Re: Locating Quake3 servers with Superscan port scanner?

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From: NuQ
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 18:45

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Mark wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> I am trying to use the Superscan port scanner to locate
> Quake3 servers on my ISP's netblock (I'm hoping for
> some low-ping servers to play on.)
> 
> I have tested Superscan with several known working
> Quake3 servers. Some of them provide a host response,
> others do not. I have tried various probe text strings:
> 
> 255255255255getchallenge\n
> 255255getchallenge\n
> 255getchallenge\n
> 
> and so on.
> 
> The servers that respond don't even care whether
> there is a probe text string. The servers that don't
> respond don't care what string I provide. They ignore
> my port probe.
> 
> Has anyone here been able to use Superscan to
> successfully locate Quake3 servers?

I think most people use the in-game server browser, or GameSpy, or 
All-Seeing Eye and sort by lowest ping.  No need to use Superscan.

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