HALO 1.09 CE (personal dedis ping not showing)

[POQbum]

Just something that's been bugging me, ever since the patch my server isn't showing a ping on the Halo list.

I've noticed that with everyone who has set up a dedicated server on a home server or computer a ping doesn't show up, even if all the correct ports are open.

Does anyone know what's causing this or have a fix for it?

Thanks
- PÕQ~POQbum

[Cortexian]

This was happening on my server for awhile, fixed itself after a restart one day.

[sleepy1212]

i've always noticed this on many of the home-servers...erred on the side of caution and bought one from gameservers.

[Vicky]

Happens on CE and PC deds, started about 6 weeks ago.. already before the update. If you watch your network-traffic it's a lot less than before as well. I doubt it's just home servers though. Maybe someone messed the gamespy masterserver up :P

[sleepy1212]

Happens on CE and PC deds, started about 6 weeks ago.. already before the update. If you watch your network-traffic it's a lot less than before as well. I doubt it's just home servers though. Maybe someone messed the gamespy masterserver up :P

it's been like that for at least two years, it's only the home servers i've ever seen that have no ping

[Horns]

it's been like that for at least two years, it's only the home servers i've ever seen that have no ping

^^This

I've known of a lot of home dedis since the time I started playing that never did have a ping shown. Most people just ignore it.

[Vicky]

Then their firewall/router is configured wrong for hosting a halo ded, pings can show up just fine for home-deds as well.

[chrisk123999]

Found this on bungie.net:

For Halo:
80 (Transmission Control Protocol [TCP]) - Halo looks to see if there is a Halo update available. If there is an update, Halo downloads the update through this port.
2302 (User Datagram Protocol [UDP]) - the game host listens on this port.
2303 (UDP) - the game client connects to the game host through this port.

For Gamespy and Arcade Application:
6667 (IRC)
3783 (Voice Chat Port)
27900 (Master Server UDP Heartbeat)
28900 (Master Server List Request)
29900 (GP Connection Manager)
29901 (GP Search Manager)
13139 (Custom UDP Pings)
6515 (Dplay UDP)
6500 (Query Port)

May or may not be useful.

[Vicky]

For Halo:

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[chrisk123999]

It uses some of the gamespy ones.