Server registration

[X-Ray_Dog]

Ok so I decided to run a server and had it set to not register or even attempt to register with the master server yet I had a client connect through the MS. I was hosting a fun little game with a few friends from ac, and one actually came in just through the master server. Is this some sort of serious bug or something?

My log:
logging local AssaultCube server (version 1104, protocol 1132/104) now..
read 30 map rotation entries from 'config\maprot.cfg'
read 9 admin passwords from 'config\serverpwd.cfg'
read 30 (31) blacklist entries from 'config\serverblacklist.cfg', 0 errors
read 0 + 2 entries from nickname blacklist file 'config\nicknameblacklist.cfg', 0 errors
dedicated server started, waiting for clients...
Ctrl-C to exit
looking up localhost...
WARNING: could not connect
(connections start here as normal...)

Then doing a /connect worked fine yet one client stated that they connected through the master server. What could have happened?

Oh and also, it was a first time connect through the MS.

[jamz]

Oh and also, it was a first time connect through the MS.

What does that mean?

Is it possible you ran the server without using the -m switch first, then closed it and ran it again with -mlocalhost?
If so, your server would have been registered briefly, and still been in the MS list.

[X-Ray_Dog]

I ran the server with the -mlocalhost switch only and had only run the newly created server once but apparently it registered with the master for a connecting client. What I mean exactly is that the person that connected had not previously connected and it was his first time to enter the server directly through the master server.

In addition to:
The server had not been run for some time so I know he didn't do a /connect. The server is not advertised anywhere either so the only way for him to have connected was through the MS as he claims.

[Thrawn]

Oh and also, it was a first time connect through the MS.

I'm pretty sure the reason he mentioned it is because he knows that if you /connect to a server that isn't registered with the masterserver, it will be added to the list of servers, and appear to be on the masterserver list

[tempest]

How would you even know that he connected "through" the master server?

EDIT: Oh wait, does that

one client stated that they connected through the master server.

mean a guy said in the chat that he came to your server through an entry in the server browser?

[Gibstick]

tempest: probably, yes.

[flowtron]

It's also possible that the IP was registered by somebody else - it's a very theoretical explanation, but not entirely impossible. More likely, I'd say, was that the client in question was using some script to include your IP into the list of servers.

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