Add -ping_bind_port flag to change default ping server binding. #135
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When doing DNS hacks to get the Switch to connect to dedicated servers, the target server must be listening on port 19132. This PR enables a user to change the default ping server port so that they can set the bind_port to 19132 to proxy Switch connections.
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Hey @brotchie, thanks for the PR! The listeners are setup with SO_REUSEPORT so that both can run in port 19132. That's because the pings specifically only arrive on port 19132 because the games are hardcoded to broadcast pings on that port to all devices on the network. AFAIK if you change that to any other number, the servers won't show up on the LAN server list anymore. It looks like I missed one of the listeners though, so that didn't fully work before. I just released v0.5.3 to hopefully address the issue you describe in a slightly different way by being able to just do |
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When doing DNS hacks to get the Switch to connect to dedicated servers, the target server must be listening on port 19132. This PR enables a user to change the default ping server port so that they can set the bind_port to 19132 to proxy Switch connections.