Re: [hlcoders] Your CD-Key is currently in use error.

[Miguel Alemán]

Isn't it incredibly unlikely that a key-gen hits a valid key, not to even
mention hitting your exact key?

- Original Message -
From: John Frings [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 2:16 AM
Subject: Re: [hlcoders] Your CD-Key is currently in use error.


 No, really.. this has started to happen where I live to. We are three
people
 sharing an apartment and all of us has suddenly started to get this
error(?)
 since a couple of days ago. Thinking about that it has never happened in
 several years before and suddenly happens to all of us at the same time
 gives me the impression this is rather an error then people using key
 generators. Ofcourse we are all using our own keys and we have never given
 our keys out to anyone..

 /John


 - Original Message -
 From: Phantom [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 7:52 AM
 Subject: Re: [hlcoders] Your CD-Key is currently in use error.


  i belive that normaly this happens when someone who is using a keygen to
  play HL online hits the same key as yours and thus gets the same
details,
 so
  your legit cdkey gets blocked... i belive you can get a new cd key with
  proof you have the game
 
  - Original Message -
  From: Matthew Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 6:17 AM
  Subject: [hlcoders] Your CD-Key is currently in use error.
 
 
   This is pissing me off. I've been trying to test some new code on my
  server
   and I'm getting the Your CD Key is in use message whenever I try to
   connect. I haven't copied the CD, nor lent it out to anyone. What's
 going
   here and what can be done?
  
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[hlcoders] Your CD-Key is currently in use error.

[Matthew Lewis]

It looks like its a bug in the authentication system. This is what happened:

I am in the process of publishing the next release of my mod, so I'm doing a
lot of connecting/disconnecting from my test server. During one of these
connections, I left the game to enter the controls setup menu. If you've
done this while watching the server log, you'll see lots of overflow
messages from client  , and your connection dies a painful death if you
stay in setup too long which is what happened in this case. As it turned
out, I exited the game once I was done setting up my controls. The server
continued to run however. When I tried to reconnect to my server, I started
getting the CD key in use message. Eventually, as a wild guess, I stopped
the server and looked in the 'auth' folder and noticed a .dat file which had
a timestamp which coincided with time the problems started so I deleted it
and restarted the server. Voila! The problem went away.

Now I suppose that this might just be a coincidence in that I restarted the
server at the same time the duplicate key (if it really existed) went
offline. On the other hand, maybe there's something to restarting a server
and deleting errant auth .dat files.


At 12:17 AM 9/17/2002 -0500, you wrote:
This is pissing me off. I've been trying to test some new code on my server
and I'm getting the Your CD Key is in use message whenever I try to
connect. I haven't copied the CD, nor lent it out to anyone. What's going
here and what can be done?

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