Lamespy master server down.

[Leo(T.C.K.)]

Lamespy master server down, on Unreal and on Daikatana it seems.

edit (another thread):
http://www.oldunreal.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1221584697

 

[UBerserker]

Not only here, even UT3's. According to WarTourist, LameSpy moved the master server.

 

[Leo(T.C.K.)]

Then how come UT's gamespy server is working fine?
Or did they take down the less populated games for them?

 

[Zarniwoop]

People actually play Daikatana?

 

[Leo(T.C.K.)]

Yeah, mostly dm (thanks to the daikatanadm standalone mod also). There were like 15 servers when the master server went down.

 

[Sir_Brizz]

Uhhhh..... doesn't Epic's Unreal master server still work?

 

[Leo(T.C.K.)]

Nope, that's down for long time. Only gamespy remained of the original master servers and now it's down along with many other games that were not so populated.

 

[Sir_Brizz]

Huh.... I think I'll drop Jeff an email about this. I coulda sworn that Epic was still hosting a list.

 

[K]

There are more then one master server.
Witch one went down and when will it be back up?
I started a thread about this already in the UT 99 section.
I lost all my Monster Hunt server lists, and others i talked to have lost their Death match lists and UT server lists.

This happened last year so don't expect the end of the world.
People in that oldunreal thread are just speculating like we are so don't take what they say as factual.

Does anyone have the addresses for the alternate servers?
You can add them into your ini and get some of the list back.
Please post if you have the addresses.

 

[Leo(T.C.K.)]

UT's master server isn't the same as Unreal's.
The Epic master server may still work for UT but it is long time ago dead for Unreal.
EDIT:
unreal.epicgames.com works (which is also for UT), but the default (for Unreal originally) www.epicgames.com or master.epicgames.com not.
That's why. But there are like no servers in unreal.epicgames.com for unreal because people think its dead.

 

[~DH-CrackeR~]

Anyone here have any updates... the unreal 1 community are all making torches and picking up pitchforks atm.

 

[Leo(T.C.K.)]

And many of the previously down master serevrs for other games is up again, but Unreal not.

 

[Zur]

It would be nice to figure out how a master server works. Maybe ElMuerte could help with the protocol used.

 

[IronMonkey]

It would be nice to figure out how a master server works. Maybe ElMuerte could help with the protocol used.

I can't find the reference at the moment (which makes me think that I must have mis-remembered) but I thought it was possible for any ucc instance (pre-UT3?) to declare itself a master server as a commandline option.

Clients would still have to be configured to use the new master server instance as their master server.

Edit:
There is this:

C:\Unreal Anthology\UnrealTournament\System>ucc help
=======================================
ucc.exe: UnrealOS execution environment
Copyright 1999 Epic Games Inc
=======================================

Usage:
   ucc <command> <parameters>

Commands for "ucc":
...
   ucc masterserver          Maintain master list of servers.
...
C:\Unreal Anthology\UnrealTournament\System>ucc help masterserver
=======================================
ucc.exe: UnrealOS execution environment
Copyright 1999 Epic Games Inc
=======================================

Usage:
   ucc masterserver [-option...] [parm=value]

Parameters:
   ConfigFile       Configuration file to use.  Default: MasterServer.ini

C:\Unreal Anthology\UnrealTournament\System>

Reading the help description, I'm not convinced that the masterserver option does anything other than muck about with an ini file - unless that ini file contains the information needed to make ucc a master server.

 

[Zur]

I remember something along those lines too.

 

[Leo(T.C.K.)]

I could query now the master0.gamespy.com, seems like they are adding it back. (forget what I said, now it says it fails again )

Oh well, at UT I could not query it, damn this is strange. The MH tab really doesn't work at all, though coop tab works if you wait a while.

 

[K]

Does anyone actually know what is going on with the MS yet?

I want my gd MH tab back!!!!

 

[Zur]

http://www.runegame.com/vbf/showthread.php?s=&threadid=22351

 

[Zur]

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How to host your own MS
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PostSubject: How to host your own MS Sun Aug 31, 2008 1:35 pm
I know ive left the majority of dx community boards but as ive stopped hosting my MS id like to post the info out on How to do it.

Consider this my leaving present


Now the UCC Masterserver program is buggy but you can make it run smoothy by following this exactlly:

1. Install deus ex and the SDK on the copy you wish to host MS on.

2. Install nepthys verson: Nephthys_v1.4a100 (only applies for dx.) On the

masterserver and the server. (they need to be similar versons or matching to

prevent getting rejected). Or you can have the MS and server non nepthys.

3. In the System folder, Make a file called: MasterServer.ini (CAPS MUST BE EXACT!) And in it put this:

; Unreal Engine Master Server
; Configuration File
;
; Revision History:
; * (4/16/99) Created by Brandon Reinhart
;
; Usage:
;
; [MasterServer]
; GameName=[Identifying String]
; Where the string is one assign by GameSpy & Critical Mass.
; OperationMode=[TextFile/TCPLink]
; First mode outputs server list to the file specified under the
; OutputFile key of the [TextFile] section.
; Second mode services GameSpy MasterServer Protocol messages
; on the port specified under the TCPPort key of the [TCPLink] section.
; ListenPort=[Integer]
; Specifies the port to listen for heartbeats on.

[MasterServer]
GameName=deusex
;OperationMode=TextFile
OperationMode=TCPLink
ListenPort=27900

[TextFile]
OutputFile=servers.txt

[TCPLink]
TCPPort=28900

And save it.


Then make a .bat file in the system folder and in it put:

ucc masterserver

And save it.

Then double click the bat file to get it running.

It will do something like this:



And then ur done Very Happy

To do it with diff games change the GameName= to the game you want to host.

thanks,

HDD21.

 

[Leo(T.C.K.)]

Master0.gamespy.com is up now and lasting so far. Even MH list is back.