Are they having issues with some DoS attack on those servers that happen to start with 208.? On Jan 16, 2015 1:26 PM, "Ross Bemrose" <rbemr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> While I haven't seen any comments in public about it, one of Valve's > engineers is working on the problem. We've had some email exchanges back > and forth which involved me sending steamcmd connection logs, steamcmd > command-line switches, the steamcmd runscript I use, plus ping and > traceroute from my NFOServers Chicago VPS to one of Valve's Steam servers. > > There's a new version of steamcmd out now. The timeout hasn't changed, > but now it will try 4 different servers before it gives up. > > For me, my current list has two 208 servers before the first 72 server, so > it waits for the first two to time out before actually connecting to the > third and checking for updates. > > > > On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 2:53 PM, Robert Paulson <thepauls...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Why is the timeout on the connection so long? >> >> If the timeout was shorter and it didn't keep trying to connect to the >> first IP in config.vdf every time there would actually be a point to having >> multiple CM server entries. >> >> Can someone at Valve comment? >> >> On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 8:06 AM, N-Gon <ngongamedes...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Ross >>> When I follow your steams and run SteamCMD again it redownloaded that >>> config.vdf file >>> It updated TF2 just fine though. >>> I reedited that vdf file and saved a copy of the modified version. >>> Thanks! >>> >>> On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 10:18 AM, Ross Bemrose <rbemr...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> We were just discussing this over on hlds_linux. >>>> >>>> "Someone posted this workaround on csgo_servers yesterday: >>>> >>>> Hi, I have a temporary workaround for Steamcmd failing to >>>> connect/login. My server is in New Jersey, and has been unable to login to >>>> Steam for many days now. The following worked for me: >>>> >>>> 1. In your steamcmd directory, make a backup of config/config.vdf >>>> 2. Open config/config.vdf and find the IP addresses listed under >>>> InstallConfigStore -> Software -> Valve -> Steam -> CM >>>> 3. Remove the IP addresses starting with 208.* (note that the addresses >>>> are delimited by semicolons) >>>> 4. Re-run steamcmd and login >>>> >>>> Again, this is only temporary, and you should restore the backed-up >>>> copy when things are back to normal." >>>> >>>> On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 10:12 AM, Stephen Swires <st...@swires.me> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi, >>>>> >>>>> I'm wondering if anyone else is affected by Steamcmd refusing to >>>>> login? Every time I try and login anonymously I get: >>>>> >>>>> Connecting anonymously to Steam Public...Login Failure: No Connection >>>>> FAILED with result code 3 >>>>> >>>>> I have tried two completely different servers in different data >>>>> centres (one in New York and the other in North Virginia). iptables have >>>>> been setup to allow the connections. It does appear from >>>>> http://steamstat.us/ that a good chunk of Steam servers are >>>>> unavailable in North America right now so could that explain this issue? >>>>> >>>>> Thanks. >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, >>>>> please visit: >>>>> https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Ross Bemrose >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, >>>> please visit: >>>> https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds >>>> >>>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, >>> please visit: >>> https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, >> please visit: >> https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds >> >> > > > -- > Ross Bemrose > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds > >
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