Ingame Spider

Well oldschool port switching still works, ie actually changing the port, instead of just hiding it.
Not true, this worked once for me, but doesn't work anymore..
Then you are doing something wrong, cause it works for me
when i try to ping monster.idsoftware.com , it doesnt respond.also,since som days ago, ingame browser is empty.same for everyone here?
the hard part is getting other servers to report to you, and users to use your master
the masterserver currently lists 2 e+ servers.. and most of the servers are fading away.. this is really killing the scene

@ Server owners/admins,
With looking closer i realised that the servers having port hidding/rotating scripts were the first touched by that strange phenomenon
How do i know if i have this hiding/rotating???
Any sollutions yet for the master server?
something probably changed with the config of these master servers...
i used to use phgstats as a spider on my website, but since these master-servers troubles started, phgstats returns me an error :
[code:1]Notice: fwrite() [function.fwrite]: send of 14 bytes failed with errno=1 Operation not permitted in /***/***/***/public/www/phgstats/classes/q3a.class.php on line 104[/code:1]
with no change on my hosting/website....