Been happening a lot to me today. Guess some steam server exploded for a
while. 5 people join... 6 get the error. And the story repeats. Luckily
today is the only time it's been happening this bad to me.

On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 9:16 PM, "[ЯтR] The-/<iller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

> We don't get this error often but it does happen least 3-4 times a month
> and completely random, server is full and boom completely empty.
>
> NukePaste wrote:
> > 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.
> >>
> >
> >
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