If this http://teamfortress.com/post.php?id=2338 is the way it works then gn8 to new servers. It just won´t work that way!
> 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. 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 - 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