Server Groups Problem

RPG · Post by **RPG** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 3:48 am

Spldart and I just realized that we were having the same groups problem with our servers. Whenever anybody logged on, they were not globally identified. Also, they were not added to their respective groups. What I concluded was that either a firewall or a router was blocking the global registratoin packets from reaching either the global reg. database or spldart's server. I did a quick packet sniff and found a few packets like this:

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TO
bzflag.secretplace.us:80

PACKET DATA:
GET /db/?action=ADD&nameport=garrettsites.game-host.org&version=BZFS0026&gameinfo=01eb0008000100460000000000000a000a000a000a000a000a00c8&build=2.0.0.20050117-STABLE-W32VC71&checktokens=&groups=EVERYONE%0D%0ARPGCOPS%0D%0AVERIFIED%0D%0A&title=RPG%27s+Funhouse HTTP/1.1
User-Agent: bzfs 2.0.0.20050117-STABLE-W32VC71
Host: my.BZFlag.org
Cache-Control: no-cache
Connection: close

I take it that was to get my server on the list.

spldart · Post by **spldart** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 4:00 am

I occasionally get global and occasionally not.

BTW I saw alot of UDP in there. I have way more tcp open than udp. And even tcp is closed pretty tight...

Hrm

wegstar · Post by **wegstar** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 4:39 am

This problem appears to affect only windows users.. I have solved it by compiling my own bzfs. Jeffm2501 says it may because I have a different network lib. You could try it here : http://www.freewebs.com/wegstar/downloads.htm ...and that copy did not work for spldart

hopefully it will for you

JeffM · Post by **JeffM** » Wed Mar 16, 2005 7:22 am

it could also be that your ISP uses a chacing proxy. If so you can try using port 81 for the list server.

the enemy · Post by **the enemy** » Sun Mar 20, 2005 10:13 pm

I think Jeff may well be right - that happened to me. More specifics of what is needed is at: http://my.bzflag.org/bb/viewtopic.php?t=2879

RPG · Post by **RPG** » Sun Mar 20, 2005 10:57 pm

But does changing the .bzc file also effect BZFS? I thought it was only for BZFlag configuration.

JeffM · Post by **JeffM** » Mon Mar 21, 2005 8:25 am

no you put the list server URL in your config or as a command line option

wegstar · Post by **wegstar** » Tue Mar 22, 2005 12:14 am

Then how was my problem solved?

my bzfs never showed

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ERROR: did not get token:
NOTOK: invalid callsign or password (nader:xxxxx)

or something even like that... I guess my problem is different

Tropican8 · Post by **Tropican8** » Thu Jul 14, 2005 6:05 am

nader wrote:This problem appears to affect only windows users.. I have solved it by compiling my own bzfs. Jeffm2501 says it may because I have a different network lib. You could try it here : http://www.freewebs.com/wegstar/downloads.htm ...and that copy did not work for spldart hopefully it will for you

I don't know what you did, but that fixed my server's global reg problem! Any chance someone could compile the fixes against 2.0.2?

Post by **DTRemenak** » Thu Jul 14, 2005 6:57 am

Tropican8: please try 2.0.3b10, now posted in the "Releases and Versions" forum.

Tropican8 · Post by **Tropican8** » Thu Jul 14, 2005 7:24 am

DTRemenak wrote:Tropican8: please try 2.0.3b10, now posted in the "Releases and Versions" forum.

Tried it, doesn't fix the issue. It would be great if this could be fixed before 2.0.4 is released. Nader's works fine, try compiling the next beta in Dev-C++ with his network lib and height checking disabled. I'm assuming the network lib came with the compile environment but I really have no idea what he's using.

wegstar · Post by **wegstar** » Wed Jul 27, 2005 8:47 pm

Tropican8, I have stuck up a 2.0.3 bzfs build on my site, try to see if it works, it worked for me

Get it here:
http://www.freewebs.com/wegstar/downloads.htm

and please, please check bzfs.exe against the md5 and sha1 hashes listed there.

Good Luck.

/me disappears, once again

Tropican8 · Post by **Tropican8** » Wed Jul 27, 2005 11:38 pm

Yes, also works for me!

Thanks nader