Fellow Server Operators and Valve Readers, I have gotten into the habit of checking my TF2 servers to make sure they are appearing in the Valve master server list because about every week or so they just stop showing up and my player counts fall through the floor. At least one or more of my servers will just randomly stop showing up in the server list while the others show up just fine. It's not always the same one(s) and I have no idea why it happens. If I simply restart the server(s), they still won't show again until I run the HLDSupdatetool on them, even when there's nothing to be updated. After running the update tool and seeing no updates, the broken servers begin to show up in the list again after they restart. I just ran an experiment and copied the InstallRecord.blob file from a working server I had just run the empty update on to one that still didn't show up in the server list. I restarted it and it showed up correctly after receiving the new InstallRecord.blob file from the other server. WTF? Has anyone else noticed this and/or know how to stop it from happening? It's very frustrating to find my servers simply gone from the list and running empty. Thanks in advance for any advice. Mike V.
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