On Friday 11 April 2008, Timo Hilbertz wrote: > some of the master servers are down, some of the content servers do not > respond the way they should. > check netstat, you will find syn_sent. > we have reported this to valve many times, it was ignored. > the only solution i see is to use firewall redirection to avoid the > gameservers connecting to the master/content servers that are down.
Hum, bummer. Is this a solution you use? It does sound interesting for a quick-fix once it is set up.. > Thomas Hjorth schrieb: > > I have this problem all the time, figuring that it just yet another > > annoying bug on valves server... or perhaps some throttling when trying > > to auth against their servers. > > > > I have a script that automatically restart the servers once in a while, > > and almost certain that a few servers will not come up again, coz the > > are stuck starting up waiting for something... and of course doesnt > > accept any connect to it and the console is frozen too. > > > > My solution will be to restart the server again and again and again, > > pounding the auth servers even more, until the server startups > > correctly. > > > > I noticed that all the servers I checked seems to be stuck when/after > > the main_admin module, so it _might_ be related to the loading om mani. > > Just a guess though. Right, I restart as well, however many of the servers are vanillainstalls with no mods loaded, and the behaviour is the same. Another "solution" can be to check for a heartbeat via rcon and restart it if it doesn't answer.. however this is really going around the problem. -- Thomas Bergheim - GPG ID: 0x8BA9AAC5 _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
