I have been having these same issues for the last week or two. It has basically killed both my TF2 servers. I have tried all the ideas here, and everything listed in the steam forums. I even tried running a server from a different IP and a different machine. Re-install, re-update, still no bueno. New DNS servers didn't help either
I get a lot of timeouts when trying to update and I get unsuccessful connection to the VAC server when the server launches. Having to retry 10 times to get in will make sure the server stays empty until there is a fix. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Saint K. Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 12:57 PM To: 'Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list' Subject: Re: [hlds] Invalid STEAM UserID Ticket hell Thanks for the suggestions, but the servers and network connection are working flawlessly. So all we can do is hope for VALVe to fix it. Cheers, -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Namens Kevin Ottalini Verzonden: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 8:26 PM Aan: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list Onderwerp: Re: [hlds] Invalid STEAM UserID Ticket hell There seem to be a few ways this happens. One is if the Steam servers are being twiddled or just need a bit of a kick. Another is where players need to log out of Steam and log back in to renew their ticket - might also be flagged as a "no steam logon". Steam tickets seem to need to be renewed every few weeks, occasionally I'll see clusters of players all having this same problem at the same time - players will try joining the server over and over only to be kicked after a few seconds, not quite enough time to tell them what to do to fix the problem. If there is a big update being uploaded to the content servers there also occasionally seems to be a ticket problem that just clears up by itself after a little while. One thing you can check on is if all the players having problems have STEAM_0: or all STEAM_1: IDs If they are all one or the other then one of the AUTH servers might be having problems. I just today started seeing a bit of this on my HLDM (HL1) server today: Error verifying STEAM UserID Ticket(server was unable to contact the authentication server). I logged the client out and logged back in and the problem went away (for me anyway). If your server has a chronic problem with this happening (IE: none of the above apply) then your server or the server's network might be having a problem of some kind. Try running pingplotter (www.pingplotter.com) from and to your server for a few days and see if you see a network outage along the way in sync with your players all dropping. Pingplotter is very low overhead and won't affect the server (or client) performance. 10 or 15 second intervals seem to work fine for this sort of checking. qUiCkSiLvEr ----- Original Message ----- From: "Saint K." To: "'Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list'" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 11:38 AM Subject: [hlds] Invalid STEAM UserID Ticket hell > Hi, > From about 2 weeks ago our servers keep experiencing this bug, and it > keeps emptying the servers from time to time. > > Player wL.75 - Άямα left the game (Invalid STEAM UserID Ticket) > > Anyone knows if we can do something about this, or is this just pure a > steam error? > > Cheers, > > Saint K. _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
