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Master Server Problem

by Nick Merrill · in Torque Game Engine · 06/26/2004 (7:19 pm) · 20 replies

Alright, so I have a realmwars build here. Pretty much the straight dope, with an addition to make terrain stop repeating. That's it. I set up a dedicated server, and have it look for the master, which it does just fine. My master server is the PERL MS (which I highly reccomend). The dedicated server sends the heartbeat, the master server receives the heartbeat. So that's good, but when I fire up the .exe aned go to query the master, nothing happens. All components are on my PC. Any ideas? Thanks. :)
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Associate Kyle Carter
#1
06/26/2004 (9:05 pm)
Have you tried dumping the network traffic using Ethereal or strategically placed printf's?

Torque Owner Nick Merrill
#2
06/27/2004 (9:51 am)
Hm, how might I do that?

Associate Kyle Carter
#3
06/27/2004 (10:21 am)
For the former, a quick google or freshmeat search should get you to the right place.

For the latter, find the code that deals with server queries (probably in engine/game/net) and start putting Con::printf's in various places, then start checking the console log to see what's going on.

Torque Owner Nick Merrill
#4
06/27/2004 (8:14 pm)
Well after that tip (sorry for being such a newbie) it seems that it isn't querying the master correctly. Vauge, I know. More specifically, when I query the master, nothin' happens. What could be causing that?

Associate Kyle Carter
#5
06/27/2004 (9:49 pm)
Got the game strings matched up? Querying for the right versions and all? I'd compare the data the server is sending the master with the data the client is querying the master with.

Torque Owner Gonzo T. Clown
#6
06/27/2004 (11:49 pm)
Make sure your port is set correctly. Somehow a long while back my port pref got deleted and was not being saved in the prefs export, took me a few days to figure ou the reason I couldn't see my own LAN or see myself on the master was because I had no

$Pref::Server::Port = 28000;

Check that and see if you have a problem there. If not, let us now and we can examine some other problem possibilities.

Torque Owner Nick Merrill
#7
06/28/2004 (9:22 am)
I seem to have the $Pref::ServerPort=7777 (I'm using the PERL MS).

@ Ben: Ok, being a newbie still... how would I do that? Sorry :P Thanks again all :)

Associate Kyle Carter
#8
06/28/2004 (10:42 am)
Nick: I'd add some printf's, like I said above.

Torque Owner Nick Merrill
#9
06/28/2004 (3:42 pm)
I did, and the whole problem is that, for whatever reason, the client cannot query the master.

Associate Kyle Carter
#10
06/28/2004 (4:06 pm)
So what are the printf's showing you?

Torque Owner Nick Merrill
#11
06/28/2004 (4:24 pm)
Nothing, tha'ts the thing. I have a printf that tells me when the client queries the server. When the client should query the server, though (when I click the query server button), it doesn't output anything.

Associate Kyle Carter
#12
06/29/2004 (12:15 am)
Need more printfs! On client, and master, to see if packets are sent/received. If need to turn on trace() in the console to see what script calls are going on.

Torque Owner Nick Merrill
#13
06/29/2004 (8:04 am)
Ok, thanks, will do :)

Torque Owner Nick Merrill
#14
06/29/2004 (8:14 am)
Ok, did that. Confermed that the problem is with querying the master server. Here's what I get when trace is on

[truncated]
rw/client/ui/joinServer.gui (331): :: queryMasterServer - wrong number of arguments.
[/truncated]

Could that be the problem? Do you want the whole readout of what it says when I hit "query master?"

Thanks.

Associate Kyle Carter
#15
07/01/2004 (7:58 am)
That would indeed break it. If you pass the wrong number of arguments the method won't be called!

Torque Owner Nick Merrill
#16
07/01/2004 (9:23 am)
Yeah, my inferior newbie brain figured that out after I reread my reply. Let me copy + paste from joinServerGUI.gui

function JoinServerGui::query(%this)
{
   echo("query master");
   queryMasterServer(
      7777,      // lanPort for local queries
      0,          // Query flags
      $Client::GameTypeQuery,       // gameTypes
      $Client::MissionTypeQuery,    // missionType
      0,          // minPlayers
      100,        // maxPlayers
      0,          // maxBots
      2,          // regionMask
      0,          // maxPing
      100,        // minCPU
      0           // filterFlags, current version
      );
}

Too many? Too few? What should I add/remove?

And thanks for your infinate help. You have no idea how much hair I would have removed from my scalp out of frustration were you not there to help me out :)

Associate Kyle Carter
#17
07/01/2004 (9:21 pm)
Check the definition of queryMasterServer in engine/game/net/serverQuery.cc.

Torque Owner Nick Merrill
#18
07/01/2004 (10:14 pm)
Great. Ok, so there I see U8 buddyCount, U32* buddyList, which don't appear above. I also don't see a "lanPort for local queries" in the definition. Should I kill Buddy count and Buddy List? What should I do about the lanPort thing? Thanks, and sorry for my newbishness :)

Torque Owner Quest Johnny
#19
01/19/2005 (9:28 am)
I'm a bit confused.. you have a master server that is not dependent on GG?

Torque Owner Thomas \"Man of Ice\" Lund
#20
01/19/2005 (10:58 am)
I made one in Perl (as a proof of concept / prototype) a loooong time ago. Its in the resources here