If you don't connect to the master server, no one will be able to find your server in the server browser.
Aren't illegal "no-steam" servers the only servers that would be running -nomaster? (Unless you're giving the IP address out to specific individuals and don't want any public players to connect.) On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 2:08 PM, Never <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I dont think so... > > I am curently hosting in the second most important hosting of Argentina > (The first has more ping for international players). > And When i asked to do an international tournament they didnt say > anithing, but when i asked to enable master server they said "NO! With > the amount of servers we are currently hosting we cannot enable MS > communication because our connection can't handle it." > I don't think they are lying, because their service is great and they > always give the better service they can, thats why they are so great. > You know, here in South America, the internet connections are not as > fast as yours. > Think about millions of queries to hundreeds of servers, thats a lot of > traffic. > > And, yes ratman, they have MS disabled and they are the most important > hosting provider in the country i realy don't know how... > But their service is excelent. > > ¿Is there not any kind of master server caché? > This wold be a great idea, master server caché takes information about > the servers over lan and then, the clients queries the cache and not > directly to the server. > > Thanks > > Kveri escribió: > > Hi, > > > > I don't think MS communication is traffic expensive. I think providers > > use disabled MS (enabled -nomaster) because they don't want foreign > > users on their customers' servers => no international traffic. > > > > Kveri > > > > Never wrote / napísal(a): > > > >> Hi! > >> > >> I am new to the community. > >> > >> I need some help. > >> I want to start my own gamehosting company, but i have seen that most of > >> massive gamehosting providers here in Argentina keeps master server > >> communication disabled in order to avoid the high amount of traffic > >> produced by the querries. > >> > >> ¿Is there any way to reduce this amount of traffic and allow my > >> customers to have their servers listed in the master server list? > >> > >> Thank You > >> > >> German Bobr > >> > >> Pheek Gaming > >> www.pheek.net > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > >> http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > >> > >> > >> > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
