Yea i take that back was happening constantly when i was trying to get a server populated, told clients to restart their steam client and that fixed it for most of them
1nsane . wrote: > 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. >>>> >>>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 >>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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
