At 09:06 PM 1/19/2006 -0500, Ray wrote:
>Exactly my point, nothing is in the logs and the server isn't crashed so
>their's no dump. The bottom line is it's impossible for us to help you fix
>what's broken.
Oh, it's not impossible. It's just difficult. There's probably
a command-line flag you can set to put the server into dev mode and
increase the debug level. Who knows? Perhaps there being nothing in
the logs is the clue that's needed -- something that should be logged
not being there is just as important as something being logged with
an error.
The other thought is that server startup only takes a few
seconds, maybe a couple of megs worth of traffic to get registered
and grab VAC. Fire up MS's Netmon or maybe Ethereal and do a packet
capture and send that off. Alfred should be able to take that, filter
on his VAC servers, and see exactly what's going out and coming back.
I don't know Valve's network infrastructure, but chances are it's all
a switched network. Send Alfred a private e-mail with your server IP
and perhaps a schedule of when you'll restart and I bet Alfred will
be able to get some logging enabled, perhaps mirror a server port
and do his own packet capture.
That's how I'd approach it, anyway. Alfred's a busy guy
and I don't want to say he can or will do this, but it seems to me
that this approach gives him something more solid to work with.
- Dan
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