dimeRocker Unity MasterServer Now Online

For those of you who need an alternative solution to the Unity Technologies hosted servers, dimeRocker is pleased to offer dR hosted servers: a Unity MasterServer, NAT Facilitator and Connection Tester conveniently located in North America.

While you’re at it, sign-up so we can keep you posted on all the social gaming APIs we are developing specifically for Unity that will allow devs like yourselves to deploy, enrich, recoup and manage your games across the web from one centralized source. Sign-up here: http://dimerocker.com/devsignup/

dR Server deets:
masterserver.dimerocker.com
port: 12345

connectiontester.dimerocker.com
port: 10735

facilitator.dimerocker.com
port: 50000

The IPs for these servers may change, but the subdomains will always point where you need to go. You will need to resolve the URLs to IPs to connect from within your Unity game. Here’s snippets to do that.

Javascript:

var masterServerUrl = "masterserver.dimerocker.com";
var ip = System.Net.Dns.GetHostEntry (masterServerUrl);
var ipA = ip.AddressList;

if (ipA.Length > 0)
{
  MasterServer.ipAddress = ipA[0].ToString();
  MasterServer.port = 12345;
}

var connectionTesterUrl = "connectiontester.dimerocker.com";
ip = System.Net.Dns.GetHostEntry (connectionTesterUrl);
ipA = ip.AddressList;

if (ipA.Length > 0)
{
  Network.connectionTesterIP = ipA[0].ToString();
  Network.connectionTesterPort = 10735;
}

var natFacilitatorUrl = "facilitator.dimerocker.com";
ip = System.Net.Dns.GetHostEntry (natFacilitatorUrl);
ipA = ip.AddressList;

if (ipA.Length > 0)
{
  Network.natFacilitatorIP = ipA[0].ToString();
  Network.natFacilitatorPort = 50000;
}

C#:

using System.Net;

string masterServerUrl = "masterserver.dimerocker.com";
IPHostEntry ip = Dns.GetHostEntry (masterServerUrl);
IPAddress[] ipA = ip.AddressList;

if (ipA.Length > 0)
{
  MasterServer.ipAddress = ipA[0].ToString();
  MasterServer.port = 12345;
}

string connectionTesterUrl = "connectiontester.dimerocker.com";
ip = Dns.GetHostEntry (connectionTesterUrl);
ipA = ip.AddressList;

if (ipA.Length > 0)
{
  Network.connectionTesterIP = ipA[0].ToString();
  Network.connectionTesterIP = 10735;
}

string natFacilitatorUrl = "facilitator.dimerocker.com";
ip = Dns.GetHostEntry (natFacilitatorUrl );
ipA = ip.AddressList;

if (ipA.Length > 0)
{
  Network.facilitatorIP= ipA[0].ToString();
  Network.facilitatorPort = 50000;
}

EDIT:

As Leepo from wooglie.com points out, using the .Net System assembly can result in ~800K being added to your game, so this may not be an ideal solution for web games.

As an alternative, you can use a getip.php script on our server, which will resolve an url for you.

You’ll want to do it as a Coroutine, and before you make any network connection tests or poll the master server.

For example:

C#:

StartCoroutine(GetServerIPs());

while (!gotIPs)
    yield return new WaitForSeconds(0.1f);

IEnumerator GetServerIPs()
{
    // masterserver
    WWW www = new WWW("http://www.dimerocker.com/api/getip.php?url=masterserver.dimerocker.com");

    while (!www.isDone)
        yield return new WaitForSeconds(0.1f);

    string masterServerIP = www.data;

    MasterServer.ipAddress = masterServerIP;
    MasterServer.port = 12345;

    // connection tester
    www = new WWW("http://www.dimerocker.com/api/getip.php?url=connectiontester.dimerocker.com");

    while (!www.isDone)
        yield return new WaitForSeconds(0.1f);

    string connectionTesterIP = www.data;

    Network.connectionTesterIP = connectionTesterIP;
    Network.connectionTesterPort = 10735;

    // nat facilitator
    www = new WWW("http://www.dimerocker.com/api/getip.php?url=facilitator.dimerocker.com");

    while (!www.isDone)
        yield return new WaitForSeconds(0.1f);

    string natFacilitatorIP = www.data;

    Network.natFacilitatorIP = natFacilitatorIP;
    Network.natFacilitatorPort = 50000;

    gotIPs = true;

    yield break;
}

Tagged as: Connection Tester, NAT Facilitator, social gaming API, Unity MasterServer