-- On Apr 08, 12:49, Alex Brett wrote: > Michael McKoy wrote: > >My point has never been that there is a technical reason you couldn't use > >any port you want. My point was simply that most people, though in > >particular game server providers, traditionally use ports starting at > >27015 and up. As another person posted to the list, they had over 90 > >customers on port 27030. VAC2 has disrupted their business and forced them > >to move these customers. > > > >A bunch of you seem hell bent on bashing me for a bad choice of words in > >my first post, which I tried to correct, while ignoring the issue I tried > >to get addressed: > > > >VAC2 binds itself to 0.0.0.0:27030 and there's no way for us to change > >that, and it has affected many people's server setups. It should obey the > >-ip parameter, and perhaps even a -vac2port parameter. > > > > This has caused problems as well for GSPs that have hlds and srcds on > the same box, where the srcds has started binding port 27030 when it was > being used for an hlds server - it now means that they have to make sure > that hlds is started BEFORE srcds...
The problem is the same with two srcds servers. The first take the port 27030, so the second will use 27031, and this is not what we want (and what the customer/player is waiting for). -- Thiesson Johann -- Content-Description: Digital signature [ signature.asc of type application/pgp-signature deleted ] -- _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
