World: r3wp

But if you run more than one world on the same IP address .. the 
"ping" must be also sending the world name

Or you need DST NAT 5500 back to my world servers?

Graham - no, wrong - the "ping" is sending IP and port ...

Yes, it sends world name and a hash key to authenticate your claim.

hmm, maybe even the name, but it does not matter ...

Carl - to proceed - you said you can't ping Xidys ... what does it 
mean?

ping to public IP? Should work.

so does wireshark show that your altme sever is doing this??

Or you need 5500 port being accessible to your server?

You do not need 5500 inbound. Only outbound.

Xidys Altme server -- ( every 5 mins ) ---> safeworlds:5500

Graham - doing what? ;-) My worlds are running, clients connected, 
so yes, my world is doing it :-)

Well, then everything is ok on my side. So why you are saying that 
you can't ping Xidys?

What I said above was that if I grep the log, I do not see a "live" 
message from your server.

Graham - if port 5500 would not work, I think that altme name translation 
would not work ...

Pekr, you don't understand

safeworlds is not contacting you ...

wait a minute, maybe I have to kill someone :-)

Carl - can you see any 193.85.151.* IP in there?

maybe your firewall is blocking this heartbeat ?

yes

My brother put public IPs also on some subsequent routers.

so actually it might come out from different public address ...

ah

I mean - being NATted to different public address ...

I was wondering about that.

212.71.148.228

208.127.222.200

212 is walmark - when I access it from my work

our Xidys wifi network has C subnet of 193.85.151.*

wait a min.... 208....

ah, that's when you checked it from the website.

193.85.151.2

yes, that is my public IP, and that is IP my worlds are registered 
to ...

the strange "outage" happened 4-6 times in last 6 months ...

scanning older logs... 1 min.

around 11-Nov there was my other outage ...

and 26-Oct

maybe, I would have to search this group for my complaints :-)

I am able to re-register my worlds in 10 minutes, no problem. But 
it would be nice, if our effort would lead to fix of some possible 
problem ....

exactly...

I could make your world as permanent... but then, I'd not know about 
this possible bug.

That was also my motivation to not pay for the world names - yet. 
To find out, what's going on ...

Could you post a script/logic, which decides, if the world is or 
is not online for 10 days?

Maybe you check logs, and maybe when you reboot server, you loose 
the logs? Because - more users reported at the same time the same 
problem.

Well, does not work like that.  The log records the "raw" commands. 
So, it shows right now many hundreds of altme worlds "pinging" that 
they are "live".  The fact that your world never shows "live" is 
a mystery.

And, yes it is true... we rebooted the server recently -- the reason 
your world was "sweeped".

Carl - and here's what happened, but just once. I sent it to feedback 
- very special case:

Hi,


after last outage, I am not able to connect to my worlds - Xidys, 
Vertuzo.


The client even does not try to connect, as I can't see any outgoing 
packets to IP of my world on particular port (Xidys:5402). AltME 
client says - "Xidys exists, but not-online". But - our worlds are 
online. 


When I go to altme.com/check.html, the world seems to be online, 
and the site also is able to connect to it.


So I inspected TCP packets in Wireshark, and it states: "cmd: find 
data: ["Xidys" 0 1.2.17.3.1 4811897].cmd: lookup data: inactive ."

Submitted: 23-Oct-2009/8:52:48-7:00

maybe it is somehow related ...