My servers are not showing up anymore?!?

[Aslan]

About two weeks ago I noticed that my normally full servers suddenly started losing attendance. Nothing had changed on the settings but a couple of days ago one of the regulars mentioned to me that the servers don't show up in the ingame server scanner anymore. I checked myself and sure enough, they don't. I have three servers and their heartbeats are turned on using the following lines in their config files. This has worked fine up until just recently.

sv_master2 ""
sv_master3 ""
sv_master4 ""
sv_master5 ""

I have never had to specify master1 because it defaults to master3.idsoftware.com anyway.

Another curious thing, if I put master3.idsoftware.com into gamespy, it gives me back a list of servers - but only about 150. The ingame browser finds ~2,000.

It appears that master3 is no longer the right master, but if so, why does the ingame browser still find 2,000 servers?

AAAAHHHHHH!

Since then I have added master0.gamespy.com to my heartbeats in hopes that I can drum up some business via gamespy, but obviously dropping off the server scan list ingame is hurting my server bigtime.

Can anyone shed some light on this?

Thanks,
Aslan

[Dekard]

Master1&2 are actually hardcoded into the game.

master 1 being id master, and master 2 being gamespy.. remember all that shiznet ad spammage with your Q3 cd? That was one of the perks gamespy got out of the deal. http://gameadmins.com/ubb/smile.gif

[Aslan]

Ah, I had *thought* that my servers were showing up on gamespy prior to directly specifying master0.gamespy.com, but I could not remember for certain, so I didn't mention that.

But my real quest is still: why don't my servers show up in Q3's internal server browser? They used to and I cannot see that I have changed anything that could affect that.