Re: Quake problem?

[ambrose () MMAE ENGR UCF EDU (Ambrose Feinstein)]

Matt Watson writes:
> Well, i haven't played quake in a long time, but to my knowledge, quake
> doesn't give away the ip addresses  of everybody logged in, so yes its
> still a bug, but since the server doesn't give away the address, its a
> little difficult to accomplish since you'd have to know the ip address in
> avdance..

a netquake server will give anyone the names and ips of the current
players.  if you are playing, just type "status" in the console.  you
could also use the udp query interface, via a tool such as qstat
(http://www.activesw.com/people/steve/qstat.html).  both these
questionable features do not exist in qw and q2; only the server
console (and game dll, in q2) can get the ips of the clients.  (qw and
q2 dont have the bug of dropping you if they get a duplicate connect
from your ip; however, other mischief is possible if you know the
other players ip.)