SA:MP Custom announce.exe that supports secondary IPs

[LFA]

The default announce.exe doesn't support secondary IPs on Windows. This forces you to run your samp servers on the primary IP if you want them to be on the internet servers list.

 

To use the custom announce.exe simply replace the default announce.exe with the one in the zip.

 

To have TCAdmin replace the exe automatically after the game server is created:

 

• Place announce.exe in the TCAdmin2\Monitor\Tools folder.
  
• Create a custom batch script for the after created event with this script:
  

copy /y %TCAdminFolder%\Monitor\Tools\announce.exe %ThisService_RootDirectory%

 

.NET 3.5 is required. You already have it installed if you are running v2.

announce.zip

Edited January 24, 2013 by LFA

[Bubka3]

Can I post this on the SAMP forums (with proper credit to you)?

[LFA]

sure

[Bubka3]

LOL, the idiots deleted it. Well, guess the fix remains in the hands of TCAdmin clients.

[LFA]

Did they mention why it was deleted? It was actually someone in one of your threads there that suggested creating a custom announce script. http://forum.sa-mp.com/showthread.php?t=268045

Edited January 24, 2013 by LFA

[Bubka3]

No, I just refresh the page it said Invalid thread. I have no PMs, infractions, or emails. It's pretty typical of them. I would ask why but I don't have the slightest clue on how to contact anyone. And a warning for our other members: SAMP has the most highest fraud rate I've ever seen. The only chargebacks I every got was for SAMP services. We're going to start doing it again with manual processing in the future soon.

[Bubka3]

I looked through the rules and it might be because I had no source.

 

IE: "Scripts or other programmed things released on these forums MUST include all source."

Retrieved from: http://forum.sa-mp.com/showthread.php?t=64144

[LFA]

Here you go.

 

    class Program
   {
       static string logname="announce.log";
       static void Main(string[] args)
       {
           var prgName = System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location;
           var path = new System.IO.FileInfo(prgName).DirectoryName;
           System.IO.Directory.SetCurrentDirectory(path);

           WriteLog("TCAdmin - The Game Hosting Control Panel");
           WriteLog(string.Empty);

           if (File.Exists(logname))
               File.Delete(logname);

           var port = 0;
           if (args.Length == 1 && int.TryParse(args[0], out port))
           {
               var sampver = GetSampVersion();
               WriteLog("SA-MP    : v{0}", sampver);
               var request = (HttpWebRequest)HttpWebRequest.Create(string.Format("http://server.sa-mp.com/{0}/announce/{1}", sampver, port));
               request.ServicePoint.BindIPEndPointDelegate = new BindIPEndPoint(BindIPEndPointCallback);
               request.Referer = "http://Bonus";
               request.UserAgent = "SAMP/0.30";
               request.Accept = "*/*";
               request.ProtocolVersion = new Version("1.0");
               request.KeepAlive = false;
               
               HttpWebResponse response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse();
               WriteLog("Response : {0}", response.StatusDescription);
           }
           else
           {
               WriteLog("Usage: announce.exe <port>");
               System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(5000);
           }
       }

       public static IPEndPoint BindIPEndPointCallback(ServicePoint servicePoint, IPEndPoint remoteEndPoint, int retryCount)
       {
           var config = "server.cfg";
           if (retryCount > 0)
           {
               WriteLog("Error    : Bind to the IP in {0} failed", config);
               return null;
           }

           if (File.Exists(config))
           {
               using (var reader = new StreamReader(new FileStream(config, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read, FileShare.ReadWrite)))
               {
                   var contents = reader.ReadToEnd();
                   var regex = new Regex(@"^[\s]*bind[\s]+(?<bind>\b\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\b)", RegexOptions.IgnoreCase | RegexOptions.Multiline);
                   var match = regex.Match(contents);
                   if (match.Success)
                   {
                       WriteLog("Bind     : {0}", match.Groups["bind"].Value);
                       return new IPEndPoint(IPAddress.Parse(match.Groups["bind"].Value), new System.Random().Next(5000, 7000));
                   }
                   else
                       WriteLog("Could not find bind in {0}", config);
               }
           }

           return null;
       }

       public static void WriteLog(string output, params object[] arg)
       {
           Console.WriteLine(output, arg);
           File.AppendAllText(logname, string.Format(output, arg) + "\r\n");
       }

       public static string GetSampVersion()
       {
           var executable = "samp-server.exe";
           if (!File.Exists(executable))
           {
               WriteLog("Error    : {0} does not exist", executable);
               return "0.3.4";
           }

           FileVersionInfo sampver = FileVersionInfo.GetVersionInfo(executable);
           var ver = sampver.FileVersion;
           if (ver.EndsWith(".0"))
               ver = ver.Substring(0, ver.LastIndexOf(".0"));

           return ver;
       }
   }

[cyber_punk]

bind works just fine in samp for hosting other servers. No one ever has to use a custom announce to appear on the internet list. How do you think other hosting companies host more than one server?

[LFA]

bind in server.cfg works with secondary IPs. The default announce.exe didn't support secondary IPs at the time this was created. I'm not sure if they fixed it or not. http://forum.sa-mp.com/showthread.php?t=268045

Edited November 12, 2013 by LFA

[gijs007]

Nope, using other IP's than the default is still broken on Windows with the standard SA-MP files (although on Linux it works fine.). Even after all these years and several reports they haven't bothered fixing it.

 

It's good to see that there is a third party fix for this, although I suppose I don't really need it since I've set SA-MP up to use the primary IP.

Edited August 20, 2016 by gijs007