It’s “hold your breath time” as we get near to the GameSpy shutdown and the switch-over to Epic’s new in-house master server. Bubbaaxm2 reported in the UT3 forums that it should be up and running next week. It looks like it will entail a replacement of your UT3.exe file.
More concerning is the long list of questions that were asked by RattleSN4K3. One of them relates to the server query ports that server monitors use. Potentially, the Gametracker server monitors (like the one’s on this site) will no longer function unless they are modified by Gametracker. If that takes much more effort than lifting one, maybe two fingers, I don’t see them putting the effort in for a old game like UT3. We will see…