Ut / UT2004 dedicated server help needed

Dr Zoidberg

Dr Zoidberg

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Having found a few posts through the search option of people on here running UT servers i have decided it is time to post in an attempt to find some help.

i am trying to run a UT and UT2004 server from home for a small group to use while some 'old friends' are all back in the same area.

Problem is i cant get either working :(

I started with UT, downloaded the dedicated server files and ran the set up,
Found the .ini file and adjusted what needed doing (as far as i know?)
Got into my router and forwarded a load of ports from a list i found online,
Ran the 'Start UT server' in the start menu.
It starts up and goes through its stuff,
Gets to a point where it can connect to the master server.

From my understanding all 3 of the master servers in the .ini file are no more?
unreal.epicgames.com
master0.gamespy.com
master.mplayer.com
Ping on the first two gives destination host unreachable, the last gives host can not be found.
So the server is never going to connect to them ?

Do people change these or remove them from the .ini and forget about master servers?

They are only needed to advertise the server? and i don't need it advertised i will just give my external IP to the people that will be playing.

Well to test this i had the server running and loaded my game up (same PC)
the server shows and players under the LAN tab, Yah happy me :D
Gave my external IP to some one and the loaded up and stuck that into 'open location' it goes to the next screen as though it is loading but just sits there doing nothing.

I have spent hours looking over very old articles and forum posts on the net but just have not got any where.

Now when i click 'start UT server' dos box flashes up for a few seconds then it is gone, think i broke it good this time,
Will look at deleting it and starting again i think,

Going on to UT 2004 i also get master server connection problems with that, have gone no further than starting the server with that yet, one at a time i think.

If any one can help me get this running you would make a small group of people very happy for a few weeks :D
 
Server.ini

Can you post your UT2k4 server.ini and the batch file your using to start it.?
I've had a ut2k4 server running on my MaxDSL server for 2 years now with no problems and it still uplinks to the GAMESPY servers and is viewable from externally.

A very good place for into is www.unrealadmin.org but post your configs and ill take a look see.
 
Will drag out the ini file in a sec,

UDP ports

On my router i have taken the details from Here for UT

And Here for 2004

As some cross and match i have used the same entrys for both in some cases.

The router firewall is off, i have never had this on, It is NAT enabled.
The PC has the windows XP firewall on, i have done nothing with this.
 
Strange

Thats very strange indeed i think its to do with your port forwading allthough cannot be certain.

I only run one UT2k4 server here on a dedicated server

By bat file contains

@Echo off
:10
ucc server ONS-Torlan?game=Onslaught.ONSOnslaughtGame ini=UT2004.ini log=server.log
copy server.log servercrash.log
goto 10

I'll check my firewall one mo.
 
The ports i have forwaded to my server are
UDP 27902 (Master server uplink)
UDP 28902 (Gamespy uplink)
UDP 7770 - 7790 (Actual gameplay ports for clients)
 
Rangler said:
Thats very strange indeed i think its to do with your port forwading allthough cannot be certain.

I only run one UT2k4 server here on a dedicated server

By bat file contains

@echo off
:10
ucc server ONS-Torlan?game=Onslaught.ONSOnslaughtGame ini=UT2004.ini log=server.log
copy server.log servercrash.log
goto 10

I'll check my firewall one mo.
Click to expand...

Copyed your batch file over as mine has had several 'adjustments' (thats what i am calling them, and may have got to the point where it was a load of rubbish,

But i still get the same thing with the master servers using your batch file.
I cant ping the master servers either, is this normal? do i need to give a port to the ping command?
 
I've never tried to ping them, Let me dig out my ini and ill try.
You mave msn.? that may be easier then posts here.?
 
Can anyone else help.

Very strange this.

I remoted onto his pc and we put the "Hosting pc" into the DMZ and even turned off the XP firewall temporarily.

It resolves all master server names to IP's correctly but it just wont connect to epics master servers :(

Tried using default batch files and server ini's including my own which i know work and still it fails :(

Anyoneelse any thoughts.?
 
Thanks for your time and effort last night Rangler, very much appreciated,

After we finished i rebooted the router and the PC, it was as the PC was starting up i worked out what the problem was,

And now i feel really stupid :o:o:o

Peer Guardian was running and preventing the master servers reply from getting back to my server, turned that off and it worked first go,
Still havnt had any one log on from the internet yet to test that but everything appears to be ok and i dont see any issues.

Again thanks for the help.
 
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