Hello, I wanted to create a public server for playing with my friends.So i started off with the hlds and did the port forwarding and finally my server was accepted and it was online.But the problem is neither i or my friends can connect to it.When i enter the ip address of that server in the console and press enter it says: "establishing network connection to that server" and then "retrying connection to that server" and then "retrying network connection to that server(2) and then "retrying connection to that server(3) and then it shows "Failed to connect to server". I don't understand what the problem is ?

PS : Thanx in advance for your help.

may be its ur network problem !! try again later at another time