Could not establish connection to Steam servers

[Uri Dead]

Are you kidding me!!!! He bailed without posting the solution?

Anyone else? I have the exact same problem.
"could not establish connection with steam servers"
Hence no VAC anti-cheat on my server.

[Baluchi]

Uri Dead Wrote:Are you kidding me!!!! He bailed without posting the solution?

Anyone else? I have the exact same problem.
"could not establish connection with steam servers"
Hence no VAC anti-cheat on my server.

If you are running "hlds.exe" and "srcds.exe" off the same ip try shutting down one and se if you get vac secured then.

[Uri Dead]

Baluchi Wrote:

Uri Dead Wrote:Are you kidding me!!!! He bailed without posting the solution?

Anyone else? I have the exact same problem.
"could not establish connection with steam servers"
Hence no VAC anti-cheat on my server.

If you are running "hlds.exe" and "srcds.exe" off the same ip try shutting down one and se if you get vac secured then.

Nope, srcds.exe and there are several halo servers running but even with them down, no joy. I have a ticket with Valve but no response yet. I'm not to enthused either.

Update:Still no response from Valve and after checking and triple checking the ports allowed to this server and not being able to re-create the problem on another box at all, we loaded up srcds.exe & commands without the firewall at all. Bingo! Eureka!

Seems the stateless firewall was blocking returning valve packets somehow. Installed a statefull firewall (the overhead is not noticeable), opened the required ports and Steam immediately secured the game server. VAC Secure rocks now.

[pistolpete]

yeah definately dont leave us hanging lol

[MaTtY]

LOL, gotta fucking love people who dont post the solution. pisses me right off when someone has the answer to a hard to find problem.

[jesper]

I had this problem. I solved it by allowing UDP on port 26901.
Very interesting since i couldnt find any documentation even mentioning that port. ^^
Not sure if thats a static port VAC uses or not, i have 2 servers on different ip's, and both are using that port.

Try using netstat to find out what port its listening on, if 26901 doesnt do it for you.

[exvel]

Sorry that didn't answere about how i fixed this problem. But i don't think it will help anyone else. It was provider's problem. It blocked vac port on his firewall.
p.s. sry 4 bad eng

[daffy222]

please help meeeeeeeeeeee

could not establish connection on steam servers...

i want to create a 1 server for nonsteam users and steam users, but if i connect on this server like nonsteam client everything is ok , but if i connect on the server like steam client the server dissconnect me


Error verifying STEAM UserID Ticket(server was
unable to contact the authentication server

[Drocona]

We do NOT support illegal servers!