djMot Posted September 8, 2018 Member ID: 3189 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 93 Topic Count: 355 Topics Per Day: 0.08 Content Count: 5230 Content Per Day: 1.18 Reputation: 11104 Achievement Points: 48729 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 112 Joined: 02/11/12 Status: Offline Last Seen: 2 hours ago Birthday: 12/24/1957 Device: Windows Share Posted September 8, 2018 I think it's about time we address this elephant in the room. Q: Why haven't the rotations on the COD5 DM2 server changed lately? A: The redirect server is not permitting FTP access is why? Q: WTF is a "Redirect server"? A: It's the server that dishes up maps to players who don't have them on their local copy of COD5 so they can play in them. It is a separate server from the actual game server itself. The game server could serve up the map, too, but you wouldn't want that to happen because the map would be long over by the time the game server got through sending it to you. The Redirect server is mad-fast at sending maps to you. Thing is, the map files on the Redirect server have to be in sync with (exactly match) the map files on the game servers otherwise bad things happen. Servers crash and go boom and shit like that. Q: So what? Aren't they already in sync? A: Nope. Q: Why TF not??? A: Because the game server hosting company will only allow us to have so many maps on the server at a time. So that means that weekly (or however often a Server Admin decises to change a set of maps) we have to go in and copy a bunch of map folders (the new rotation set) from the redirect over to the game server, change the server map rotation configuration to start using the new maps, then delete all the last rotation's maps off the game server. Since we cannot gain FTP access to the Redirect server at this time, there is no way for us to copy a new rotation's set of map folders over to the game server. Q: Can't you work around this some way? A: Possibly, like using my local copies of the maps here on my computer, but it is more prone to error, and not something I would recommend to Server Admins. To my knowledge, most admins are copying down from the Redirect to their local computer and then copying up to the game server. An easier, more direct method is to use "Beyond Compare", a program that allows copying directly from one FTP server to another. Q: Dude! Why don't you bite the bullet and use the workaround? A: I didn't think it would take over two weeks to fix this! But XI EU-fest and apparently a crisis in another game has taken priority. At this point, I'm hopeful we can fix the situation sooner than later. The longer this takes, the closer we are to a solution, right? Today? Tomorrow? Gotta be soon, right? Sorry for the delay. deerejon, Hunter1948, Dman67 and 2 others 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
deerejon Posted September 8, 2018 Member ID: 842 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 62 Topic Count: 278 Topics Per Day: 0.05 Content Count: 3712 Content Per Day: 0.71 Reputation: 3150 Achievement Points: 28451 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 4 Joined: 12/06/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: Yesterday at 01:34 PM Birthday: 05/04/1965 Device: Windows Share Posted September 8, 2018 And for the freeze tag server...What he said!!! Hunter1948 and djMot 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
XTeKK Posted September 9, 2018 Member ID: 7454 Group: + COD5 Moderator Followers: 13 Topic Count: 7 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 133 Content Per Day: 0.03 Reputation: 50 Achievement Points: 1119 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 04/23/13 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 16 Birthday: 03/28/1969 Device: Windows Share Posted September 9, 2018 When shit happens, we do our best to accommodate the issue. work arounds, or alternatives. Props to our Admins & mods, for their diligent efforts to keep things running smoothly.. ~XTeKK djMot, Hunter1948 and Ramistar 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
Drizit Posted September 11, 2018 Member ID: 26059 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 2 Topic Count: 6 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 51 Content Per Day: 0.02 Reputation: 17 Achievement Points: 347 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 06/22/17 Status: Offline Last Seen: February 7 Birthday: 12/16/1959 Device: Android Share Posted September 11, 2018 I agree as there is a lot going on in the background most goes unnoticed until times like this.... keep up the good work djMot 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
HarryWeezer Posted September 11, 2018 Member ID: 20166 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 40 Topic Count: 611 Topics Per Day: 0.16 Content Count: 7652 Content Per Day: 2.00 Reputation: 7228 Achievement Points: 53663 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 36 Joined: 10/04/13 Status: Offline Last Seen: March 16 Birthday: 10/16/1946 Device: Windows Share Posted September 11, 2018 (edited) I'm ignorant of this process but it sounds very cumbersome and seems to be causing recurring problems. Can smarter people than me recommend a permanent fix which would eliminate all of this regular and very tedious work? Edited September 11, 2018 by HarryWeezer PS. Nice job explaining it dj. djMot 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
djMot Posted September 12, 2018 Member ID: 3189 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 93 Topic Count: 355 Topics Per Day: 0.08 Content Count: 5230 Content Per Day: 1.18 Reputation: 11104 Achievement Points: 48729 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 112 Joined: 02/11/12 Status: Offline Last Seen: 2 hours ago Birthday: 12/24/1957 Device: Windows Author Share Posted September 12, 2018 Thanks, @HarryWeezer. The solution would be to 1) get NFO to drop their disk space constraints, or 2) switch to a game server hosting company that doesn't have disk space constraints. This is the first game server hosting company we've been with (to my knowledge) that has ever imposed a disk space quota on us. Why we are staying with them is above my pay grade. But that said, you may recall a few of the server hosts we've had in the past that were pretty shitty, so there's that. I guess it is what it is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
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