Nice Tony, thnx.
I'd change only after a week or 2 or maybe a month, to allow the ppl that
aren't online that much (weekends only etc) to have it too. Comm's worked long
enough to get ppl to favorite the server, that extra couple weeks would not
change much. Must allow first to get all ppl to populate it in their steam
client.
Its not fit to negate DDOS attacks, it never was in anyway imo. At earliest a
day after ppl would be getting the new location, which defeats any DDOS counter
for the players one has.
But that is my opinion.
>________________________________
> From: Tony Paloma <to...@valvesoftware.com>
>To: 'Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list'
><hlds@list.valvesoftware.com>
>Sent: Tuesday, 25 February 2014, 22:28
>Subject: Re: [hlds] IP Changes & DDOS Attacks - Do Game Server Accounts
>Resolve These Issues Now?
>
>
>
>Yes, you can change IP, port, or both and user’s favorites will update within
>a day or the next time they refresh their favorites list thereafter. What I
>mean by that is, the Steam client only asks for updated IP:port information at
>most once every 24 hours. At the same time as that request, the Steam client
>will also look at all the favorites it doesn’t know the Steam ID for and check
>to see if it has a persistent account and then fill it in if so. So you may
>want to wait a few days before changing your IP or port to ensure people get
>the Steam update and get a chance to get your game server’s Steam ID in their
>favorites list.
>
>From:hlds-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com
>[mailto:hlds-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com] On Behalf Of Weasels Lair
>Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2014 1:19 PM
>To: Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list; Half-Life dedicated Linux
>server mailing list
>Subject: Re: [hlds] IP Changes & DDOS Attacks - Do Game Server Accounts
>Resolve These Issues Now?
>
>Related question to this ...
>In addition to tracking what IP ADDRESS the server moved to, I *assume* it
>will track the before/after PORT? In other words ADDRESS:PORT, not just
>ADDRESS?
>Maybe somebody from Valve could confirm?
>
>On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 1:16 PM, Mike Vail <supp...@boomgaming.net> wrote:
>I just got a Steam Client update this morning that included the following in
>the General update notes:
>
>“Add IP tracking to game server favorites. Favorites will automatically update
>to new server IP addresses if the game server is using a persistent account.”
>
>I’m assuming that this feature is no longer just a beta client feature now,
>which is wonderful news for anyone looking to change their IP addess(es).
>
>
>
>
>From:Mike Vail [mailto:supp...@boomgaming.net]
>Sent: Saturday, February 15, 2014 10:49 AM
>To: 'Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list'
>Subject: [hlds] IP Changes & DDOS Attacks - Do Game Server Accounts Resolve
>These Issues Now?
>
>So this week for the first time since I started running Valve servers almost
>10 years ago, I began getting ddos attacked on one of my servers. The
>datacenter null-routed the IP, which is typical in these cases. I don’t have
>advanced firewall protection right now other than Windows 2008 Firewall so I’m
>kinda stuck. I don’t even know the nature of the attack because the datacenter
>isn’t helpful at all. Wireshark hangs and crashes every 30 minutes so it too
>is useless in identifying the attack. I also learned another server-op who
>runs a similar server is having the same attacks so it’s likely the same guy
>trying to take us both down so he can start his own server like ours.
>
>So then I started thinking about these new game server accounts. My affected
>server is by no means stock. It runs a custom map, has instant respawn and
>100% crits, which disqualifies it from Quick-play. That’s fine but here’s my
>question. As I read the recent thread about the new Game server account
>feature, by adding my server to a game server account, I can change the IP and
>players with it saved in their favorites will receive the new server IP
>address because their favorites will update after the IP change. Is this
>correct? If so, I should be able to change the IP after registering it and
>people should find the server through their favorites like before even though
>the server won’t work with quick-play right?
>
>Lastly, with game server accounts becoming the norm, would it not make since
>for Valve to game servers’ IP addresses from everyone in the future so the
>ability to attack them would be greatly diminished? I realize that dedicated
>attackers will always find a way to do evil, but by hiding the IP addresses
>from players, it may go a long way to reducing the frequency of attacks by
>script kiddies.
>
>What do you guys think?
>
>Happy Saturday,
>Mike
>
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