ok wtf is up with the server??? pathfinder wont work now, and has when master was down wtf!!!
ET keeps crashing.
CooperHawkes
(CooperHawkes)
#42
how should pathfinder work, when the master is down? it only works for your favorites… what, you don’t have favorites? oops…
always remember folks: this is a free service… so don’t be too rude to the guys doing a great job
btw: there is a problem with your keyboard… you should have a look for it
monkeyfarts
(monkeyfarts)
#43
I used to have the problem too. I tried everything, but nothing worked. I ended up fixing it my downloading the latest driver for my video card from www.omegacorner.com. They’re the same basic thing as the driver you get from nvidia/ati’s site, but they’re tweaked to get rid of bugs, improve textures, stuff like that. I guess my nvidia driver had a problem with ET and was freakin it out, and the omega driver fixed that problem with the driver.
TFate
(TFate)
#44
Your problem was unrelated if fixing your vid card drives helped. This had to do with the masterserver being down.
monkeyfarts
(monkeyfarts)
#45
oic… my prob was similiar in that et was crashing, except it would overheat my vid card, making my entire computer crash.
Ragnar_40k
(Ragnar_40k)
#46
Got this bug today again. ET (with the ingame server browser) keeps crashing, but Pathfinder is still functioning and reports 4600 something servers.
frozen
(frozen)
#49
Crashes nearly every time for me. I type ‘et’, press enter, it runs, I go to Play Online, it tries to load the list, and bam, it crashes.
Skunk
(Skunk)
#51
My client has been crashing for two days now. I don’t use ASE and I don’t have a fav list. Fortunatly I have one server address written down.
Having some kind of reassurance from splashdamage would be nice.
Lekdevil.NL
(Lekdevil.NL)
#53
I’m starting to wonder if this isn’t some kind of DoS attack against the master server (and with that against every ET client)…
Fusen
(Fusen)
#54
lol ya this is the second time its happened now… i reckon its a server messing about with its name tbh =P
Rain
(Rain)
#55
Most of the servers the master returns are no longer responding (which is why people complain about the list being so slow to refresh when it does work for them.)
It looks as though the master server just isn’t expiring servers that stop sending heartbeats…
Sauron_EFG
(Sauron|EFG)
#56
In some cases there’s several hundred servers with the same address.
E.g. for 24.158.222.88 there’s 700+ entries (port numbers between 11460 and 12324).
Edit: current server list
I’d say that everyone querying servers is part of a DoS attack against those IPs that have a lot of entries. 
Maybe they should limit the number of servers on a single IP in the master server to prevent this.
Lekdevil.NL
(Lekdevil.NL)
#57
Spoof, what program did you use to produce that raw server listing? I’m trying to coax Qstat into doing it, but it also wants to query each server that it receives from the master (which is taking a long time, of course).
Cheers.
Rain
(Rain)
#59
Hmmm… Indeed. I hadn’t noticed that…
IP addresses with >10 entries on the master:
### IP
14 82.192.80.130
24 200.96.86.221
24 81.103.193.13
27 217.232.76.235
32 213.204.40.62
36 209.161.243.202
37 209.161.238.225
42 134.58.253.225
59 217.232.67.131
59 83.129.92.213
65 83.129.86.174
70 81.208.84.57
115 83.129.22.55
229 81.108.24.96
264 62.58.237.31
307 80.37.168.185
375 63.87.1.243
586 128.180.193.77
607 200.252.112.6
613 209.188.70.41
615 67.82.72.153
704 24.158.222.88
(I used qstat. I was lazy.)
Lekdevil.NL
(Lekdevil.NL)
#60
So what are we looking at here? The only “legitimate” reason for someone to register 100+ ports on one address would be a borked server restart script, spawning lots of server processes on consecutive ports. But 100+ processes? That would require many gigabytes of RAM to run. I’m afraid that some script kiddies at work or some kind of trojan might be the only explanations.