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[ninjaMooCow]

Thanks user "mukky" for helping me troubleshoot today.

 

He has a tragic server, and I think many of them may be having this problem.

Starting a lobby is sticking on "validating."  The reason for this is that his server was not providing tf2c a list of maps through rcon.   I logged in to the server console, and this is what I saw when I did the "maps *" command myself.

 

] rcon maps *
autokick is disabled for TF2C | ninjaMooCow
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PENDING:   (fs) arena_badlands
PENDING:   (fs) arena_byre
PENDING:   (fs) arena_granary
PENDING:   (fs) arena_lumberyard
PENDING:   (fs) arena_nucleus
PENDING:   (fs) arena_offblast_final
[......]

 

There is an article that talks about this "bug" here: http://forums.srcds.com/viewtopic/5244
It suggests  making a mapcycle.txt with every map listed in it twice.  Apparently, that works.

I also suggested that the server owner open a ticket to tragic with the above information, as it appears as if the server configuration is not working correctly.

 

 

 

[Fury-bringer]

Opened a ticket with tragic after I tried the suggested fix with the mapcycle.txt to no avail

 

 

 

Chris,

We've looked into this and it appears to be standard behavior across Source games. Even if you load up your client and type `maps *` in console, it shows as pending. I've also asked a few people to ensure I'm providing valid information and it's correct.

We did receive another ticket regarding a similar issue with TF2Center's validation process, so far it appears to be an issue on their end. If you attempt to create a lobby at TF2Stadium, the issue doesn't exist.

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Roilan Salinas
[email protected]
TragicServers Founder

 

Tragic says it's on tf2center's end with the validation issue for tragicservers to host a lobby.

Don't know if this will help point in the right direction.

[ninjaMooCow]

I can confirm that I made an assumption. that the "PENDING" thing was the problem.

My servers are working just fine, and respond with PENDING".

 

I am in communication with Roilan. We'll get this worked out.

 

serveme uses tragic. so this problem may be larger than expected.

[zeta]

I am getting the same problem. Tried having 2 copies of maps in mapcycle.txt, but did not work.

[Arie]

Manual RCON works, TF2Stadium works, TF2Center doesn't work. I think we can rule out something being wrong with the gameservers.

 

TF2Center is closed source, so I have no idea what you're doing when it says "Validating". I do know that about the only thing that changed when this broke was the new anti-DDoS measures, so I suggest temporarily disabling those to see if that fixes the problem.

[MasterNoob]

Fixed!

 

Arie managed to figure out we were using the wrong IP frame size (MTU) ;-)