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games that offer the option to self-host dedicated servers often have a central "master" server. dedicated servers advertise themselfs to the master server and clients can ask the master server for a list of servers. might be that the comment was talking about a server like that.
the master server for ut 2k4 that was run by epic had to be replaced by one from the community for two years now for example.
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all ut games have community run master servers thread at ut99.org
As someone who played a lot of U2:XMP back in the day, I can confirm this is the case. Honestly I'm not sure why Epic killed their master servers, since it seems like something that can run on a toaster in a supply closet, but good that it was relatively easy for the community to reverse engineer and adopt.