I know it was mentioned a while ago by someone, but I never heard anything about it afterward.

Many servers, not just mine (both windows and linux) only register with the lobby successfully about 50% of the time, ballpark. They keep trying to register with the lobby on whatever timed cycle you (MM) put into it, and don't show up in the lobby at all.

Sometimes the server will register and stay for a while, then loses contact with the lobby after an hour or two, not showing up on any requests, via http at the lobby website, or the ingame lobby.

Is there something wrong with the lobby that requests are getting dropped or ignored? I have gotten a lot of complains lately about my servers not showing up in the lobby, and I know that it has been an issue for a while.

It only happens with the soldat.pl lobby, the selfkill lobby stays connected fine, apparently. Below is an excerpt from the U13 private server, after being run for a bit.

That server is windows, and is set to register with the both the soldat.pl and selfkill lobbies. My linux server is currently set to register only with the soldat.pl lobby, and the same thing happens. It is on a different connection, so it is not a connection or packet loss issue, and this has been happening with tens, if not hundreds of servers for quite a while.

Just wondering if anyone has looked into this and found a cause or fix. Since it happens with the soldat.pl lobby only, i'm assuming it must be either a traffic/demand issue, or something wrong in the code/setup.

I strongly reccommend that people (especially server owners) start using the selfkill lobby mirror more to help make up for the reduced performance in the lobby.pl server


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05-07-02 09:44:51 Game Log Started
05-07-02 09:44:51 Welcome to Soldat 1.2.1
05-07-02 09:44:51 CTF Nuubia - Created by Troskal
05-07-02 09:44:51 Connection for file server started. Port: 15
05-07-02 09:44:51 Registering server @ lobby.soldat.pl
05-07-02 09:44:51 Registering server @ selfkill.com
05-07-02 09:44:51 Registering server @ ASE
05-07-02 09:44:51 Game server added to lobby server @ 65.113.210.3
05-07-02 09:44:52 Game server added to lobby server @ 213.202.214.144
05-07-02 09:45:25 Admin connected (127.0.0.1).
05-07-02 09:47:29 Admin connected (192.168.1.1).
05-07-02 09:48:52 Registering server @ 65.113.210.3
05-07-02 09:49:51 Time Left: 10 minutes
05-07-02 09:52:52 Registering server @ 65.113.210.3
05-07-02 09:54:51 Time Left: 5 minutes
05-07-02 09:55:51 Time Left: 4 minutes
05-07-02 09:56:51 Time Left: 3 minutes
05-07-02 09:56:52 Registering server @ 65.113.210.3
05-07-02 09:57:51 Time Left: 2 minutes
05-07-02 09:58:51 Time Left: 1 minutes
05-07-02 09:59:51 Next map: ctf_B2b
05-07-02 09:59:57 B2B
05-07-02 10:00:52 Registering server @ 65.113.210.3
05-07-02 10:04:52 Registering server @ 65.113.210.3
05-07-02 10:04:57 Time Left: 10 minutes
05-07-02 10:08:52 Registering server @ 65.113.210.3
05-07-02 10:09:56 Time Left: 5 minutes
05-07-02 10:10:56 Time Left: 4 minutes
05-07-02 10:11:56 Time Left: 3 minutes
05-07-02 10:12:52 Registering server @ 65.113.210.3
05-07-02 10:12:56 Time Left: 2 minutes
05-07-02 10:13:56 Time Left: 1 minutes
05-07-02 10:14:56 Next map: ctf_Run
05-07-02 10:15:02 Run (get to the flag!)
05-07-02 10:16:52 Registering server @ 65.113.210.3
05-07-02 10:20:02 Time Left: 10 minutes
05-07-02 10:20:52 Registering server @ 65.113.210.3
05-07-02 10:24:52 Registering server @ 65.113.210.3
05-07-02 10:25:02 Time Left: 5 minutes
05-07-02 10:26:02 Time Left: 4 minutes
05-07-02 10:27:02 Time Left: 3 minutes
05-07-02 10:28:02 Time Left: 2 minutes
05-07-02 10:28:52 Registering server @ 65.113.210.3
05-07-02 10:29:02 Time Left: 1 minutes
05-07-02 10:30:02 Next map: ctf_Voland
05-07-02 10:30:07 Voland
05-07-02 10:32:52 Registering server @ 65.113.210.3
05-07-02 10:35:07 Time Left: 10 minutes
05-07-02 10:36:52 Registering server @ 65.113.210.3
05-07-02 10:40:07 Time Left: 5 minutes
05-07-02 10:40:52 Registering server @ 65.113.210.3
05-07-02 10:41:07 Time Left: 4 minutes
05-07-02 10:42:07 Time Left: 3 minutes
05-07-02 10:43:07 Time Left: 2 minutes
05-07-02 10:44:07 Time Left: 1 minutes
05-07-02 10:44:52 Registering server @ 65.113.210.3
05-07-02 10:45:07 Next map: ctf_Viet
05-07-02 10:45:12 Viet
05-07-02 10:48:52 Registering server @ 65.113.210.3
05-07-02 10:50:12 Time Left: 10 minutes
05-07-02 10:52:52 Registering server @ 65.113.210.3
05-07-02 10:55:12 Time Left: 5 minutes
05-07-02 10:56:12 Time Left: 4 minutes
05-07-02 10:56:52 Registering server @ 65.113.210.3
05-07-02 10:57:12 Time Left: 3 minutes
05-07-02 10:58:12 Time Left: 2 minutes
05-07-02 10:59:12 Time Left: 1 minutes
05-07-02 11:00:12 Next map: ctf_Laos
05-07-02 11:00:17 Laos
05-07-02 11:00:52 Registering server @ 65.113.210.3
05-07-02 11:04:52 Registering server @ 65.113.210.3
05-07-02 11:05:17 Time Left: 10 minutes
05-07-02 11:08:52 Registering server @ 65.113.210.3
05-07-02 11:10:17 Time Left: 5 minutes
05-07-02 11:11:17 Time Left: 4 minutes
05-07-02 11:12:17 Time Left: 3 minutes
05-07-02 11:12:52 Registering server @ 65.113.210.3

Well I did some testing and I can't really explain this. Did you notice that the first registration always works and then it starts losing connection? Can you confirm that it works fine with the selfkill lobby?

yeah, currently the Ultimate 13 CTF 24/7 server is registered fine in the selfkill lobby, but not in the soldat.pl lobby. I don't believe the first registration always works, because I've checked a couple times within a minute after the lobby goes up, and it isnt there.

Observe the timestamps. It is trying to register exactly ever 4 minutes, right from the start. I'm guessing that means the first attempt fails as well


edit:
about 5 minutes after i posted this thread, someone IMed me asking for help with the lobby. him, among many others, have had big problems with the "in-game lobby". He complained that only about 30 servers showed up, and I had him change lobby_servers.txt.

He tried just selfkill.com, and then looked again. it loaded 111 servers. the lobby (minutes later) had 213 servers, not the full list

I then had him put in both servers, selfkill.com first, then lobby.soldat.pl

he requested, and got a ton more he said. 230 servers. the lobby.soldat.pl currently has 123 servers, and the selfkill lobby has 213.

more later

I was messing around with the lobby today that's why there were few servers. It should be fine now.

alright. but yes, the servers definately register fine in the selfkill lobby every time. right now all 4 of mine are in there fine, but only 2 of them are showing up in the regular soldat lobby.

any insight?

They run the same program.
I bet the main lobby is overloaded, when the new version comes out everyone will use both lobbies and it should be fine.

yeah, changing the order of it must have just been luck at the time... he just IMed me and is still having the same amount of problems

quote:Originally posted by Michal Marcinkowski
...I bet the main lobby is overloaded, when the new version comes out everyone will use both lobbies and it should be fine.

yes! now people will actually join my server...