Master Server Move (4-13-10)

[Mooga]

Zoid Kirsch Wrote:On Wednesday April 14th we will be moving the HL2Master servers to a new set of IP addresses. One of the major new features is the new Masters should return dedicated servers ordered by their geographical distance from the player requesting the server list, making for lower latency and better connections.

Dedicated server operators will generally have to restart their dedicated servers after this move to ensure they will correctly pick up the new addresses of the these Masters. The server browser in the Steam client and in games such as Team Fortress 2 will automatically move to the new Masters.

Server operators that manually set their master servers (we recommend against this practice however) please use "hl2master.steampowered.com" to refer to them instead of the IPs directly. This name returns all Master addresses.

We will update once the move is complete.

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/// Zoid.

Zoid Kirsch Wrote:Yes, any games that use the HL2Master such as all multiplayer Source based games and some of our partner games such as Killing Floor.

For the Left 4 Dead series specifically, the geographical based ordering will provide much better results when searching for dedicated servers from the lobby.

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/// Zoid.

[helio]

thats good

[Nisd]

Wonder if they will use sv_region or ip addresse to deceit where servers are.

[Mooga]

They will be using geo-ip.

I also updated the first post with another small update.