[SonicSpinner]

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?

[Mazzic]

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)

[Bazooka_Joe]

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