Info: Gametracker Limitations for Auth and UnAuth Server Modes

Last Updated on Monday, 11 May 2009 22:55 Written by TitanTree Monday, 16 March 2009 16:45

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When running honor maps and then user created maps a gametracker server could be displayed as off line.  There are a number of reasons, remember how AA's ports work with maps?

• Authorized maps run the Query Port on 1717.
• Unauthorized maps run the Query Port on 7778.
• Note each could be higher if running more than one server.

Now consider you add your server to gametracker while its running an Authorized map.  You would add it with the Query Port of 1717, this works and tracking something like Sledgehammer or SF Redemption.

You then change maps on your server to an Unauthorized one such as SF Highland.  What does this do?

• The server changes its query port to 7778.
• Gametracker continues to scan your authorized query port of 1717.
• Your server is not tracked... gametracker can't find data on the registered port.

Here lies the problem, gametracker does not have the option to allow two query ports to be registered, you can re-add your server with the same IP:PORT and different query port.  What could be done to fix this?  There's not many options...

1. Run authorized maps on a server config different to your unauthorized maps, in theory we're saying run your auth server as normal and register it, then create a second server (copy and paste the ini) and change the game port to something like 1916 load it up with an unauth map and register that one with the 7778 port at gametracker.
2. You could get tricky with your router or software firewall, let me explain.  You can only register one IP:Port so you need to trick gametracker so register the your server with the Auth IP:Port, next you could re-route the UnAuth query port of 7778 to the Auth port of 1717.  This way no matter what mode your server is in, gametracker.com will always see the same IP:Port.
3. GameTracker change the constraint to allow a second server with the same IP and same Join port but different Query Ports to be added.

When you use the Tours.ini generator, I have already split the missions into Auth and Unauth, the bottom / last tour is the Unauth tour any of those maps will force your server to lan mode and use the 7778 query port.