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nicke157 · Posted: Thu Feb 03, 2011 9:25 pm Post subject: Server crashing every 8 minute

Then I run my ArmA 2 server through Gamecreate it rebooting (or crashing) after 8 minutes.
But if I running without Gamecreate it not crashing.

The server is empty and not running any mission (just a lobby when you join the server as it should).

adbot · Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2011 3:57 am

Kybber · Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2011 8:25 am Post subject:

Sounds like it is a query issue: GC tries to query your server every few minutes from a central GC-host. If it fails, the GC client on your host is instructed to restart the server. You can verify that this is the case by looking at the failure log in the GC web panel which should say something about "query failure".

Make sure that you have opened your firewall for server queries and performed necessary NATing.

dende · Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2011 12:07 am Post subject:

Go to Host tab and deselect monitoring.

Cyber_Punk · Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2011 10:07 pm Post subject:

Kybber · Posted: Sun Feb 06, 2011 12:48 am Post subject:

Problem with that solution is that if your server freezes up but doesn't actually die, then GC will not notice and will not restart it. The better solution is to ensure that GC is able to query the server.

Cyber_Punk · Posted: Sun Feb 06, 2011 12:28 pm Post subject:

Kybber · Posted: Sun Feb 06, 2011 11:43 pm Post subject:

So what you're saying is that when there are players on the server, GC queries fine, but when the server is empty it does not and restarts because of query failure? That is really weird... Have you tried to query your server yourself, using your external (non-LAN) IP? qstat is an excellent tool for this. If you get a response, then GC should get a response too, and vice versa.

Cyber_Punk · Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2011 3:58 pm Post subject:

Kybber · Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2011 9:23 pm Post subject:

I don't run any Killing Floor servers, but our L4D2-servers are queried fine by GC.

Could it be some sort of weird stuff with your router, perhaps? I don't know much about networking, but maybe the router blocks that particular kind fo connection attempt whenever there is no other activity? Dunno what's going on, all I can say is that it works for me.

Cyber_Punk · Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2011 10:42 pm Post subject:

Kybber · Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2011 10:50 pm Post subject:

Yes, that is correct. The port that GC queries is a fixed offset (though often equal to 0) from the game port given by %server:port%, and the IP is the one given by %server:ip%. Although you can easily change both the IP and query port that the server uses, you can not modify the IP and port that GC will attempt to query, which will then lead to query error. Therefore always use the correct IP (%server:ip%) and query port (%server:port% + unmodified_offset_from_the_default_file_or_command_line) in your files/command lines.

Glad it worked out for you Smile