Nightmare01

do you even read the posts above ?

First tests on the 1.08 Server confirm. IT HAS BEEN FIXED Thank you BIS and sorry for the rant, but it was necessarry to stir things up Thanks to Maruk, suma, andyb28 and everyone else who helped to fix that    oh and btw. 1.08 is really an improvement, ArmA runs alot smoother and better now. Keep up the good work

Im really disappointed and seriously angry about BIS now. They discovered this bug in September 2006 and werent able to fix it until now. Yes maybe not every server does have this problem but ffs thats not an excuse to give it an low priority. My Squad is playing 99% of the time on other peoples servers now. We are in danger to fall apart not to mention the big money sink this has caused to me. DAMN IT FIX THAT DAMN BUG NOW OR GO TO HELL !

no success. 1.07 Server vanishes after ~30min aswell

I will try the 1.07 beta server now.

thanks for your replies gentlemen. Our Host machine runs Windows XP. It doesnt has something to do with the operating system i am sure. You might check if the server stays on the list after a couple hours/days. Sometimes our server pops up randomly on the list but vanishes again shortly after.

All admins with this problem: Please drop your vote on the Bugtracker issue gents.

Dont ask, i think i wasted three or four evenings on this  Thx for your reply. As more people complain as sooner BIS will fix it ... hopefully Â

BIS has acknowledged this BUG and has given it a high priority ! BIS Bugtracker

Thanks for your reply. Nice prog good work mate. Only thing is our server is stable and people play without problems on it while the UDP query stops. So your prog would possibly kill a game in progress BIS fix the dedicated Server, this is killing us !!!

You have a similar problem as we have. See this thread. I reported the problem to the bugtracker some days ago. Would be nice if you could confirm this problem as only a VERY small amount of ArmA server seem to suffer this. As more people complain about it as sooner will BIS fix it.

Atleast its good to know that we arent the only ones who have this problem. I really started to become crazy. I was not far away from completely reinstalling the host machine Some technical specs our host machine: AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 3800+ 2GB Ram NVidia Nforce Chipset NVidia GF 6150 Onboard NVidia Nforce Ethernet Adapter Windows XP Prof. SP2 incl. newest MS updates

I just finished another Network monitoring session. The Server is sending every 20 seconds a packet to the gamespy server but then suddenly he stops. Reason unknown  /edit Reported to the Bugtracker now.

The Problem is still happening, doesnt matter what we try. I even deactivated the Firewall but it doesnt helps. The servers still vanish from the list after 10-30minutes. I found this on an Buglist from 1.01: This is exactly what is happening to us using 1.05 Dedicated Server now.

Heya, im the Admin of the SWAF servers and together with the hosting company i investigated this deeply now. We found out that everything is setup and working correctly from our server side. By using an packet sniffer we filtered the relevant data packets out and followed thier way. Our server is reporting correctly to gamespy. Gamespy is publishing his IP to the ingame browsers and the game clients start to send asking 'whats your status' packets to our server. Our server sends correctly answer packets back to these clients. So far everything works as it should but after a random time ~5-30min the clients stop to ask and the server disappears from the gamespy list. How or why we dont know, but it seems that Gamespy is deleting our servers from thier database. All further reporting packets from our servers to gamespy seem to be ignored then. Only a server restart brings back the server to the gamespy list. Anyone having an advice ?