Dedicated Server Offline Bug - Client and Server on Same Host

[Mr. Scoot]

Anyone else notice this

I'm noticing a bug where the windows version of the server doesn't accept players when empty. If I start the server people can join but once it empties out the server will no longer accept clients until it's restarted.

Steps to repro
1) Start a dedicated server on windows and join it
1a) Other players can join too
2) Leave the dedicated server and make sure it's empty
3) Dedicated server seems to go offline although everything looks fine in the server console until restarted. The server will always accept a client on start but once it empties out it looks like no more clients can join until a restart.

Edit: added that this is the windows build of the dedicated server, haven't tested on linux

[Zak]

Your own LAN server or hosted?

[Mr. Scoot]

Self hosted. It works fine (except you can't do the onboarding phase on a dedicated server still) until it's empty then it requires a restart.

[Zak]

Yeah, I noticed that too: no onboarding. Have you updated or clean installed? I only play by myself now, also Windows, but I have no problems reconnecting. Did you disable the Auto Pause option?

I also did a completely clean install, nuked the settings, saves and the Steam game folder and started from zero.

[Mr. Scoot]

Clean install and autopause makes no difference. Possible cause is that I was hosting the dedicated server on the same system as the game, although this worked fine in Update 8.
I moved everything over to my linux box and it's working fine now.

[LCD]

I'm having this same issue. only fix is to reboot server. you can only join once.

[Mr. Scoot]

I ended up moving my server to a different computer. The workaround I've been using is just not launching the client on the same machine as the dedicated server.

https://questions.satisfactorygame.com/post/66e08561772a987f4a8a9d67

[510V]

same question, but i running in different pc.
I think The listening port will be disconnected after all players go offline