It happens every single week sometimes multiple times. Guess they don't want to keep a public log of this anymore. What other company as big as valve has their services go down this often? :P
On Sat, Feb 15, 2014 at 11:51 AM, Weasels Lair <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
