[UNET] Is there an alternative for MasterServer.RequestHostList in UNET?

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Is it possible to advertise and discover server IP address?

In other words, is there a way how to get a list of available servers (or their IPs) in local network without knowing their IP addresses in advance?

As far as I know, right now, the remote client needs to know the IP of the server. I want to remove that burden from the user and just give them a list of servers that are available to choose from.

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Answer by g-pechorin · Jul 13, 2015 at 11:43 AM

Look to the olde-ways of the pagans

Not sure about UNET, but if ...

You (or UNET) can dip in/out of sockets
- I'm not suggesting you implement the whole darn game as broadcast packets - just the discovery bits
- ... might not "jive" with Unity-on-a-shoebox
your user's network doesn't block broadcast packets
- I think ... Napster? Kazzaa? used broadcast packets
- ... so some admins liked to block them - not sure if this is still in-vouge
- if the free router that came from your ISP doesn't block them I'd say go for it
- ... and a locked-down network probably will block games anyway - right?

... so you have servers/unity-app/whatnot;

shout "I'm a game" every X time intervals when they want connections
have your unity-app listen for "I'm a game" messages and add the senders to a list
drop list entries that're too old

... that would do it ... right?

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fantom642 · Jul 13, 2015 at 11:55 AM 0

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If I knew how to send packets that could be received by anyone around that would be simple indeed. I've tried AllJoyn, but even that didn't work in 100% of cases. What I'm looking for is rather some built-in solution that comes within UNET (if it even exists).

fantom642 · Jul 13, 2015 at 02:04 PM 0

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I have changed my question to be more specific

[UNET] Is there an alternative for MasterServer.RequestHostList in UNET?

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