I think that was everyone everywhere disconnecting.  We just had 2/3s  
of a team disconnect on one.


On Mar 24, 2008, at 12:10 PM, Saint K. wrote:

> We just had 13 people on 1 server disconnected, and 15 on the other...
>
> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> ] Namens Saint K.
> Verzonden: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 8:57 PM
> Aan: 'Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list'
> Onderwerp: 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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