I got the word that Valve is working on this problem.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Craig Collinson" To: "Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 9:54 PM Subject: Re: [hlds] Invalid STEAM UserID Ticket hell > currently getting this at the moment. have tried rebooting. restarting > steam > logging out then back in. deleting the client registry.blob etc > > getting a new error tho > > invalid certificate length 0/2048 > > more time spent on speeding the servers up and keeping them online rather > then using ur resources on other things such as pointless updates no one > wants, delisting servers etc the list go's on > > > On 19/03/2008, 1nsane . wrote: >> >> 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 >> 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" < >> > killer>> > 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
