So can anyone have a look here too? 87.98.177.203:27300 > I received a reply from a VALVe employee. Our IP was banned because of a 6 > slots bball2 server running off that IP. Bball2 servers tend to get little > playtime per player as its intended as a quick game, not something you play > long. > > I have asked VALVe for advice on this, because there is a proper demand for > bball2 servers, and it would be a bit silly to buy an extra IP which safely > can get blacklisted. > > If you have any servers like we had its very likely you're blacklisted as > well. The VALVe employee explained that all the servers on the IP get > blacklisted, regardless of the port or game it runs. (In our case 1 bball2 > server managed to be responsible for blacklisting almost 30 servers). > > Saint K. > > P.s. The IP is unbanned now and the bball2 servers shut down. Our connection > count on TF2 is 3 times as high again and all the L4D servers are being used. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Brainstorm > Sent: Friday, May 01, 2009 8:50 PM > To: 'Half-Life dedicated Linux server mailing list' > Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] L4D servers de-listed or what? > > I think I'm having the same problem. I have a dedicated box with two IP > addresses (84.244.189.237 and .238). I am running a few TF2 servers (24 > slots public, 4 slots public and two 20 slot private for clan matches) as > well as a few L4D servers. All servers are pretty much vanilla, with > Sourcemod on the TF2 servers. Nothing special anyway. The L4D servers were > tied to one of my steamgroups. Server has been running for over a year now. > > After the update of the 21st everything was fine. One or two days later I > noticed that the main menu of L4D did not show the servers of the steamgroup > and that the search key I was using on them did not work either. Initially I > thought nothing of it, but then I also noticed that the public TF2 servers > had a sudden drop in players. Only regular players were present and no > randoms at all. I then found out that the server browser did not list any of > the TF2 servers. > > I thought I had some kind of configuration problem, even though little has > changed. So I checked the following: > * Updates. All servers are fully updated, also used verify_all. > * Firewall. Even with the firewall turned off, the problems did not go away. > * Configuration, especially mp_gamemode. I've tried removing all > configuration, no effect. L4D servers do not attract any lobby traffic. > * Mods. I removed Sourcemod/Metamod, no difference. > * Steam connection problem. All game servers can connect to the master > servers just fine, packet sniffer shows no odd things. Status command > returns normal output > * OS. The box is running Debian and had not been updated for three months. > Fully updated, reboot, no change. > > All servers were at that point running on the .237 IP. I switched one of the > L4D servers to .238 and it attracted traffic from the lobby system in less > than five minutes. I switched one of the TF2 servers to .238 and that one > suddenly showed up in the server browser. > > To ensure that it wasn't my client having problems, I wrote a bit of code to > query the master servers directly. Here are the results: > * Any server (TF2, L4D, no matter what configuration) running on .237 does > NOT show up in any query to the master servers. > * Any server running on .238 is returned by the master server just fine. > > I've pretty much excluded anything I can think of, I'm really starting to > think that the master server is blacklisting my IP. No idea why though, > there's nothing special about these servers. I have switched the L4D servers > to .238 and they have been running fine. The TF2 servers are still on .237 > and would be deserted if it wasn't for the regular players. The primary TF2 > server usually gets 100+ random players each day, this has dropped to 5. > I've monitored the master server for the past week to see if the situation > might resolve itself, but so far it hasn't. > > Anyone any ideas? I just noticed this thread on the forums which deals with > the same problem: > http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=849433 > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Saint K. > Sent: vrijdag 1 mei 2009 5:01 > To: Half-Life dedicated Linux server mailing list > Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] L4D servers de-listed or what? > > Hi, > > Thanks for checking. Unfortunately the servers still don't show up in the > community list and neither do they have any activity. > > Cheers, > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of AnAkIn . > Sent: Friday, May 01, 2009 3:29 PM > To: Half-Life dedicated Linux server mailing list > Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] L4D servers de-listed or what? > > The cvar now show up. It wasn't showing up on HLSW and game monitor before. > > 2009/5/1 Saint K. <[email protected]> > > >> Hi, >> >> I have ran a verify_all . Before and after I get this response on that >> cvar; >> >> 15:19:47 "mp_gamemode" = "coop" >> game notify replicated >> - Current game mode, acceptable values are coop, versus and >> survival. >> >> How did you find that the servers don't seem to provide a mp_gamemode ? >> (p.s. can you check it again to see how its showing now?) >> >> Cheers, >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] [mailto: >> [email protected]] On Behalf Of AnAkIn . >> Sent: Friday, May 01, 2009 3:11 PM >> To: Half-Life dedicated Linux server mailing list >> Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] L4D servers de-listed or what? >> >> All of your servers on 85.17.60.96 don't have the mp_gamemode cvar, so I >> guess there is something wrong here. Try a -verify_all. >> >> 2009/5/1 Maximilian L. <[email protected]> >> >> >>> Yup, same here. running a L4D server since about 2 1/2 weeks, always >>> updated, got "amazing" 16 players within that time playing on it! >>> And it doesn´t matter if it´s vanilla or filled with plugins. At lest i >>> have no difference regarding the players ammount then. >>> Search key never worked and still don´t for me at all due that time too. >>> I personaly thinking about to take down the server again, since it´s >>> just wasting my space. Sadly that is. >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> We have L4D forked servers running off 2 machines. >>>> >>>> Servers running off IP 85.17.239.149 work flawlessly, their full most >>>> >> of >> >>>> the time. >>>> >>>> Servers running off 85.17.60.96 get NO traffic whatsoever, are not >>>> visible in our steam group and won't be picked up when using >>>> sv_search_key >>>> >>>> At 85.17.60.96 are also some 9 TF2 servers, all operating just fine >>>> without a problem. >>>> >>>> The l4d configs on both machines are an exact match accept for server >>>> names (numbers). >>>> >>>> Any idea why the 16 forked servers on 85.17.60.96 are being kept off >>>> >> the >> >>>> master list? >>>> >>>> Cheers >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, >>>> >>> please visit: >>> >>>> http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux >>>> >>>> __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus >>>> >>> signature database 4048 (20090501) __________ >>> >>>> The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. >>>> >>>> http://www.eset.com >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> -- >>> Mailing List Conversations - [email protected] - Please don´t spam :) >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, >>> please visit: >>> http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux >>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, >> please visit: >> http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux >> >> No virus found in this incoming message. >> Checked by AVG - www.avg.com >> Version: 8.5.287 / Virus Database: 270.12.10/2088 - Release Date: 04/30/09 >> 17:53:00 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, >> please visit: >> http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux >> >> > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 8.5.287 / Virus Database: 270.12.10/2088 - Release Date: 04/30/09 > 17:53:00 > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux > > > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please > visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 8.5.287 / Virus Database: 270.12.13/2091 - Release Date: 05/01/09 > 17:52:00 > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please > visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux > > __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature > database 4049 (20090501) __________ > > The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. > > http://www.eset.com > > > > >
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