lobby login problems (i still look logged in)

BrainDamage · Post by **BrainDamage** » 10 Oct 2006, 19:35

i had a crash with my lobby client, and i closed it; when i tried to reopen it but it told me i was already logged in...
a friend of mine told me i still looked like i was connectied (displayed in the list)
how much time do have i to wait until the lobby server will discover that i've lost the connection? (if it does it)

BrainDamage · Post by **BrainDamage** » 10 Oct 2006, 19:36

whoops i replied by accident instead of editing my post, ignore this message

BrainDamage · Post by **BrainDamage** » 10 Oct 2006, 19:41

Brain Damage wrote:i had a crash with my lobby client, and i closed it; when i tried to reopen it it couldn't connect and it told me i was already logged in...
a friend of mine told me i still looked like i was connectied (displayed in the list)
how much time do have i to wait until the lobby server will discover that i've lost the connection? (if it does it)

AF · Post by AF » 10 Oct 2006, 19:44

anywhere between 2 seconds to 8 minutes

The problem is known about and it was deemed unnecesary to fix it by the people in charge.

BrainDamage · Post by **BrainDamage** » 10 Oct 2006, 20:07

after more than 30 mins i still looked like i was logged in; i've found a solution:
the lobby server seems to keep pinging my IP address to check if i'm alive or not, i still look connectied as long as my ping alive; i rebooted my router --> my ip address changed; so i looked offline to the next ping check of the lobby, then it finally realized i was out of the lobby, and let me reconnect.

perhaps introducing some form of closed loop keep-alive messages to prevent this?

rattle · Post by **rattle** » 10 Oct 2006, 21:34

Server side PING perhaps, every 5 minutes (so it doesn't cause unnecessary traffic). Client could response with PONG uint10-timestamp, at least I'd do it like that.
I'd love to see a server side WHOIS as well (and a few others

).

Post by **hollowsoul** » 10 Oct 2006, 23:43

Lobby Server & Lobby Client ping each other the lobby protocol & lobby port.
Believe its 30 seconds till it times out the client.

Maybe there was a threaded process still running after client died on u.

BrainDamage · Post by **BrainDamage** » 11 Oct 2006, 00:03

just happened again, i checked out the process list and you're right!
after kissing the "ghoost process" i could re-join
sorry i should have checked out before posting, but i did not think about that, i apologize

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