Can't connect to steam servers :: Half-Life Dedicated Server (Linux)

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Raevenent 10 Jun, 2013 @ 4:38pm

Can't connect to steam servers

Anyone have this problem? I'm trying to get into steam servers with the application on my computer and all I get is can not connect to servers -_- Is there any way to fix this? I contacted steam support and I know it takes ages but if anyone knows how to fix this problem, let me know, also, I'm connected to the internet as I got that server issue

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Someone 26 Aug, 2013 @ 4:32am

hlds updatetool seems to be fundamentally broken.
there are hardcoded IPs to servers that are not reachable anymore.

What (temporalily) solved this problem was some IPTABLES hacking:
add to NAT table:
-A PREROUTING -d 207.173.177.11/32 ! -i eth1 -p tcp -m tcp --dport 27030 -m comment --comment "HLDS hardcoded IP hack" -j DNAT --to-destination 208.64.200.189:27038
-A PREROUTING -d 207.173.177.12/32 ! -i eth1 -p tcp -m tcp --dport 27030 -m comment --comment "HLDS hardcoded IP hack" -j DNAT --to-destination 208.64.200.189:27038
-A PREROUTING -d 69.28.151.178/32 ! -i eth1 -p tcp -m tcp --dport 27038 -m comment --comment "HLDS hardcoded IP hack" -j DNAT --to-destination 208.64.200.189:27038
-A PREROUTING -d 69.28.153.82/32 ! -i eth1 -p tcp -m tcp --dport 27038 -m comment --comment "HLDS hardcoded IP hack" -j DNAT --to-destination 208.64.200.189:27038
-A PREROUTING -d 68.142.88.34/32 ! -i eth1 -p tcp -m tcp --dport 27038 -m comment --comment "HLDS hardcoded IP hack" -j DNAT --to-destination 208.64.200.189:27038
-A PREROUTING -d 68.142.72.250/32 ! -i eth1 -p tcp -m tcp --dport 27038 -m comment --comment "HLDS hardcoded IP hack" -j DNAT --to-destination 208.64.200.189:27038

the comment and the "! -i eth1" parts may be omitted (know what you are doing)
Now i can connect, but get the message: "ProtocolError - Bad message LengthPrefix" which seems to be a showstopper here