Server Downtime/Updates Thread

by **GTFO. G** » 01 Jul 2008, 23:00

This thread will be updated when servers go down, due to updates. Just so people know there isn't an issue we dont know about.

Downtime on 81.19.219.83 03/07/2008 15:33

I suspect a new exploit for DODS, it eats all the servers RAM until it's unresponsive, awaiting reboot from killercreation. (They cant access the box either)

by **GTFO. G** » 03 Jul 2008, 15:31

Updated.

by **GTFO. G** » 05 Jul 2008, 03:11

Updated the server plugins... Since the last dods and tf2 updates, servers have been crashing.

by **GTFO. G** » 05 Jul 2008, 11:24

Hopefully the continual crashing will have stopped on TF2 servers, updated plugins again.. gg Valve breaking plugins...

by **GTFO. Clymout** » 05 Jul 2008, 17:17

Hi Guys,

I posted a thread in general regarding HLstatX updates. Is this server issue contributing
to event history updates? Please read. Basically my events have not updated since 4th July.

Last played on Server #7.

Cheers,

Chris.

by **GTFO. G** » 05 Jul 2008, 18:12

Looking into it...

by **GTFO. G** » 06 Jul 2008, 11:35

All servers on .83 are dead... Server unresponsive

by **NapZ** » 06 Jul 2008, 11:46

Do you know when servers will be operational ?

by **GTFO. G** » 06 Jul 2008, 12:14

Hopefully soon, for now 4,5,6 and 7 are up.

by **GTFO. G** » 09 Jul 2008, 00:25

Updated.

The required update for Team Fortress 2 has been released. Please run
hldsupdatetool to receive it. The specific changes include:

- Fixed rcon crash caused by too many incorrect password attempts
- Fixed clients experiencing connection problems during round restarts
- Fixed flares not always being removed on impact
- Fixed 32 player servers not working correctly with SourceTV enabled
- Fixed dropped flags sometimes falling through the world
- Fixed number key menu input sending 2 key events
- Fixed PING field being clipped in the scoreboard at 800x600 resolution
- Fixed broken Medigun taunt
- Changed mat_showmiplevels to only be allowed when cheats are on

Jason

by **GTFO. G** » 16 Jul 2008, 11:07

Had to reboot the boxes for updates, and we've moved to a different server for running the hlstats database. Thanks snuggles

by **GTFO. al** » 22 Oct 2008, 03:48

Seems valve has pushed out an update to TF2. Was doing some late night checking and noticed they were all empty. Took a nosey and console was saying they were out of date so all the TF2 servers have been updated. A long time since I did an update, even though it's one command in command prompt, so if anything is screwed up I apologise in advance. In any event taking them down to be updated will clear out a lot of the RAM on the servers and hopefully they'll all play a little bit smoother too.

Looking at what it has updated...seems to be mainly some alterations to dustbowl, granary and badwater maps but nothing too major overall.

by **Echelon** » 22 Oct 2008, 17:39

al, is it possible you can put autokick on the hl2dm servers? Everyday i kick ppl that has 0 kills and up to maybe 900 deaths (!)...

by **GTFO. G** » 16 Dec 2008, 12:08

All servers down/rebooting for BIOS updates - apparently there's a fix for some kind of network controller issue where the connection would be dropped.

by **Selkino** » 06 Jul 2009, 23:51

don't really know where should I post this but I'm urious what is happening with #9 Badwater, it's empty all the time. somtimes 1 or 2 players in it and that's it. why ?

by **GTFO. NachoDuck** » 07 Jul 2009, 18:57

Well, the only people who will fill it are regs and considering the fake clients are no longer active there then it's hard to fill with only 2-3 people on there. I've helped fill it in the past but I haven't had the time really over the last few days.

by **Selkino** » 07 Jul 2009, 21:58

that would be nice

by **Ste** » 08 Jul 2009, 00:00

Selkino wrote:
don't really know where should I post this but I'm urious what is happening with #9 Badwater, it's empty all the time. somtimes 1 or 2 players in it and that's it. why ?

Me 2, What has happened it was always full a few months ago and now it always empty? where has everyone gone?

Not just #9 Badwater, but also #8,#11 are always empty and #10 is half full most of the time. It like all the regs have disappeared over night.

Today I stayed on #9 Badwater (at 8pm) for half hour on my own just to see if anyone would join me, but only 3 signed on and then left straight away.

Don't know what has happened but I hope you are working on getting them back full, because its a shame to have servers empty.

Youtube · by **DataStorm** » 08 Jul 2009, 03:35

It seems they've been delisted... 8 and up are not showing in my server list (internet tab).

The join and disconnects are costing more points on it than there are build up on it, (@ join -15, ever minute some stays its upped +1, after 45 a max of 30 points is reached.)

couses for such fast disconnects can be:
- fake players, some joins and finds nobody on it, and leaves immediatly (-15 points)
- lower number of players than expected, and leaving for a more filled server.

In both cases, ppl don't have the patience to wait till some more have joined. Can't blame 'm, cos if on a low player count server I'll leave soon as well... unless some occasionally 1v1 occurs... but a big map and low player count won't work. (especially badwater/3rd part goldrush.... the walk is just too long). when 1v2 it is verry aggrevating for the lone player... he has practically not much chance. If more, it depends of the composition of the teams of it keeps 'm interested.... if 1 side is rolling over the other, it will go fast empty again.

So GTFO servers become known for it, and then ppl just jump in to check if ppl are out there, and disconnect again if not. Wouldn't be surprised if the serverlogs showed a lot of connect/disconnects up to the delisting.... and then only regs did connect and disconnected.

Solutions, the only way is to keep ppl at least 16 minutes on them, so the points of the server go up, and got listed again. That may be hard, so ppl should mass join a server, have couple of rounds and let it fill up, then go to next server with 4 or 5 and let it fill up as well...
As well have some advertising to add those servers to their favorites would be handy too maybe.

About the "fake" players... well. read some from GTFO on the forum that it filled the servers faster up... Only the logs will tell what exactly happened that the points dropped. (Connect, ammound of time connected, disconnect). All I personally see is a server with 8-14 fake players, I join, there's nobody on, I leave immediatly, and start looking for the next server. If I wanted to join a (almost) empty server, i would have chosen the empty one. At that time I'm looking for a half-filled server with 10 to 15 ppl.... cos I find it more fun in such numbers.

by **Ste** » 08 Jul 2009, 04:48

DataStorm wrote:
It seems they've been delisted... 8 and up are not showing in my server list (internet tab).

Just had a look myself and your correct. I have them bookmarked in favorites or use the GameMenu.res for my reserved slot. So I don't use the internet tab in the servers list. I think this delisted system blows and valve needs to get rid of it.

Not saying I know anything about how the servers work or anything, not like you guys who run them. But it's clear that the .81 servers are doing badly so can't you move some of them to the .82 and .83. And then move some of the full popular servers like 2fort\goldrush to the .81? Will this get them out of the delisted zone?

Again I might be talking (typing) shit so forgive me. Sorry. :wink:

DataStorm wrote:
As well have some advertising to add those servers to their favorites would be handy too maybe.

I agree, some add us to your favorites, when playing the game might help, like some other TF2 servers do. Or putting the list of servers with ip addresses on your gtfo steam page, then doing monthly announcements that you have 11 TF2 servers come and play etc.. You have nearly 20,000 members tell them to come and play.

by **Sepp** » 08 Jul 2009, 05:58

Ste wrote:Not saying I know anything about how the servers work or anything, not like you guys who run them. But it's clear that the .81 servers are doing badly so can't you move some of them to the .82 and .83. And then move some of the full popular servers like 2fort\goldrush to the .81? Will this get them out of the delisted zone?

DonÂ´t think itÂ´ll work. In the end it could get even worse by messing around with the well populated servers.
Unfortunately thereÂ´s not that much information about the delisting process. According to former news it should last for one month which - in my opinion - should be over by now. So itÂ´s hard to say if they will come back automatically or not.

One thing that may work could be to shut down servers #11 and #12 (maybe #08 too) temporarily and try to get the score up with those servers who still have some population left (#09 and #10). Disabling the fake plugin completely on that box could also be helpful for now.

Youtube · by **DataStorm** » 08 Jul 2009, 14:05

Ste wrote:Just had a look myself and your correct. I have them bookmarked in favorites or use the GameMenu.res for my reserved slot. So I don't use the internet tab in the servers list. I think this delisted system blows and valve needs to get rid of it.

Valve has build it in for some reasons: http://www.teamfortress.com/post.php?id=2338

Valve wrote:The scoring system had to penalize lying without penalizing custom game rules,

So the "bad" experiance need to be worked on.

And btw, #04 was about week ago also a while delisted.

by **GTFO. G** » 08 Jul 2009, 15:06

To clear up a few things.

.81 is delisted - no other IP's are.

I've modified the plugin to disable fakeclients for the quieter hours of the early mornings.

Popular servers cannot move to a delisted IP, as well, it's delisted.

Delisting is for 1 month, we should be back in action soon. #10 is still popular because it was book marked by many so can still be seen in favourites.

While I fully understand and agree with Valve's want to remove bad servers, they should be doing it by IP and PORT not just a blanked delist on a whole server (this affects all servers including different games). We had some very popular servers on .81, and one unpopular server took down the lot.

The join and disconnects are costing more points on it than there are build up on it, (@ join -15, ever minute some stays its upped +1, after 45 a max of 30 points is reached.)

Where is this formula from?

by **GTFO. NachoDuck** » 08 Jul 2009, 15:11

GTFO. G wrote:Where is this formula from?

The original blog post, http://teamfortress.com/post.php?id=2338

Youtube · by **DataStorm** » 15 Jul 2009, 13:29

all servers restart exactly at the same time.....5:30 AM

maybe an idea to do it staged, so if 1 server goes down, the others are still available (when that one goes down, you can go back)

by **GTFO. CrooZin** » 15 Jul 2009, 15:13

Someone needs a life if they are still up playing at 5:30am, or even got up early to play then.

Youtube · by **DataStorm** » 15 Jul 2009, 15:17

well, not 1 someone cos there were like 12 players on the server when it happened...

by **Chickenfoot** » 17 Sep 2009, 19:34

DoDS #5 Palermo is down all day

anyone knows what's going on?
I can go to another server, but I only like GTFO.

Besides that, keep up the good work! GTFO rocks

by **GTFO. ObscuredByCows** » 17 Sep 2009, 20:33

Chickenfoot wrote:DoDS #5 Palermo is down all day anyone knows what's going on?
I can go to another server, but I only like GTFO.

Besides that, keep up the good work! GTFO rocks

The Palermo server is back up and running now Chickenfoot. Welcome to the forum btw, you obviously have good taste in music as well as servers

by **Chickenfoot** » 17 Sep 2009, 21:39

GTFO. ObscuredByCows wrote:
Chickenfoot wrote:DoDS #5 Palermo is down all day anyone knows what's going on?
I can go to another server, but I only like GTFO.

Besides that, keep up the good work! GTFO rocks

The Palermo server is back up and running now Chickenfoot. Welcome to the forum btw, you obviously have good taste in music as well as servers

Thank you, looks like you got some good taste of music as well

by **NapZ** » 14 Nov 2010, 12:43

When are you gonna fix that SHITTY sudden death crap bug on TF2 GTFO #1 ???

by **Getsuga Tensho** » 18 Nov 2010, 21:43

NapZ wrote:When are you gonna fix that SHITTY sudden death crap bug on TF2 GTFO #1 ???

I wouldn't call it that, I quite like sudden death the way it's turned out on Rotation #1. Seems to be popular with players on there as well.

by **sneaky bastard** » 19 Nov 2010, 11:32

The "turn everyone into one class but leave them their original class weapon" sudden death bug ? I wouldn't call it popular, as most people are bitching about it every time it happens

by **santaclaus** » 19 Nov 2010, 20:20

sorry it 's not popular .

by **GTFO. Luckyg** » 18 Dec 2010, 10:46

We are aware of the current tf2 servers downtime. it seems they are refusing to update for us

UPDATE 10:20: Servers are back up, however their configs appear to have been reset so the servers names don't appear in the server browser, instead they are just labeled as "Team Fortress 2" e.t.c. to get around this you need to redownload the gtfo gui (which valve broke again) and then use that for the time being.

There is also a possibility that reserve slots are broken again

UPDATE 2 11:03: A server fix is being applied to all servers shortly to fix the reserve slots/plugins being broken so all servers will go down.

UPDATE 3 11:19: Servers have been updated and are all working now

by **GTFO. Luckyg** » 01 May 2011, 18:34

Guys both DODS and TF2 servers have been experiencing lag issues over the past few weeks, we are well aware of it and it appears to be connected to under optimized recent TF2 updates which have caused instability to the dedicated servers, therefore it will affect all servers on a dedicated machine (hence the DODS lag as we run a variety of games on each dedicated server)

We ask that if you are on a server that begins to lag that you drop into the GTFOGaming chatroom by clicking here and reporting it to one of the admins in chat who can then forward the message onto server admins and they will restart the server.

by **GTFO. Luckyg** » 03 May 2011, 22:32

Guys you may have noticed you was unable to connect to the DODS servers since about 9.30pm tonight, this was due to a new plugin being pushed onto the servers but we had not tested it correctly and was causing people to be kicked instantly :oops:

We have now fixed it for the time being and you should all be able to join again.

Sorry for any inconvenience

by **GTFO. Luckyg** » 18 May 2011, 22:44

TF2 Servers are in the process of being de-cluttered and plugins updated, you will notice less lag and crashes from now on across all servers. And some new features thanks to updated plugins.

Youtube · by **DataStorm** » 19 May 2011, 11:44

Can that block plugin be removed that was installed to prevent the multiple sentries/dispenser bug?

Handling of my destroy/build new script gets hampered by it, and the bug itself hasn't appeared anymore for a long time.

by **GTFO. Luckyg** » 19 May 2011, 23:06

DataStorm wrote:Can that block plugin be removed that was installed to prevent the multiple sentries/dispenser bug?

Handling of my destroy/build new script gets hampered by it, and the bug itself hasn't appeared anymore for a long time.

just looking at the plugin list, we don't appear to have a plugin that blocks it. However i may just be missing it

Anyways in other news, GameME stats are currently down due to updating the plugins which has bodged it up

So there will be no stat tracking until probably tomorrow sometime. Sorry :oops: