Dedicated server issues

[Sparx1337]

Long story short, people can't seem to join my server through the server gamelist. It seems like it's trying to connect with a random port between 60000-65535. Port forwarding has been properly set up with 2302-2303, and people can join through direct IP, but not the gamelist.

Anyone have any idea what the problem might be? Been searching for a while now without any luck.

[tythespy]

Try different ports (something else could be using them)

[supersniper]

in your init.txt do you have a command that says sv_public 1 or sv_public "true"

[jcap]

It sounds like the server is being displayed for him, but when people try to connect, it doesn't work. Without sv_public set as true, the game would not show the server in the list at all.

[Sparx1337]

Try different ports (something else could be using them)

Hmm, I'll try this when I can.

in your init.txt do you have a command that says sv_public 1 or sv_public "true"

Yes, I do. It's visible in the gamelist, but game info and ping and all that stuff doesn't show up, so there's something about the ports, and not the sv_public 1/0 command.

It sounds like the server is being displayed for him, but when people try to connect, it doesn't work. Without sv_public set as true, the game would not show the server in the list at all.

Correct.

[supersniper]

Hmm...
that means there's another program blocking it aswell.
For dedi's 3 ports are required (default)
80 TCP - (Halo's update service)
2302 UDP
2303 UDP

maybe your other firewalls are blocking it as well?
if you use windows firewall then just allow ports through that.
Also if you have Kaspersky Internet Security 2010 then that also has a built in firewall and they will need to be allowed through there aswell.

If none of those apply to you then i do not know what is going on.

[Sparx1337]

Hmm...
that means there's another program blocking it aswell.
For dedi's 3 ports are required (default)
80 TCP - (Halo's update service)
2302 UDP
2303 UDP

maybe your other firewalls are blocking it as well?
if you use windows firewall then just allow ports through that.
Also if you have Kaspersky Internet Security 2010 then that also has a built in firewall and they will need to be allowed through there aswell.

If none of those apply to you then i do not know what is going on.

Might be the firewall I'm using yeah, but from what I remember I set it to allow incoming connections for those ports, but I can check again just to make sure.

[supersniper]

you also might need to allow the actual haloceded.exe through the firewall aswell.

[Vicky]

You only need to forward the actual UDP port the server runs on, not 80 (http) or wichever other port.

[supersniper]

meh it never hurts to have more than you need and in his case it might help.