OoksServer wrote:
5) Don't go opening a whole bunch of ports. The only incoming port you need is 27015 (or the port you specified for your server). All other ports are outgoing ports and are psuedo-random by hlds and will be assigned by your router.
I would like to add to this. I use an OpenBSD box for my home firewall/gateway. In my case the server was using port 27015 on the internal IP. I had a NAT rule to forward that port on the external IP to the internal IP. Now, that would seem to be all I needed to do, but it wasn't showing up on the list. However the server could be joined by manually connecting to my ext_IP:27015.
The problem was OpenBSD was seeing my server send out the info on port 27015 to the master servers but it was randomizing the port. So the master list got some wacked out port number not 27015 and thus ignored it (my guess). Thanks to a couple people on the linux list I only had to add an extra NAT rule to force the port to remain static. Problem solved.
But I have no idea how you would check to see if a little SOHO NAT box like one from Linksys or Netgear is also doing that. With a shell I have commands I can run to see what's going on.
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