Hi all,
This is my first post to this list but I have been reading for a while in search for a solution to my problem. Here is the story: - In my area, Sydney, Australia there are no decent TFC servers where one can play a serious round. - I finally found an excellent server that has lots of productive players and round-the-clock action but that server (Pete Claar) is somewhere in the US and my pings are always over 200. Due to the time zones I often play there when no moderators are there to keep less productive players in line so it gets a little frustrating at times. - I have one ADSL and one cable connection at my disposal and a free P3-800 with 512MB RAM so I wanted to run my own server with a group of other players. Everything worked out fine during testing when people connected to the server with its IP address or FQDN. In real life players are not likely to do this as they would browse for the server when they launch HL. If they connect to it by finding it in the master server list their connections time out because my server announces itself with the physical IP address of the host machine. The server is a Win2k Server which has a private IP address behind a firewall. I would have thought that most larger servers are behind some kind of firewall with the relevant ports opened and that I could start the server with the +ip [public IP address] argument to ensure that the public IP is put through to the master server list, not the private one. My question is if anyone has a way to make it work in this environment or if there are future releases of the HLDS that will allow this to work or alternatively if anyone using the Linux server has a way to make it work in Linux as I also have a Mandrake 8.1 box with suitable hardware specs sitting on this connection behind the same firewall.. Or is there a way a good soul at Valve could create an entry for the server in the master list? _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
