GG Master Server Down?

#1 There is a master server?

#2 Yeah for multiplayer matching ... well there was.

#3 I think it's still up. My game is connecting to it and the servers are reciving info requests. (Nothing showing in the list - but that's code related, my code)

#4 I usually check Gnometech.

#5 Pardon me for resurrecting this topic but my team has been having problems getting servers to show up in the master server list and on gnometech. We've tried with both our RTS project and the default TGE demo but cannot see the server in either case.

We set up the server in the DMZ of one team member's firewall but it doesn't show up in the game server bowser or on Gnometech. What really stumps me is that the default torque demo didn't show up. Does the GG master have issues with DMZ'd servers or filter them out?

Thanks,
Greg

#6 The master just sends UDP packets; they may or may not make it out. You might have to spend a little time debugging to figure out what's happening to them. There are several free master server clones to be found online; you might want to pull one down, get it running, and use it locally to test with.

#7 Further experimentation:

I set up a stock RTS-SK dedicated server on my linux box. The linux box is multihomed with an interface on the internet and one on my LAN. It is not behind a firewall. In my console I have lots of messages saying:

"Sending heartbeat to master server [IP:216.116.32.49:28002]"
"Received info request from a master server [IP:216.116.32.49:28002]".
"Received info request from a master server [IP:216.116.32.49:28002]".

So as far as I can tell I am successfully communicating with the master server, but I cannot see my server in either the join server GUI or on the Gnometech.com GG master server monitor (searching by game server type).

I can locate the server with LAN query and connect to it.

I have read elsewhere that the master server filters out servers on your local subnet, is this correct?