Am I supposed to be able to see my own server on ServerBrowser?

[theSYNDIKATE]

Just wondering if i'm supposed to be able to see my own server on the ServerBrowser list, i've got my server functioning perfectly and have multiple people in it,  and see it on the server list in-game but I can't see it when I use the ServerBrowser program.

[jitspoe]

Sometimes you can, sometimes you can't.  You can probably see it in-game because it found it as a LAN server.

[theSYNDIKATE]

It's a dedicated home-based server jitspoe, I see it as well as everyone else in DP2 in-game, and others have seen it in ServerBrowser, but i'm the only one who can't.

[T3RR0R15T]

It's like the [OTB] Speed server.
Ingame: Everytime in the list.
Serverbrowser: Very rarely in the list.

[theSYNDIKATE]

It's like the [OTB] Speed server.
Ingame: Everytime in the list.
Serverbrowser: Very rarely in the list.

I guess it's just random then.

Thanks T3RR0R15T.

[XtremeBain]

The server browser doesn't scan for games on your LAN like the in game browser does. It downloads a list of servers that it will try to query. This list gets updated frequently based on the heartbeats that it sends to dplogin.com's master server.

If your server's IP is always showing up in this list, then the heartbeats are fine.

Some routers will not do port forwarding inside the LAN. It will only forward to ports in your LAN if the connection has come through on the WAN port from your modem. Your computer sends a query to your public IP, but once it gets to your router, the router realizes that the destination is actually the IP it has on the WAN interface and will try to accept the connection itself without using any port forwarding rules that would normally be applied to all packets that come through the WAN interface.

If you had another server browser tool that supports Q2, you could try to query the server by manually adding the LAN IP that the server is listening on and you would probably see what everyone else is seeing.

It's kind of hard to explain, but hopefully you'll get the idea..

[theSYNDIKATE]

I understand what you're talking about for the most part.

[MOFO]

when i had my server it didnt show up until i had my ports fowarded. so that other people can join. but it can be confusing cuz it shows up for my LAN also

[theSYNDIKATE]

My ports are all forwarded and everyone is able to join my server and see it on both lists. But I can't see it on ServerBroweser.

[Spook]

Have you tried using the server browser?

[theSYNDIKATE]

Have you tried using the server browser?

Of course, that's the point.

[Spook]

Oh I thought you only used the server broweser.

[theSYNDIKATE]

No, I usually use the in-game server list to connect to games.

But knowing that many people use the ServerBrowser to connect, I started using ServerBrowser as well only to notice that my dedicated server wasn't on the ServerBrowser's list, but only on the in-game one.

Regardless, everyone else can see my server on both lists, but I can only see it on one.