Unable to find servers in Source mods

[Mad_Thrasher]

That's right, my client is unable to find servers to play Source mods, and it's pretty weird since I played PVKII as ususal and everything worked just fine, but today I can't because of that, any ideas or suggestions to fix this?

[Jefesito]

Having the exact same problem with Zombie Master right now..

[Dark360]

Same issue with Synergy. Since Tuesday. No Filters on.

[pizzahut]

I'm getting this:

Age of Chivalry : 1 server
D.I.P.R.I.P. Warm Up : 0 servers
Dystopia : 0 servers
Empires : 0 servers
Eternal Silence : 1 server
Insurgency : 0 servers
Pirates, Vikings and Knights II : 0 servers
Smashball : 0 servers
Synergy : 0 servers
Zombie Panic! Source : 0 servers

[Jefesito]

I found a fix, y'all.

Just delete everything in your steam folder EXCEPT steamapps and steam.exe. Then click on steam.exe so it can download everything again, I did it again now the servers show up correctly.

[Chowder7116]

Do know most of these mods are dead?

[pizzahut]

It's fixed now, I didn't have to delete anything.

[pizzahut]

PVK II and Dystopia seem to have problems, maybe due to the master server changes?

http://www.mail-archive.com/hlds_lin.../msg68030.html

PVK II server list: http://forums.pvkii.com/index.php?showtopic=13351

Dystopia server list: http://www.punyhumangames.com/forum/...282774#p282774

[DudeSonic1]

Obsidian Conflict is always empty

[pizzahut]

Quote from http://www.mail-archive.com/hlds_lin.../msg68045.html :
================================================== ==============
Fletcher Dunn
Mon, 16 Jul 2012 09:06:06 -0700

The new heartbeating method "should not" have broken anything. The old heartbeating method is still supported. (On a game-by-game basis. We will be requiring games to use the new method as games are able to be updated.) All
existing games should work....provided that they are talking the right addresses. We moved some master servers to new IPs. If the heartbeats are going to the old addresses (maybe they are hardcoded or set in some config file instead of being fetched dynamically?), that might be broken. If they are using the Steam libraries (even old ones), then the Steam libraries fetch the correct addresses to use.

That is not the only potential problem (we could have a bug GASP!), but it is the most likely.

If you want to debug this, please reply directly to me with a server IP, and I can help you figure out what we're hearing from it.
================================================== ==============
(end of quote)

So what I get from above is that the developers of the mods which aren't listed (Dystopia, No More Room in Hell, Obsidian Conflict, PVK II) should contact Fletcher Dunn if they want to check whether the master server IPs in their mods are correct or whether there is a problem on Valve's end.

If you subscribe to the hlds_linux mailing list you can find his e-mail address here. Or you can use the general contact form (sdk address) or for specific people (excluding FD) this one and ask your message to be forwarded to FD.

Good luck, hope this gets resolved soon.

[Sghirate]

Hiho,

since I still had the numbers in a mail; A side-by-side comparison. At-least the fix worked for most mods (even though I never got a response to my mail . . .)

Master: hl2master.steampowered.com:27011
Number of servers:

|Gamedir.......|.06.07.|.19.07.|
+--------------+-------+-------+
|esmod.........|.....1.|.....4.|
|empires.......|.....0.|.....8.|
|ageofchivalry.|.....1.|....42.|
|insurgency....|.....0.|....56.|
|synergy.......|.....0.|....78.|
|dystopia......|.....0.|.....0.|
|diprip........|.....0.|.....6.|
|dods..........|.....0.|.....0.|
|garrysmod.....|..1438.|..1220.|
|hl2mp.........|...477.|...454.|
|pvkii.........|.....0.|.....0.|
|smashball.....|.....0.|.....1.|
|zps...........|.....0.|...129.|
|ship..........|.....0.|....22.|
|tf............|.10021.|.10883.|
|cstrike.......|.16486.|.80765.|
|left4dead.....|...943.|..1042.|
|left4dead2....|..5103.|..5020.|

Numbers obtained using Steam Condenser
Script (pretty simple . . . ):

PHP Code:

<?php
error_reporting(0);
require_once dirname(__FILE__) . "/lib/steam-condenser.php";

$mods = array(
        "esmod",
        "empires",
        "ageofchivalry",
        "insurgency",
        "synergy",
        "dystopia",
        "diprip",
        "dods",
        "garrysmod",
        "hl2mp",
        "pvkii",
        "smashball",
        "zps",
        "ship",
        "tf",
        "cstrike",
        "left4dead",
        "left4dead2");

echo "Master: ".MasterServer::SOURCE_MASTER_SERVER."\r\n";
$masterServer = new MasterServer(MasterServer::SOURCE_MASTER_SERVER);
echo "SERVERS:\r\n";
foreach($mods as $gamedir)
{
        $serverArray = $masterServer->getServers(MasterServer::REGION_ALL, "\\gamedir\\$gamedir");
        echo " ".$gamedir.": ".count($serverArray)."\r\n";
}
?>

rgds Sghi'

[pizzahut]

I'm pretty sure the fix for the July 5th issue on Valve's side worked for all mods and they all showed up fine on the 10th of July.

Valve seems to think that this new issue since July 14th isn't their fault, and thus the developers of the affected mods need to contact Valve (as I described above) to find out if this is indeed a coding bug (using static master server IPs) or if there is something wrong on Valve's side (again).

I like your script, one issue though, the game directory for DoD:S is dod, not dods.

[pizzahut]

Here's a fix for server owners.

http://www.nomoreroominhell.com/foru...showtopic=8252

Originally Posted by Riley

Hello,

After doing some investigating with Chanz, I've found a solution to get your server back onto the NMRiH Server Browser! Spread the word!

Note: This is for server owners only, clients won't benefit from this (unless you're hosting a listen server, it might work?)

http://www.nomoreroominhell.com/foru...showtopic=8251

Originally Posted by Chanz

Follow those 4 easy steps as SERVER OWNER (every server owner has to do this, its no use if you try this on your client)!

1. Connect to your server via FTP or SSH.
2. Open your 'server.cfg' with a text editor (you'll find it in "nmrih/cfg/").
3. Paste the following at the END of it:
   

   //********************************************************************************************************** 
   // Master Server Settings
   //********************************************************************************************************** 
   sv_master_legacy_mode 0                         // Disable lagacy mode, since steam master servers won't support it anymore.
   heartbeat                               // Send heartbeat that this server is ready. Should be the last line of the config.
   //**********************************************************************************************************

4. Save the file and if necessary put it back on your server.
5. Restart your server OR type "exec server.cfg" (without "") into your server console (HLSW, rcon or sm_rcon works as well).

Your servers should be visible again!


Thanks to the HLDS Mailing list and Riley, we could resolve this issue.

Edit: Seems to work. http://img268.imageshack.us/img268/7...topiafixed.png

[pizzahut]

So after successfully running a Dystopia server with above method, I tried the same with PVK II - and the server wasn't listed. I then reverted to the old method (sv_master_legacy_mode 1 followed by a heartbeat), and it showed up.

Exited Steam, started Dys and PVK servers, PVK didn't show up again, although the mode was set to 1. Heartbeat didn't help. Set it to 0 again, followed by a heartbeat, server showed up.

From the mods that had problems I see this server population (using the Steam server browser):

Dystopia: 1 server
No More Room in Hell: 30 servers
Obsidian Conflict: 8 servers
PVK II: Created a server on a mate's machine, this is currently the only one listed.
SGTLS: Fixed a server on a mate's machine, this is currently the only one listed.

For PVK II I put this at the end of "server.cfg", probably you just need to set it to either 1 or 0 depending on the Steam client running at the same time or not. I leave this to someone else to figure out, anyway with these lines it works for me.

sv_master_legacy_mode 1
heartbeat
sv_master_legacy_mode 0
heartbeat

With Dystopia I only used a value of 0 (which worked fine).

[PAL-18]

I tried that and it doesnt work.

Oddly, all my windows servers are suffering from this while my linux servers are working fine. So it looks like this is a windows issue only.