Try moving you computer outside you firewall and do the query again. I had this issue and it was caused by the firewall not handling the UDP traffic flow.
What happens is "home" type appliance fire walls have session buffers only about 2.5k (depends on vendor) in size. This means they can hold around 208 sessions at one time. Though UDP is a stateless protocol firewalls attempt to give it state by tracking outbound UDP packets Dest IP,Dest Port,Source Port, and a time stamp. When a reply to an outbound packet arrives the firewall allows the packet to pass if it has a matching entry in the session buffer. When you transmit 19,000+ UDP packets to different computers to get status info the session buffer quickly fills and the oldest session gets dropped before the reply comes back. The in game browser never gets a response from the computer and then does not display the computer in the browser list. Based on the tests I did for CS, World, no other filters you would see 3000-4000 computers out of 19000+. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ooks Server Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2004 1:10 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Re[2]: [hlds] RE: ServerList Destroyed::::Please take time to read Point of some interest. At this time, Steam shows me that there are 3880 CS servers. I have no filters set. WTF? _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
