Hi Saint K.

That IP address has indeed been delisted from the Steam Master Servers. When an IP is delisted, it delists all servers on that IP regardless of what game they are running.

This IP was delisted because of this TF2 server:
85.17.60.96:26065 SpecialAttack.net :: ctf_bball2 #3 I see that you have two other servers running ctf_bball2 that are both in danger of the ban threshold themselves. All of your other servers are in good standing.

We'll repeal the ban, but please consider tweaking your ctf_bball2 servers to keep this from happening again.

Thanks,
Phillip Saltzman



-----Original Message-----
From: hlds_linux-bounces@list.valvesoftware.com [mailto:hlds_linux-bounces@list.valvesoftware.com] On Behalf Of Saint K.
Sent: Friday, May 01, 2009 5:14 AM
To: Half-Life dedicated Linux server mailing list
Subject: [hlds_linux] L4D servers de-listed or what?

Hi,

We have L4D forked servers running off 2 machines.

Servers running off IP 85.17.239.149 work flawlessly, their full most of the time.

Servers running off 85.17.60.96 get NO traffic whatsoever, are not visible in our steam group and won't be picked up when using sv_search_key

At 85.17.60.96 are also some 9 TF2 servers, all operating just fine without a problem.

The l4d configs on both machines are an exact match accept for server names (numbers).

Any idea why the 16 forked servers on 85.17.60.96 are being kept off the master list?

Cheers

and it means that you can see the servers now? right?

Does that mean that the bball servers will have to be removed

They would need a separate IP so that they don't influence the other servers... nevertheless their system is crap in this way. Judging mods the same way as "normal" servers... is... meh... o_O

Or you put 1 bball server with about 3 other "normal" servers. The normal servers will likely not get into the delisting zone and will therefore carry the bball server. However, this wouldnt really be a solution

If it worked that way they wouldn't have delisted servers 1, 1.5, 2, no critt 1 etc.

In this case everything got delisted, tf2, l4d, pub-priv servers.

For the purpose of scoring, we ignored all password-protected servers, and all servers that had fewer than 200 connections a day.

Can't you password them?

We could but i don't think that sorts anything. VALVe will have to come up with a solution first.

-----Original Message-----
From: Phillip Saltzman [mailto:phils@valvesoftware.com]
Sent: Monday, May 04, 2009 9:55 PM
To: Saint K.
Subject: RE: L4D servers de-listed or what?

Hi Saint K.
You are right, the bball servers are definitely a legitimate game mode and we don't want to discourage it. We're looking at ways to tweak our algorithm to keep these servers from showing up as bad. In the meantime, you can put those servers back up if you'd like. Now that we're aware of the problem we'll look out for it before we ban more servers.

Thanks,
Phillip Saltzman