Server drops from master list - unrecoverable

[Samoht]

I have been seeing Aerobatics Online continue to drop from the ED master list. This has been happening more frequently. In all cases, there are indications in the dcs.log that the server has dropped offline, however, the only way to recover the server is to restart it. As of right now, I'm catching three conditions:

 

 

2019-11-19 05:50:52.233 ERROR DCS: Failed to get authorization data. Error code is: 502

 

 

or

 

 

2019-11-19 19:41:36.446 ERROR NET: Session check failed: 401

 

 

or

 

 

2019-11-24 03:00:08.839 ERROR NET: HTTP request dcs:checksession failed with error 28: Timeout was reached

 

 

Once these start appearing, the server is guaranteed to be off of the master server and the only way to get it back is to restart DCS. As you can see from the date stamps, these are all recent errors.

 

 

There are two issues here: 1) something is happening with the master server <--> game client where the application enters an error state, and 2) the game client running DCS Dedicated does not know how to recover from this error state. These are independent issues and ideally, both things should be fixed.

 

 

This seems to be happening more as of late, but these problems seem to have been a part of DCS world for about the last six months. Logs attached.

logs.zip

[BIGNEWY]

Hi

 

thanks for the data,

 

When you see the server drop out can your do a tracert to the master server.

 

It is difficult to establish if this is a master server issue, or ISP or server hop somewhere on route which could be having timeouts.

[Samoht]

I actually don't know the address of the master server. I could probably figure it out, but if you have a quick reference to it, paste it here. I'll see about adding some additional diagnostics that get performed when my session manager catches those error conditions and forces a server restart.

[DLEGION]

my dedicated server keeps disappearing too.

i checked ports on my side, all seems fine.

if i do a server NOT dedicated (so from my own gaming PC) it always show up.

mah.