Werid "getstatus " in console!?
 

heey peeps!!

I'm running a ded. server as usual, right!!

what i have notices lately by looking in the console are these :

SV packet 213.119.58.49:-332 : getstatus
SV packet 66.220.21.18:27243 : getstatus
SV packet 217.235.6.73:1145 : getstatus


lots of them actually?

what does this mean??

is someone trying to ping me? hack me? or connect to me?

When people connect to gamespy, they are given a list of servers ip numbers. Their gamespy program then does a getstatus against each server to find out how many players are playing, the current maps, etc.

Each of those getstatus lines is a players computer retrieving the state of your server.

(This isn't limited to gamespy..All Seeing Eye and any other program that connects on the 12300 port will generate that message)

And then GS and ASE team up to form. . .BUM BUM BUM. . . MECHA-GAME SERVER!!! Umm. . .yeah. . .