Issues with the Master Server?

[Neckhole]

In trying to determine why so few people are connecting to our server (The Potato Patch) we realized that the Master server seems to be incredibly lagged.

I patiently waited for the Master server to return the servers to the list, when I noticed that very few servers were retrieved, and most distressing our server was not queried at all by the master server.

Now, we've tried a few things like restarting the server to force a new heartbeat to the master server. But that didn't seem to work.

There also seem to be threads popping up in the forums :

http://tremulous.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=3154
http://tremulous.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=3266

I'm inclined to think there's an issue with the master server, but I'm not entirely sure.  I was hoping someone in the community would be able to provide me/us with a bit more information

PS:  For those of you not pulling up any servers, if you'd like to manually connect, our server (the Potato Patch) is:

tremulous.patshead.com:30720

But with the Master Server problems, its been a bit empty this evening.

[Rawr]

r1ch did it!  :evil:  :evil:  :evil:

[treminator]

Yeah, I'm pretty sure it's jacked up.  I was getting no servers at all, then triplicates of each shortly thereafter.  Fortunately, I have all the server IP(s) written down on a piece of paper and taped to my wrist like a quarterback.  So I can still play.

[OverFlow]

There were some issues with a server spamming the master server, a kind of (we think) unintentional DoS kind of attack.  So now there's a limit on the number of gamestat updates a server can send to the master per unit of time.

Everything should be fine now!

[Neckhole]

Thanks for the update, I noticed everything seemed back to normal earlier today.