Yep, lots of discussions in the forums. But neither official "announcement" threads for downtime mentioned it.
Steam Downtime Announcements (last post 2013-10-08) http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=784745 TF2 Item System Downtime Announcements (last post 2012-08-15!) http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1563331 No posts by Valve at all. :-{ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: 1nsane <[email protected]> Date: Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 8:41 AM Subject: Re: [hlds] TF2 "lost connection to the item server" To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list < [email protected]> This was a valve issue yesterday. There were plenty of complaints on the steam forums like this: http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3224774 On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 11:38 AM, Weasels Lair <[email protected]>wrote: > Definitely seemed yesterday to be rather wide-spread. But one wierd thing > I noticed yesterday was how it was effecting some of my servers, but not > ALL of them: > [*] I have THREE TF2 server instances are on the same IP address (on > Linux). > [*] No changes to firewalls or really anything recently. > [*] Both game/host/server port and Steam port are specified at > command-line for each instance. Client port currently dynamic/automatic. > [*] TWO of those THREE server instances were perfectly fine. > [*] ONE instance (the most heavily used of course) was giving players the > "can't find an item server" stuff. > [*] All the on-line tools I have checked (http://steamstat.us/, > http://status.tf2lists.com/, etc.), show the items servers were up? I > checked that first, otherwise I wouldn't have even bothered to post to the > list. > [*] I noticed that same ONE server instance (that was NOT working), was no > longer accepting or using the tf_server_identity_account_id and > tf_server_identity_token values. When I did as status command on the > console it said ... > > "account : not logged in (No account specified)". > > [*] For the TWO server instances that WERE working - they showed that they > were successfully logged-in. > > That leads me to suspect that some of this may have had something to do > with the process of replacing the old TF2 server registration system with > the Steam (sv_setsteamaccount) registration system? Maybe some upgrade or > conversion process going-on at the back-end? I would hope that would not > have done that in a way that breaks the "item server" stuff? > > If not that, then I guess it's just another random/mysterious Item Server > "event" - "The Valentine's Day Item Server Massacre"? > > > On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 4:55 AM, Alexander Kolev <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Our servers are running on Windows and there is no problem with the >> firewall...i think something is bugged with the connection on the ports. >> For example, i am having two servers but the first one is running fine with >> vac/items but the 2nd which has different port is running without vac and >> items :( Thanks for the help in advance! :) >> >> >> 2014-02-15 14:15 GMT+02:00 Valentin G. <[email protected]>: >> >> Are you guys on Linux or Windows? Any special firewall configurations >>> you might need to check? >>> >>> I've left the steamport command line options in there when it recently >>> broke on Linux, maybe you can try that out. I haven't had any issues >>> in the recent days. >>> >>> >>> And Mtvnoob: What would this mailing list be for otherwise? If you >>> don't want hlds/scrds related discussion in your inbox then why are >>> you even subscribed to this list? Subscribe to hlds_announce if you >>> only want the update notifications. >>> >>> > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds > > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
