For us, opening the port seems to have solved it. Sorry my conclusion is not a more helpful one for the rest of you. Thanks again for your replies. --- Regime http://www.livebythegun.com/
Parker Lewis wrote: > We have the same issue sporadically. We have no firewall > installed (shame on us Oo). > Due to it's a problem occuring very infrequent, we are > taking it like Whisky does. > > Greets > > ----- Ursprüngliche Mail ---- > Von: Regime <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > An: [email protected] > Gesendet: Dienstag, den 22. August 2006, 16:01:41 Uhr > Betreff: Re: [hlds_linux] Error verifying STEAM UserID Ticket > > Thanks for the replies all.. > I think I may have found the solution to my problem: There was a port > being blocked after all. > The server tried to connect to steam2.steampowered.com over TCP port > 27033. Missed this earlier (oops). > Do any of you having these problems firewall outgoing connections? > This is not a confirmed solution for me yet by the way, as I can't test > it myself. For me it has always worked fine. > We have a war on the server in question tonight, so I'm sure I will find > out (and report back to the list) if this has solved it. > Thanks, > --- > Regime > http://www.livebythegun.com/ > > Matt Albiniak wrote: > >> No, please email the list ([email protected]); we're >> having the same problem, and I can't find the culprit. >> >> On 8/22/06, WhiskyHornan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> We have had this exact problem since late 2005 on our servers. I have >>> tried >>> to find a solution through this list and through Alfred. The only >>> thing that >>> came up on that issue was that we should have connectivity issues, >>> whish was >>> checked and determined to not be true. I have seen this threads about >>> this >>> issue popping up once in a while, but none ever came up with a >>> solution and >>> there has been none acceptable response from Valve, except that the >>> client >>> should delete ClientRegistry.blob file, whish as you say works >>> sometimes and >>> others not. This is a major problem for us as our servers are frequently >>> full and players who stand in line for half an hour finally can >>> connect to >>> the server only to be disconnected by that nice little message. That >>> message >>> comes in conjunction with a message in the server console stating >>> something >>> like "The server was unable to contact the authentication servers." >>> We have >>> tried with firewall of, checked with our ISP if they block something >>> and so >>> forth but we do have a good connection. >>> >>> So what you can do is just accept that it is happening, or try to get >>> Valves >>> attention and not just accept the standard answer "delete >>> ClientRegistry.blob" because it isn't the whole solution. I have >>> given up on >>> it since I came nowhere for three months trying ... But if you do find a >>> solution please inform me if you got the time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
