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[theredfox]

my server won't show up early in the steam internet search no matter what i do. i have tried all 5 of my ips, tried changing ports, set the sv_region flag to both east and west coast, and nothing will get it to show up any earlier than 1300. does anyone know what i can do?

[HBS|Ryan]

there isnt anything you can do. it might work its way up the list evntually over time from other servers being removed but other than that i have no idea

[Mooga]

did you use your ip from http://www.whatismyip.org ?
Do you have portforwarding set up?

[theredfox]

yes i did use the correct ip, matches with that site.

I am not using port forwarding. I don't know how to do that. I am using FreeBSD 7. My server is at a datacenter, I can only connect via ssh.

[css]

theredfox Wrote:my server won't show up early in the steam internet search no matter what i do. i have tried all 5 of my ips, tried changing ports, set the sv_region flag to both east and west coast, and nothing will get it to show up any earlier than 1300. does anyone know what i can do?

You can't do anything, but that's OK. Your server will be first to someone.

What is your datacenter IP? What is your IP?

The steam masterservers will start distributing servers near your IP. For example if you have IP 1.2.3.4 and your server has IP 6.7.8.9, then you'll see your server very "far" in the list. However, someone with IP 6.7.8.10 will probably see your server as first. It's that kind of neat logic in the Steam masterservers. The IPs which are similar to your IP most likely have good ping. That's why it's good to first send those IPs to whoever is asking.

Read rest of the details at:
http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Master_Server_Query_Protocol