There are still many servers using fake clients. Strange your server was delisted and not those.
2009/5/2 Ronny Schedel <[email protected]> > You need alot of connecting/disconnecting players to get a bad rank. Even > if > the map runs only for 15 minutes, it should not matter. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Brainstorm" <[email protected]> > To: "'Half-Life dedicated Linux server mailing list'" > <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, May 02, 2009 9:29 PM > Subject: [hlds_linux] FW: L4D servers de-listed or what? > > > I have received the same e-mail as well. They helped me out as well. Same > story for me, the problem that caused the IP to be delisted was a bball2 > server as well. In general, players tend to play for 15-45 minutes. Matches > simply do not last longer than that. Also, another server which was > receiving very little traffic (instagib server, used to be much more > popular) was close to being delisted as well. Both servers have been shut > down. > > It appears that when a single server is delisted (server = IP + port > combo), > the IP gets blacklisted. This affects any other server running on the same > IP since they share the same master server (might be possible that HL1 > games > are unaffected?). > > Traffic on the my other servers is back to normal again. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ronny > Schedel > Sent: zaterdag 2 mei 2009 8:51 > To: Half-Life dedicated Linux server mailing list > Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] L4D servers de-listed or what? > > Could you please explain what bball2 is? Is it a MOD for TF2? Does > blacklisting affects all games now not just TF2? > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Saint K." <[email protected]> > To: "Half-Life dedicated Linux server mailing list" > <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, May 02, 2009 7:49 PM > Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] L4D servers de-listed or what? > > > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
