[ReyesHatrinak]

I've been administering a dedicated Linux HalfLife server for many years now (Plages Rat Race) and something odd has happened recently. My dedicated server no longer shows up in the master list of games, but you can connect to it if you have the IP in your favorites. This is a dedicated server in a data center and I do not think that I am having a port forwarding issue. I've been using this host for 7+ years. I'm noticing that I can't ping the master servers that I know of and I also do not see the " Masterserver added xx.xxx.xxx.xx" feedback in the startup any longer. $ ping hl1master.steampowered.com PING hl1master.steampowered.com (208.64.200.117) 56(84) bytes of data.

--- hl1master.steampowered.com ping statistics --- 7 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 6000ms

valve@46:~$ ping 208.64.200.118 PING 208.64.200.118 (208.64.200.11 56(84) bytes of data.

--- 208.64.200.118 ping statistics --- 4 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 2999ms

Are there any other linux server admins out there experiencing the same problem? I've posted on the steam forum, but it is pretty quiet over there.

[deprale]

If this comforts you:

Pinging hl1master.steampowered.com [208.64.200.117] with 32 bytes of data: Request timed out. Request timed out. Request timed out. Request timed out. Ping statistics for 208.64.200.117: Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss),

seems like it's down.