Having Trouble Connecting? Asking For Updates

ElvenThief

<div class="IPBDescription">or WON not AUTHING you? Answers below.</div> Well, this is a big one, and I want everyone to be able to get somewhere from my topic.

If you get an error saying something about UPDATING HALF-LIFE, it is merely an error.

It appears the the WON authentication servers have changed IP addresses or something of the sort. If you can't connect to any games, it means that your ISP's DNS server hasn't refreshed to get the new IP address.
This is merely my guess, but I've got a fix that will let you play:

I got this from <a href='http://forums.caleague.com/cgi-ubb/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=31&t=000090#000002' target='_blank'>http://forums.caleague.com/cgi-ubb/ultimat...t=000090#000002</a>, but I'll repost his information.

Open up the file "woncomm.lst" in your Valve folder and paste this into it:



// Server Lists
//
Titan
{
half-life.east.won.net:6003
198.74.33.62:6003
half-life.central.won.net:6003
}

Auth
{
half-life.east.won.net:7002
198.74.33.62:7002
half-life.central.won.net:7002
}

Master
{
half-life.east.won.net:27010
198.74.33.62:27010
half-life.central.won.net:27010
}

ModServer
{
half-life.east.won.net:27011
198.74.33.62:27011
half-life.central.won.net:27011
}

Secure
{
half-life.speakeasy-nyc.hlauth.net:27012
half-life.speakeasy-sea.hlauth.net:27012
half-life.speakeasy-chi.hlauth.net:27012
}


This should pretty much fix you up. It worked for me.
To reiterate: THERE ARE NO UPDATES, WON's IP address by your ISP is FUXORED. THE ABOVE INFO FIXES IT.

My guess is that your ISP will eventually pick up the correct DNS info, but this little patch hardcodes the IP address. Probably will need to be fixed the next time WON server's IP is changed.

[EDIT] I found this fix from some guy who posted it on the Cal League forums. He was telling everyone in #caleague-ns on IRC about it. Props to him. The above link is where he posted it.

[EDIT for non Techy Linguists]
Whenever you type in an address like www.yahoo.com, your internet service provider (isp) translates that into an IP address. In this case, yahoo's IP address is 216.109.125.66
The program that translates it is the ISP's DNS server. Directory Name Service, I believe
Now, anytime an address such as www.yahoo.com gets assigned to a different IP, the major DNS servers get updated and then your ISP's DNS servers refresh themselves with the new updates. All very interesting, but what appears to have happened is that WON got new IP address. The above fix changes the english name of some WON servers to the actual IP address, hence eliminating the need for a DNS server. Very useful, but won't work the next time the IP address changes.

KboT

I try to Open the Woncomm.lis or whatever and it says I dont have an approite viewing program...

MMZ_Torak

Use notepad.

But it still didn't help me <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif'><!--endemo-->

KboT

I tried WordPad/Notepad but then I realized it wont save it as a .lst file.

ElvenThief

Change your file type when you save to "all files". God help us if editing a file is beyond us <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->

KboT

<!--QuoteBegin--E-Th33ph+Feb 3 2003, 06:31 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (E-Th33ph @ Feb 3 2003, 06:31 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Change your file type when you save to "all files". God help us if editing a file is beyond us. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
haha okie Ill try that

KboT

Yeah it worked! Gj guys