Re: [hlds] Servers losing VAC, gettin beyond a joke...

2006-01-23 Thread Saint K.
this weekend too. Saint K. - Original Message - From: [GS]BeNt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: hlds@list.valvesoftware.com Sent: Monday, January 23, 2006 7:44 AM Subject: Re: [hlds] Servers losing VAC, gettin beyond a joke... I totally agree with Rayne.I've been running servers since 1.3.I now have cs 1.6

Re: [hlds] Servers losing VAC, gettin beyond a joke...

2006-01-22 Thread [GS]BeNt
I totally agree with Rayne.I've been running servers since 1.3.I now have cs 1.6 in acouple different flavors and a CS:S server.I used to run a CSDM server also.Seems here lately that VALVe is busy with other things and this happens here and there.I don't think it is because they are

RE: [hlds] Servers losing VAC, gettin beyond a joke...

2006-01-20 Thread Deadman Standing
Subject: RE: [hlds] Servers losing VAC, gettin beyond a joke... As you experience the problem any chance you could answer my questions to help me track this down? - Alfred ___ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives

Re: [hlds] Servers losing VAC, gettin beyond a joke...

2006-01-20 Thread Team Pfeffer
-- [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] We run multiple source dedicated servers on our windows boxes, and haven't experienced any VAC dropping since we made sure that every server instance on a box has a unique -sport set (none use the default port) even when the instances are tied to

RE: [hlds] Servers losing VAC, gettin beyond a joke...

2006-01-20 Thread Napier, Kevin
, January 19, 2006 9:07 PM To: hlds@list.valvesoftware.com Subject: RE: [hlds] Servers losing VAC, gettin beyond a joke... Exactly my point, nothing is in the logs and the server isn't crashed so their's no dump. The bottom line is it's impossible for us to help you fix what's broken. It takes giving

RE: [hlds] Servers losing VAC, gettin beyond a joke...

2006-01-19 Thread Alfred Reynolds
I cannot reproduce this problem (nor am I sure exactly what the problem is, log excerpts and minidumps would be useful). How do you know you are losing VAC? How do you know that a restart doesn't fix the problem (do you wait a little for login sequence to complete?) What are the configurations of

RE: [hlds] Servers losing VAC, gettin beyond a joke...

2006-01-19 Thread ray
job of it. Rayne -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alfred Reynolds Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 7:42 PM To: hlds@list.valvesoftware.com Subject: RE: [hlds] Servers losing VAC, gettin beyond a joke... I cannot reproduce this problem (nor

Re: [hlds] Servers losing VAC, gettin beyond a joke...

2006-01-19 Thread Kevin Ottalini
I run both an HLDM and HL2DM (win32) servers 24/7 and I have never seen this happen. - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: hlds@list.valvesoftware.com Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 5:15 PM Subject: RE: [hlds] Servers losing VAC, gettin beyond a joke... Come on, how can

RE: [hlds] Servers losing VAC, gettin beyond a joke...

2006-01-19 Thread Affordablegameservers.com
Subject: RE: [hlds] Servers losing VAC, gettin beyond a joke... As you experience the problem any chance you could answer my questions to help me track this down? - Alfred [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Come on, how can you not reproduce a server losing VAC? Run a few servers for a while, ya know

RE: [hlds] Servers losing VAC, gettin beyond a joke...

2006-01-19 Thread ray
:25 PM To: hlds@list.valvesoftware.com Subject: RE: [hlds] Servers losing VAC, gettin beyond a joke... As you experience the problem any chance you could answer my questions to help me track this down? - Alfred [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Come on, how can you not reproduce a server losing VAC? Run

Re: [hlds] Servers losing VAC, gettin beyond a joke...

2006-01-19 Thread Whisper
-- [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] Alfred We have no minidumps as it does not require a server to crash or restart for VAC connectivity to be lost. The server will be running as VAC enabled, then after some random number of hours pass, they will mysteriously come up as having no

RE: [hlds] Servers losing VAC, gettin beyond a joke...

2006-01-19 Thread Affordablegameservers.com
PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 9:07 PM To: hlds@list.valvesoftware.com Subject: RE: [hlds] Servers losing VAC, gettin beyond a joke... Exactly my point, nothing is in the logs and the server isn't crashed so their's no dump. The bottom line is it's impossible for us to help you fix

Re: [hlds] Servers losing VAC, gettin beyond a joke...

2006-01-19 Thread Tom French
:38 PM To: hlds@list.valvesoftware.com Subject: RE: [hlds] Servers losing VAC, gettin beyond a joke... I see this from time to time. All my boxes are win32 have 1 nic with multiple ips bound to it (one server per ip) Generally i see it upon mass restarting. Every few days i batch restart my

RE: [hlds] Servers losing VAC, gettin beyond a joke...

2006-01-19 Thread Paladin82
Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 5:42 PM To: hlds@list.valvesoftware.com Subject: RE: [hlds] Servers losing VAC, gettin beyond a joke... I cannot reproduce this problem (nor am I sure exactly what the problem is, log excerpts and minidumps would be useful). How do you know you are losing VAC? How do

Re: [hlds] Servers losing VAC, gettin beyond a joke...

2006-01-19 Thread Tom French
Alfred, I have experienced this problem on our win2k3 servers that run CSS. I will log into a few that have the problem, and see if I can trace route or someting to the VAC servers. Do you have any particular DNS for them, or should I just pick what the game is looking for.? Thanks for your

RE: [hlds] Servers losing VAC, gettin beyond a joke...

2006-01-19 Thread Alfred Reynolds
I don't believe a traceroute would provide any useful info (you actually connect too a pool of backend servers, the exact one depends on your location and system load). I will email you offlist with a couple specific debugging things you could do. - Alfred Tom French wrote: Alfred, I have

RE: [hlds] Servers losing VAC, gettin beyond a joke...

2006-01-19 Thread Affordablegameservers.com
I would appreciate that as well (the debugging things) dex -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Alfred Reynolds Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 10:17 PM To: hlds@list.valvesoftware.com Subject: RE: [hlds] Servers losing VAC, gettin beyond a joke

RE: [hlds] Servers losing VAC, gettin beyond a joke...

2006-01-19 Thread Mike Munoz
. Mike ParaDOX Munoz www.paradisesgarage.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Affordablegameservers.com Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2006 10:23 PM To: hlds@list.valvesoftware.com Subject: RE: [hlds] Servers losing VAC, gettin beyond a joke

RE: [hlds] Servers losing VAC, gettin beyond a joke...

2006-01-19 Thread Gary
I've noticed limelight is doing weird metrics to their network, so I just adjust my routing and the servers appear to operate just fine now. Before I had problems with servers not getting steam connected, vac2 init problems etc. :) Maybe you should consider getting a carrier that doesn't use

Re: [hlds] Servers losing VAC, gettin beyond a joke...

2006-01-16 Thread Drew Hostetler
Yes, I have to restart my servers 5-6 times before they finally initialize VAC properly. On top of that, it takes 10-15 seconds for it to say whether VAC is enabled or disabled, so people are trying to join the server but they get kicked when I have to try again. Oh, and then the other great bug

RE: [hlds] Servers losing VAC, gettin beyond a joke...

2006-01-16 Thread Napier, Kevin
Probably because either they're aware of the bugs and have yet to fix them (or maybe cant without a larger update in the works, or because they can not successfully and repeatedly reproduce them. Though I do recall a few comments month back relating to this topic I think from Alfred, so i

RE: [hlds] Servers losing VAC, gettin beyond a joke...

2006-01-16 Thread ray
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of TooL Sent: Monday, January 16, 2006 3:19 PM To: hlds@list.valvesoftware.com Subject: RE: [hlds] Servers losing VAC, gettin beyond a joke... What's the issue? VAC has been broken since the day it came out :) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: [hlds] Servers losing VAC, gettin beyond a joke...

2006-01-16 Thread Napier, Kevin
Amen. (and I dont even play the game anymore..lol) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 16, 2006 3:49 PM To: hlds@list.valvesoftware.com Subject: RE: [hlds] Servers losing VAC, gettin beyond a joke

Re: [hlds] Servers losing VAC, gettin beyond a joke...

2006-01-16 Thread Brandon
, January 16, 2006 3:49 PM To: hlds@list.valvesoftware.com Subject: RE: [hlds] Servers losing VAC, gettin beyond a joke... To say broke assumes that it actually worked at some point. For the love of God and all that this good in this world release the Anti-Cheat to somebody that might

Re: [hlds] Servers losing VAC, gettin beyond a joke...

2006-01-16 Thread sKel
with a different, i know its the same person by how they boast and brag about it. - Original Message - From: Stuart Stegall [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: hlds@list.valvesoftware.com Sent: Monday, January 16, 2006 6:59 PM Subject: RE: [hlds] Servers losing VAC, gettin beyond a joke... This is why many

RE: [hlds] Servers losing VAC, gettin beyond a joke...

2006-01-16 Thread Scott Tuttle
Had two servers drop after a reboot just today. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stuart Stegall Sent: Monday, January 16, 2006 7:59 PM To: hlds@list.valvesoftware.com Subject: RE: [hlds] Servers losing VAC, gettin beyond a joke