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I used assist gui to install and start server. GUI says everything is fine, it's visible in battletracker (http://battletracker.com/aaoserver/85.14.85.18:1716). However it is not present in assist browser, or sometimes it is, but reported as "offline".

All ports are open, aa 2.8 worked fine in this setup.

Any hints?

OK, did that, waiting for completion.

What is the exact meaning of "Server offline"? No response to server query?

BTW, is the query protocol in aa2.5 same as aa2.8? I don't remember official name of this (gamespy?) but it was initiated by sending something like '\xFE\xFD\x00ping\x00\xFF\x00' to port 1717.

Looked at log file, all is OK. I don't know why its not working.
Make sure there is nothing else running on the server using the same ports.
Try using different ports like 1816,1817

There are many threads on this forum about this issue to help you.

No, 2.8 has been disabled.

One additional fact about browser: I noticed, that when server is visible in browser, but seen as offline, the IP displayed is completely wrong (different country), and it changes from time to time. The rest of info is correct (country flag, map, slots count, round len, etc.) It seems like some incorrect IPs are assigned to the server, and that explains why the server is seen as offline (no query response from those IPs).

This effect is machine specific, e.g. on the server machine, the browser displays the correct IP (and the server is seen as online).

Is it possible to take a look at browser sources? It looks like some browser bug, I can try to find it without taking your time.

I will take a look at the code..
either the ip address recorded in the gamespy server list is wrong, or your server reply on a different address/port, assist does not recognise so just places it on the top of the list.

OK, thanks, I'll check that.

Ok so when I query 70 servers all at once to get the ping times and player lists etc, how am I supposed to know which server the responces came from and put into the correct slots if i can't rely on source IP. Putting a different IP addess on the packet other than the source address is called spoofing.
There are no sockets when using UDP communication, Sockets are for TCP protocol, UDP is a connection-less protocol.

Things are done differenly for the port, becuase of NAT-translation the source port on a packet can be completely random which is why the server port is defined in the gamespy query in field 8. The ip address is not, that should be reliable.

No there is not such option.