 3 days we catch a lucky break and it will populate, then we are off the master list again and it empties out.

This is a pretty bad issue, it plagues cod4 1.7 and apparently world at war.