Post by darkblood18 on Dec 14, 2021 15:55:18 GMT -5
Hi all
Me and some friends have been running a cluster of 4-5 Ark servers for some years now, but due to the cooling down of interest in the game, we just moved our servers from rented services to a computer inside the house of one of the admins. So despite our experience in running servers we ran into another one of Ark's shortcomings: the owner of the machine cannot transfer between servers now, as he is in the same LAN as the machine. (Isn't it wonderful how you can still run into these "WildCardisms" even after years of play).
To be clear, if you are hearing of this for the first time: everyone else can transfer fine and the cluster is working as it should. It is just this one guy (who's paying the electric bill btw) who cannot. That is because clustering does not go well with LANs, this is a known ARK problem (since early 2016 at least), the whole point of this message is to see if people know of new-ish workarounds.
So, the two best threads we found were:
arkservermanager.freeforums.net/thread/5745/clusters-on-lan
arkservermanager.freeforums.net/thread/7933/unable-transfer-server-clusters-lan
Summin up: it will only work if: (1) you do enable NAT loopback in your router; or (2) use a VPN.
Sadly for us, the guys router doesn't seem to support loopback and the VPN has some quirks to it (mainly it is either paid or kinda slow, and if he tries to turn it on just to do transfers, he tends do desync/disconnect).
There is also some tutorials around about setting up a Windows Loopback adapter, but those are even older and seem geared towards Windows 7. We are getting bad results in windows 10.
So we are wondering if new options have sprung up since those threads were posted, or if this is it. I feel this is a good place to ask since there are so many server admins around, despite not being an ASM related question (which we do use, but has nothing to do with this).
Me and some friends have been running a cluster of 4-5 Ark servers for some years now, but due to the cooling down of interest in the game, we just moved our servers from rented services to a computer inside the house of one of the admins. So despite our experience in running servers we ran into another one of Ark's shortcomings: the owner of the machine cannot transfer between servers now, as he is in the same LAN as the machine. (Isn't it wonderful how you can still run into these "WildCardisms" even after years of play).
To be clear, if you are hearing of this for the first time: everyone else can transfer fine and the cluster is working as it should. It is just this one guy (who's paying the electric bill btw) who cannot. That is because clustering does not go well with LANs, this is a known ARK problem (since early 2016 at least), the whole point of this message is to see if people know of new-ish workarounds.
So, the two best threads we found were:
arkservermanager.freeforums.net/thread/5745/clusters-on-lan
arkservermanager.freeforums.net/thread/7933/unable-transfer-server-clusters-lan
Summin up: it will only work if: (1) you do enable NAT loopback in your router; or (2) use a VPN.
Sadly for us, the guys router doesn't seem to support loopback and the VPN has some quirks to it (mainly it is either paid or kinda slow, and if he tries to turn it on just to do transfers, he tends do desync/disconnect).
There is also some tutorials around about setting up a Windows Loopback adapter, but those are even older and seem geared towards Windows 7. We are getting bad results in windows 10.
So we are wondering if new options have sprung up since those threads were posted, or if this is it. I feel this is a good place to ask since there are so many server admins around, despite not being an ASM related question (which we do use, but has nothing to do with this).