This was due to master servers going away - even if it quit after X attempts, it would start back up and resume timing out against the same dead server. Now that it uses the DNS round robin though, I'll have it restart to get a new IP after X failures (next time i bother updating it, that is)
- Neph On 04/15/2010 09:43 AM, Kaspars wrote: > btw you should consider to sys.exit(-1) if attempt>20 + some error message. > I had this script hanging in the never-ending while from the April 6 and > noticed it just today... > > 2010/4/15 1nsane<[email protected]> > > >> Keep up the good work >> >> Thanks.. >> >> On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 6:41 PM, Nephyrin Zey<[email protected] >> >>> wrote: >>> >> >>> To anyone using nemrun or the included srcupdatecheck script, either >>> redownload v1.2 of srcupdatecheck from nephyrin.net/tools/nemrun, or >>> change the lines >>> >>>> host = blah >>>> port = blah >>>> >>> near the top of the script to: >>> >>>> host = "hl2master.steampowered.com" >>>> port = 27011 >>>> >>> Previously hl2master only pointed to specific IPs, which happened to be >>> very slow. Now that it round robins through many IPs, there's no reason >>> to pick a specific server. >>> >>> - Neph >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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
