What happen to OFP server?? 22 July

[sniper]

guys i cant find the server whats happening ?

[Phalanx]

what are you using to launch your game?
just the in-game? ofpwatch? or gamespy?

....ill check
brb

[br]

There is some rogue server watch program that is flooding the server box so bad that it was affecting all of the games as well as web surfing here so I had to implement strict firewall rules. The OFP server should be showing on GameSpy and you can go to it directly at 173.163.134.186 port 2302.

[Boo]

i searched for the server outside the game on my ofpwatch and nothing showed up, i copied and pasted the ip from the server status page. I didnt go into the game to physically check the server was there unless my ofpwatch is faulty

[br]

OK it's because of the strict firewall rules I had to set up to stop the flooding. OFP watch worked from inside my LAN, but I forgot that it would no longer work from the outside world. I'll have to try and figure out what IP address OFP watch comes from to allow it in.

[br]

We isolated the problem to a compromised game server in the UK. I got a better firewall that lets me block individual addresses or range of addresses, so the culprits packets are being blocked and we are letting other traffic in. Gametracker is now reporting normally and OFP Watch should start reporting normally, but I don't have a good way to test that one remotely, so OFP players will have to let me know if there is still a problem with OFP Watch.

[Boo]

BR you are a computing genius among us mere mortals, many praises to you :)

[Boo]

BR i think the server is still playing up maybe since last night, im still hanging on the the "wait for server" screen this past few mins it lets me onto the server and choose a mission but wont go any further nor will it let me login in as admin or any # commands,

thanks BR.

[br]

It seemed to be "hung", but it did let me log in as admin, and from there it worked properly. I then logged out and came back as a just a user and it worked fine. Did you have the correct admin password? I'll PM the correct one to you just in case.