His server was delisted by the new automated server score system, though. I doubt Valve takes much of their precious time to go and manually delist servers, unless for some reason they get a lot of complaints.
AnAkIn . wrote: > 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. 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