Host Check

Get latency and distance information of players in peer hosted Xbox Live matchmaking.

Platform Requirements

Ubuntu or Debian server routing Xbox 360 Xbox Live traffic.

Features

• Host detection
• Latency measurements to all players (traceroute)
• Address based location lookups for all players
• Distance calculations for all players

Additional Software Requirements

1. conntrack
2. traceroute
3. geoiplookup
4. whois

Install Packages

sudo apt-get install conntrack traceroute geoip-bin whois -y

Download GeoLiteCity database

wget -N http://geolite.maxmind.com/download/geoip/database/GeoLiteCity.dat.gz
gunzip GeoLiteCity.dat.gz
mv GeoLiteCity.dat /usr/share/GeoIP/GeoIPCity.dat

Notes

1. Outgoing traceroute requests must not be blocked.

2. Xbox IP address must be in private address space as described in RFC 1918