Yes, we had this problem last night and had to restart some of our 
servers. LoadItems returned failcode 7.

Phillip Saltzman wrote:
> Steam was down briefly for maintenance again last night. Did anyone 
> experience this problem again?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: hlds_linux-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com 
> [mailto:hlds_linux-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com] On Behalf Of Phillip 
> Saltzman
> Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 11:15 AM
> To: 'Half-Life dedicated Linux server mailing list'
> Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] Server's Don't Reconnect to Steam Again? :(
>
> When your servers are in this state, I'm assuming you're seeing lines like 
> this in the log:
> (SERVER) LoadItems on Account xxxxx returned FAILCODE of xxxxx.
>
> Steam went down on Monday afternoon at 4PM for normal maintenance. It sounds 
> like that was the last time a lot of you had the issue. Could you send me a 
> sample of the item failure messages from the logs around that time?
>
> Thanks,
> Phillip
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: hlds_linux-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com 
> [mailto:hlds_linux-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com] On Behalf Of ics
> Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 10:00 AM
> To: Half-Life dedicated Linux server mailing list
> Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] Server's Don't Reconnect to Steam Again? :(
>
> We have no such firewall or iptable rules or any out of the ordinary
> setup over network. The particular server that today lost connection is
> showing on master server list and server has vac on at secured mode when
> this happens. So we have connection to vac servers but only thing that
> doesn't work is the unclockables. Is there any way to manually renew the
> connection to item(?) servers so unlockables would get on on-the-fly or
> during next map change? It could prove some valuable information or
> error why it isnt working properly.
>
> -ics
>
> John McCaskey kirjoitti:
>   
>> The Steam code has logic to fall back to TCP instead of UDP for the Steam 
>> connection if the UDP connection has failed repeatedly.  Perhaps you have 
>> iptables rules or a firewall that is only allowing UDP outbound to port 
>> 27017 (the Steam authentication/item/vac servers)?  If that's the case then 
>> you should unblock TCP and the reliability of your connection will be 
>> improved.
>>
>> John
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: hlds_linux-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com 
>> [mailto:hlds_linux-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com] On Behalf Of ics
>> Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 7:06 AM
>> To: Half-Life dedicated Linux server mailing list
>> Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] Server's Don't Reconnect to Steam Again? :(
>>
>> Our TF2 servers do not connect back to Steam servers automatically
>> either. Just today we had to restart them due to unlockables not working
>> on the servers.
>>
>> -ics
>>
>> Zover Mirklo kirjoitti:
>>
>>     
>>> Same problem with my Linux server.. But auto-reconnection to steam
>>> servers worked some 2-3 updates ago and now again doesnt work..
>>>  Quoting FPSB | Goerge : they fixed it AGAIN, and then they broke it
>>> AGAIN
>>>  getting annoying. having to restart full servers is ridiculous.
>>>  On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 5:42 PM, bl4nk  wrote:
>>>  > Bump. Same thing happened to me and a few other server admins just
>>> a bit
>>>  > ago. Windows servers reconnect fine, but Linux servers still fail
>>> to
>>>  > reconnect.
>>>  >
>>>  > Shane Arnold wrote:
>>>  > > My latest install of srcds_linux is reconnecting to the Steam
>>> Master
>>>  > > servers fine?
>>>  > >
>>>  > > Debian 5.0r1 on a homebrew connection.
>>>  > >
>>>  > > _______________________________________________________
>>>  > >
>>>  > > 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."
>>>  > >
>>>  > >
>>>  > >
>>>  > > Andrew Stuart wrote:
>>>  > >
>>>  > >> We are suffering from this , and have been for a while :/
>>>  > >>
>>>  > >>
>>>  > >> -----Original Message-----
>>>  > >> From: hlds_linux-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com
>>>  > >> [mailto:hlds_linux-boun...@list.valvesoftware.com] On Behalf Of
>>> 1nsane
>>>  > >> Sent: 28 May 2009 20:10
>>>  > >> To: Half-Life dedicated Linux server mailing list
>>>  > >> Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] Server's Don't Reconnect to Steam
>>> Again? :(
>>>  > >>
>>>  > >> Don't reboot them next time. The more people complain the more
>>> likely it
>>>  > >> will get fixed :).
>>>  > >>
>>>  > >> On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 1:51 PM, JäKë T  wrote:
>>>  > >>
>>>  > >>
>>>  > >>
>>>  > >>> +1
>>>  > >>> Had 11 servers not connected last night, all full but two and
>>> I had to
>>>  > >>> reboot them at 2am when I got home.
>>>  > >>> Only half the people rejoined as it was so late and they just
>>> went to
>>>  > bed
>>>  > >>> after the server was rebooted.
>>>  > >>>
>>>  > >>> Sad panda.
>>>  > >>>
>>>  > >>>
>>>  > >>>
>>>  > >>>
>>>  > >>>
>>>  > >>>> Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 11:43:58 -0600
>>>  > >>>> From: brutalgoerge...@gmail.com
>>>  > >>>> To: hlds_linux@list.valvesoftware.com
>>>  > >>>> Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] Server's Don't Reconnect to Steam
>>> Again? :(
>>>  > >>>>
>>>  > >>>> its beyond silly i think that they need to be connected in
>>> the first
>>>  > >>>>
>>>  > >>>>
>>>  > >>> place
>>>  > >>>
>>>  > >>>
>>>  > >>>> =
>>>  > >>>>
>>>  > >>>> On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 5:49 AM, Donnie Newlove <
>>>  > >>>>
>>>  > >>>>
>>>  > >>> donnie.newl...@gmail.com>wrote:
>>>  > >>>
>>>  > >>>
>>>  > >>>>> Even Valves TF2 servers are unconnected ATM. This really
>>> needs a fix,
>>>  > >>>>> it's beyond silly how it does not reconnect.
>>>  > >>>>>
>>>  > >>>>> On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 5:36 AM, FPSB | Goerge
>>>  > >>>>>  wrote:
>>>  > >>>>>
>>>  > >>>>>
>>>  > >>>>>> Seems like they had fixed that for a little bit, but
>>> perhaps one of
>>>  > >>>>>>
>>>  > >>>>>>
>>>  > >>> these
>>>  > >>>
>>>  > >>>
>>>  > >>>>>> recent small updates broke it again.
>>>  > >>>>>>
>>>  > >>>>>> it went down today, and none of my servers reconnected
>>> until I
>>>  > >>>>>>
>>>  > >>>>>>
>>>  > >>> restarted
>>>  > >>>
>>>  > >>>
>>>  > >>>>>> them.
>>>  > >>>>>>
>>>  > >>>>>> Annoying, but I guess worse things could happen :)
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