Auth Down

[CSN NewsBot]

CS-Nation has learned (doesn't that sound snazzy), that Valve is currently working on their authorization (aka WON.net) servers. They're currently down, so that means no playing CS/HL until they're back up. Hopefully Valve is releasing an update to their anti-cheat as well to combat some recent wall hacks.



Update: They're back up. Your servers might need to be restarted. I recommend that all CS servers restart HLDS.



Update 2: WON East server is still down, but Erik from Valve says it'll be back up quite shortly.



Update 3: All servers are back up. Again, I recommend a restart of HLDS.

[SolidVelvet]

keep trying, as some people are connected to 2 of my 4 servers, i assume that some people can auth while some cant, or they were on before the won server went down.

[SinaC]

Yea, we noticed this right as we were trying to get into our private server to scrim. The joy.

[Cruiser]

Notice! Scheduled Maintenance for Multiplayer Servers (7/30 and 8/3)
Online play will be unavailable for all Sierra Entertainment titles (excluding Half-Life and Half-Life: Counter Strike) on Tuesday, July 30 between 6:00am-12:00pm EST due to regular maintenance. In addition, online play will be intermittently unavailable on Saturday, August 3, 2002 between 8:00am-6:00pm EST with the exception of Half-Life/Counter-Strike.
We appreciate your understanding as we improve our system to keep pace with the growing demand for online games. Please address any concerns to david.naney@vuinteractive.com.

Thats from the community.sierra.com forum header. Guess this isnt scheduled maintenence :}

[system of a down]

Man i tried to play some iceworld and I got that WON.net crap. So i went to the site and downloaded some garbage. Nothing worked and then i tried deleating these files and i deleatd the wrong thing and my cs wouldn't work. SURE am glad that everyone was made aware of the construction being done. I am just releaved that csnation had posted this news update otherwise i would have been lost.

THANKS CS Nation!!!!

[garry]

It's started to take me 3 tries to get in any server anyway.. with all the your cd key is in use things..

maybe its because i h4v3 war3z c5 5uc|<3rz

[Bluetooth]

I recommend that all CS servers restart HLDS.

Listen to him servers. Go forth and restart yourselves. Rizzuh knows best.

[garry]

yeah, after all if they are updating some remote service it makes sense to restart the server..

i reboot my computer every time i notice any changes on any websites

[Erik Johnson]

One of the servers is still having some trouble. The folks over at WON are working on it as fast as possible right now.

The machine at half-life.east.won.net is the one in question. Should be back up shortly.

Sorry for the downtime.

Erik

[garry]

dont worry sweetheart we can do without cs for 15 mins..

[rizzuh]

Thanks for the update, Erik.

[David Johnston]

Speaking of HLDS updates and stuff... anyone else had intermittent problems connecting to HL servers the past couple of weeks?

Two weeks ago (weekend), I couldn't play HL on any more than 1 PC on my network without the ping rocketting to 9999 and successive disconnection. By Tuesday it was fine. Last weekend, the same thing, but the ping simply increased to unplayable. Then on Monday it was fixed. Since Thursday however, playing on 2 PCs results in the ping on each fluctuating wildly from 50ms (ISDN! yay!) to around 800ms. There's not packetloss from what I can gather. Using just one PC gives the bog standard ping I'm used to - around 75ms.

I had some guy email me with the same problems 2 weeks ago, but when they were resolved (at the same time they were resolved for me) he told me and hasn't emailed me back since.

It's defeated me. I just wondered if anyone else had suffered the same problem - my neighbours, on the same ISP and same copper I don't think have any problems. I was perhaps thinking it was an HLDS server update/anti-cheat thing, since nothing has changed on all 3 of my machines (certainly nothing on the ISDN hub machine) that I can relate to this.

Yeah I know I should post this in a forum.

[xep]

David Johnston wrote..

Yeah I know I should post this in a forum.

You really shouldn't expect much help from here.

[Erik Johnson]

Ok, everything should be working now. Thank you for your patience.

Erik

[Gpig]

I was just playing for like 45 minutes. I'm east.

Edit: Pretend I said it before Erik.