Hi Thomas, I ran into a similar situation, but on a much much smaller scale (a few running on the same host behind NAT). Basically the same thing, server would seem to "pause" after adding the master servers, but not initialise VAC. I'm pretty sure it's a mechanism on VALVe's end of things not playing nicely with NAT.
Basically all I did to help alleviate the issue was set ip forwarding rules for a massive port range (27015 to 28015) and made sure every servercfgfile contained a hostip, port and basically haven't had any issues since. Another thing to check is for any recent srcds updates that might have broken a config. Good luck with finding a solution :) _______________________________________________________ Shane Arnold - clontar...@iinet.net.au "For want of a nail, the horseshoe was lost. For want of a horseshoe, the horse was lost. For want of a horse, the messenger was lost. For want of a messenger, the message was not delivered. For want of an undelivered message the war was lost." Thomas Hjorth wrote: > Hi All > > We are running about 500 srcds and hlds servers behind a NATed firewall > which seems to be a problem for VAC, Content, Master or whatever servers > at valve. :-( > > Most of the times the server startup just fine, but more and more often, > probably due to more and more gameservers, why either fail to start up > just hanging in the console somewhere close to, but before, these lines: > > Adding master server 69.28.140.246:27011 > Adding master server 72.165.61.189:27011 > > or the server starts up as it should but without VAC activated with a > message like this: > > version : 1.0.0.34/7 3734 insecure (secure mode enabled, disconnected > from Steam3) > > Im not sure it there are other versions of the "no VAC" message. > Rebooting the server several times often fix it where the VAC servers > eventually response to the request... > > Im pretty sure it due to our setup where all the servers are originating > from just one IP, looking like some kind of attack on the valves server, > the request are being throttled or simply ignored/discarded. So does > anyone have a solution for the problem? Perhaps an email to the right > people at Valve to talk to about this problem? > > Further more, does anyone know of some info about what servers, and in > what order, the gameservers need to or will connect to in order to start > up correctly? > > Regards, Thomas @ DSRack > > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please > visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux > > > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
