Yeah, I retried repeatedly for over 2 hours yesterday with the same results. It 
selected different login mirrors, and always tried TCP first.

On Jan 16, 2015, at 12:30 PM, ics <[email protected]> wrote:

> Not sure if this helps you but usually when it "hangs" when i try to log in, 
> i just ctrl+c aka kill it and start again. Works immediately.
> 
> -ics
> 
> Ammon Lauritzen kirjoitti:
>> I originally posted this question to the source sdk forum but got no 
>> response other than a suggestion to try here :)
>> 
>> Some time yesterday, on one of our VM’s, steamcmd appeared to stop 
>> authenticating. It worked flawlessly earlier in the week and no firewall or 
>> other changes have been made. Upon further investigation, I determined that 
>> it is trying to log in via TCP instead of UDP. These TCP login attempts take 
>> 2 minutes before failing, and they always fail.
>> 
>> After the host tries to log in to two different mirrors via TCP, it decides 
>> to try UDP and inevitably works immediately. This process takes 
>> approximately 5 minutes and does not report the successful login - instead 
>> reporting an error. But it syncs version numbers shortly after reporting a 
>> failure and if I attempt to issue other commands, everything seems to work 
>> correctly.
>> 
>> I cannot reproduce this anywhere else. All other locations I’ve attempted 
>> from just try UDP for their initial login and work from the start.
>> 
>> Is there any way to just tell steamcmd not to try TCP for logins? Or at the 
>> very least, tell it to return to the behavior I’m observing everywhere else 
>> by trying UDP first?
>> 
>> Ammon Lauritzen
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