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, the thing you guys code in there. We run lots > of both > HLDS and SCRDS servers and all of them will lose VAC from time to > time. Both > public servers, private servers and servers we run just for the world > to > play on. All servers use a unique port as well as steam port. It's > intermittent and always has been. Running a little internal LAN > server won't > show you the effects of anything really. You guys need to run publicly > accessible servers and you'll clearly see this issue yourselves. I've > personally seen it happen on RHE3, Debian (Stable), Win2kServer, > Win2k3Server and Win2k3Ent.X64 server. There is no rhyme or reason to > it. It obviously is lack of communication between the game servers > and the VAC > servers. Whether that be from line saturation or just poor network > connectivity of the VAC servers is unclear but it DOES happen. Daily > to most > of us here. I just cannot believe you put ANY solid effort into > reproducing > our environment and fail to see one of those servers insecure. I just > checked our list and found two from looking about 2 hours ago. If you > have something I should look for in logs then by all means give us > the phrase to > search for. But don't assume we'll accept "we can't reproduce it" and > call > the case closed. I'll be HAPPY to help run this useless AC on our > servers > out of lack of options since Valve is too nuts about coding to allow > somebody that gives a damn to do a better 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 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 the machines with the problem? Do you have other > machines that do not exhibit the problem? > > - Alfred > > Saint K. wrote: >> Currently we have to reset our servers multiple times a day because >> they are losing VAC. >> Often a server needs 2 or 3 resets to get VAC back active. >> We have 2 choices... Reboot a filled server (Looking bad vs ur >> players if your constantly resetting servers), or leave server >> unsecured as result you attracks 10 cheaters an hour on a full >> server. >> >> We need VAC fixed asap as this is getting out of controle!! >> >> Saint K. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list >> archives, please visit: >> http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list > archives, please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
