I talked to Mr. Dunn about this problem since May and haven't heard from him since.
The problem happens every Steam outage which occurs quite frequently. There was an outage 1 hour ago. Even if your server manages to reconnect to the Steam master list by luck, it will not log back into quickplay, likely killing off many servers. You can see from this graph here, there is about a 10-20% chance of being affected, the number of TF2 servers dropped from 8300 to 7000. http://games.opensteamworks.org/Chart/View/440 On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 1:28 PM, Herover <[email protected]> wrote: > My Counter-Strike Source server goes black sometimes too. I fix for me > was to make a app which constantly checks how many players theres > online and run a console command (stats). > Kinda have a feeling, that when noone ask for something, it starts > sleeping/don't tell it's there. > > 2012/6/17 Team BOOM! <[email protected]>: >> Thank you very much for the reply Peter…. I’ll check it out.. >> >> >> >> Have a great weekend, >> >> Mike >> >> >> >> ________________________________ >> >> From: [email protected] >> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Petar Obradovic >> Sent: Sunday, June 17, 2012 5:35 AM >> To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list >> Subject: Re: [hlds] TF2 Servers Disappearing from Steam Servers List - >> AGAIN! >> >> >> >> If you're familiar with SourceMod and SourcePawn I would suggest you take a >> look at Asherkin's SteamTools extension which provides a >> native Steam_ForceHeartbeat() for other plugins to use, among others. >> >> >> >> SteamTools Main Thread >> >> http://forums.alliedmods.net/showthread.php?t=170630 >> >> >> >> SteamTools Include File (reference) >> >> http://hg.limetech.org/projects/steamtools/raw-file/tip/plugin/steamtools.inc >> >> On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 12:15 AM, Team BOOM! <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> So here we go again. >> >> >> >> All, my TF2 servers are once again randomly dropping from the Steam Master >> server list. One minute I see all my servers full of players. An hour later >> I see them nearly empty. When I see this happen, I look at the server list >> and the servers are not listed again!!! The only way to get them relisted is >> to restart them. This happens at completely random times and only happens to >> my TF2 servers on my dedicated server box, My CSS and DOD servers hosted on >> the same box never disappear. For the love of God will someone from Valve >> address this problem? How can I keep my Community’s server popular and fun >> with this happening? >> >> >> >> Also, can anyone tell me a server command I can execute like the old >> “Heartbeat” command that will force the server to report itself to the >> server list again without a restart? >> >> >> >> Many thanks in advance. >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, >> please visit: >> https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, >> please visit: >> https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds >> > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please > visit: > https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds
