Connection timeout during checkspawn ACE8g/ACE8h

[back4more]

hi there,

having a small problem with installing ACE on Linux Server.

I get error 'Connection timeout during Checkspawn' ...disable firewall...

done this and still happening.

also the ACE settings are not added to the .ini so I had to add them manually
from this website


here is some info from .log

[ACEv08h]: - ListenIP : 0.0.0.0
[ACEv08h]: New Definition File Found: ACE_0_0_0_0_7777_new.defs
PackageHelper: File not found: ACE_0_0_0_0_7777_cur.defs - Trying case-insensitive search...
[ACEv08h]: Renamed to: ACE_0_0_0_0_7777_cur.defs
[ACEv08h]: Loading Definitions From: ACE_0_0_0_0_7777_cur.defs
[ACEv08h]: Definitions Loaded - Version: ACE_20101017_A
Resolving utgl.unrealadmin.org...
+--------------------------------------+
|           ACE EventHandler           |
|               BETA v08h              |
|        (c) 2009-2010 - AnthraX       |
+--------------------------------------+
Game engine initialized
UDP recvfrom error: 11 from 0.0.0.0:0

hopefully someone can help ,

Cheers.

[medor]

NAT.txt in the download folder

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for Unreal Tournament
(c) 2009-2010 - AnthraX
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If you run your server behind a NAT router, the server needs to find out its
WAN ip in order to be accessible from the outside. To find out the WAN IP there
are several options:

1) You can manually set the WAN IP of the server. To do this, add the following
lines to your server's ini file:

[ACEv08g_S.ACEActor]
bAutoFindWANIP=false
ForcedWANIP="YourWANIP"

2) The server can query the utgl masterserver to find out its WAN ip. This is
the default setting, you do not need to change any ini settings to use this
option.

3) The server can attempt to query other webservers to find out its WAN ip. To
do this, add the following lines to your server's ini file:

[ACEv08g_S.ACEActor]
WANQueryServer(0)="utgl.unrealadmin.org/ip.php"
WANQueryServer(1)=""
WANQueryServer(2)=""
WANQueryServer(3)=""
WANQueryServer(4)=""
WANQueryServer(5)=""
WANQueryServer(6)=""
WANQueryServer(7)=""
WANQueryServer(8)=""
WANQueryServer(9)=""

You can add up to 10 servers in this list. ACE will query them one by one until
one of the servers returns a valid IP.

4) You can choose to run your server in a LAN only. This is also possible with
the default settings but for performance reasons you might want to add the
following lines to the server's ini file:

[ACEv08g_S.ACEActor]
bAutoFindWANIP=false

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FIREWALL.txt in the download folder

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_______ _______ _______
( ___ )( ____ \( ____ \
| ( ) || ( \/| ( \/
| (___) || | | (__
| ___ || | | __)
| ( ) || | | (
| ) ( || (____/\| (____/\
|/ \|(_______/(_______/

for Unreal Tournament
(c) 2009-2010 - AnthraX
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ACE uses a tcp port on your server to communicate with the players. By default
ACE will try to use <Serverport + 1>. If your server is running at port 7777
for example, ACE will try to use port 7778 (tcp).

If the port is not available due to a conflict with another mod or because the
operating system prevents ACE from binding the port then ACE will try to use
the next available port. If you have UniversalUnreal running at port 7778 for
example, ACE will try to use port 7779 instead.

To prevent ACE from using certain ports, you can specify the ExcludedPorts
options like this:

[ACEv08g_S.ACEActor]
ExcludedPorts=7779:7780:7785

Adding these options to your server's UnrealTournament.ini will prevent ACE
from using ports 7779, 7780 and 7785.

Keep this in mind should you see a lot of "timeouts during check spawn". You
might have to open the ports for incoming tcp data.

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[back4more]

hi Admin thanks mate , yeah I tried all that unfortunately its still timing out.

bit stuck atm.

thanks for your help.

Originally Posted by admin

Keep this in mind should you see a lot of "timeouts during check spawn". You
might have to open the ports for incoming tcp data.

I will look into this again however.

just spotted it tomoz.

In a working environment with iptables, it is supposed that
there are rules to accept traffic, and last rule to deny all.
If that is your case, by adding a new rule with -A,
what you do is to put the new rule AFTER the 'denyying all' rule, so it is never checked.

iptables -I INPUT -p tcp --dport 25 -j ACCEPT

Then, you can save rules as the new rule is in the correct place.