WON Master Servers Change

[CSN NewsBot]

Some people may have noticed the recent outages when trying to play Counter-Strike, have no fear. Eric Smith from VALVe has reported to the HLDS mailing lists about the change.

The IP addresses for the Half-Life Master and Authentication servers have been changed. These changes shouldn't affect servers or clients unless the file "valve\woncomm.lst" has been edited to use IP addresses (which you should never need to do).

Well you should never do, unless the DNS gets temporarily mapped wrong again.[break="click to see the new IPs"]The IP addresses for the servers have been changed to:



half-life.east.won.net

65.73.232.251



half-life.central.won.net

65.73.232.252



half-life.west.won.net

65.73.232.253



Your "valve\woncomm.lst" file *should* have these entries:

Auth

{

half-life.east.won.net:7002

half-life.west.won.net:7002

half-life.central.won.net:7002

}



Master

{

half-life.east.won.net:27010

half-life.west.won.net:27010

half-life.central.won.net:27010

}

[CheesyPeteza]

That BS. I haven't edited mine and I couldn't connect. I've edited it now for the new IP's and it works ok.

[Evil_Penguin]

Fun stuff, nothin' like switching base settings.

[Mayco]

"...have have no fear..." TWO have's?

[Exo]

but have no fear.

[orphy]

I never play 1.5 anymore, so meh.

[Serious Sam]

Couldn't you just delete your old list?

[rizzuh]

Evil_Penguin wrote..

Fun stuff, nothin' like switching base settings.

They shouldn't have to be switched, genius of Middle Earth.

[d1abl0[-_-]]

[Praulie]

i need help. i never changed anything in mine, but now i can't connect to any servers

[Kuros]

I want Eric Smith to report that they will release new information about Team Fortress 2.

[Evil_Penguin]

rizzuh wrote..

They shouldn't have to be switched, genius of Middle Earth.

Replying to the guy above me, sorry for the confusion.

[Faulkna]

Any delay is due to the dns being updated and that new setting being filtered down to your ISP. This can take different amounts of time for different ISPs, but it doesn't take long. If you have the default settings, your settings will automatically update shortly.

[AiRPoD]

Hrm. My .lst file is correct and I can ping these servers and receive their new IP's correctly. Still not connecting to WON though. DOH

[StealthMode]

Edited by [user="99481"] @ [time="1045148573"]

Why do they tell us not to modify anything and to have trust in them?

I tried joining a server this morning, and murphys law is kicking in. I have NEVER had a problem authenticating....till now. I say to poop with what Erik says NOT TO DO. DO IT. Cause it looks like its working for others. And trusting in Valve and not doing any modification (eg: setting the ips) isn't working. I for one am disregarding Mr. Smiths reccomendation to not modify the woncomm.lst file. Cause I want to play cs. I suggest just backing up a copy of woncomm.lst somewhere before modifying it that way you can overwrite the modified copy once Valve gets off their a$$es and fixes the dns redirect correctly....



Lastly, why was the community informed at the last minute of this critical change? What ever happened to advanced notice so we could prepare? Dropping it in our laps at the last minute is a sign (to me at least) that sh!t is disorganized over at Valve....



UPDATE: I tried the ip thing, it worked once. Then I tried it again to confirm, no go. Either like the gentleman above stated, WON is down. Or and this is what I personally think is the case...the new host doesn't have enough bandwidth for everyone to authenticate...Guess this is a good reason why I don't play cs exclusively. Someone give us a shout when the auth servers start working. I'll be in BlackHawkDown for now....