Vac is down for a bunch of servers. And the steam user graph has a very interesting DROP: http://www.steampowered.com/v/index.php?area=stats
Valve?! You sleeping yet? Steam is dying :(. On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 11:45 PM, Darren Gordon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yeah I hadn't been having this happen until today but I've also had > Friends disconnected me at least a half dozen times so I'm beginning to > think the two are linked. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of 1nsane . > Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 8:17 PM > To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list > Subject: Re: [hlds] Invalid STEAM UserID Ticket hell > > 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 > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
