Grey Question marks- ping

[goatcheese 0]

This is probs a stupid question, but here goes.....

Is it possible to connect to servers where the ping shows as a grey question mark?

Other people can connect to them, but i cant(they get the question mark aswell).

Any help or advice please

[zaphod 0]

yes it should ...

did you just wait a minute? be patient ... sometimes (on longer games) it can take a while until your client is completely synced to the server (as you get a question mark, server cap's are reached(?)).

i don't really know it, but i can connect as your buds do...

[goatcheese 0]

"connection with the server has been lost"

[Bergmania 0]

I think that atleast some of the grey questionmarked servers are behind firewalls.. so they tell the "master" that they are there and use some nifty NAT-T tricks so some players can connect

Atleast thats what happened to me, I had a slight misconfiguration in my server settings so I did report to the master but I had not port forwaded anything in my firewall and yet people could connect.. Pinging the server will not work either in that scenario as its behind the firewall and the firewall is configured not to answer pings..

I suspect that there can be problems connecting if you are using NAT aswell..