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Arrogance Unstoppable!
Joined: 30 Dec 2003 Location: Canada, Ontario
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Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2006 7:39 am Post subject: Odd Master server Error... Help Needed. |
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Over the past 2-3 weeks I have been experiencing problems with the Master server. It seems that I can CONNECT to the Master, but instead of getting the full 400+ Server List to connect to.. I get a small set of 16 L@P servers and that's all that I can connect to via ZLauncher
I have tried using IDE and I still only recieve the same 16 L@P servers.
Here is what it looks like for me after the Master server has fully refreshed
http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/8387/serverlistjr4.jpg
whenever an IP is read off to me I can connect manually and play fine....
I've talked to a few admins about this issue and none of them seem to know the problem. Has anyone ever delt with this problem before or does anyone have any ideas? |
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Stealth Gone with the wind
Joined: 09 Nov 2004
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Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2006 9:58 am Post subject: |
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It seems that the launcher is suffering large delay when trying to contact the servers. As you can see, the pings even to those few servers is very high. Guessing by what you are saying, in-game ping seems to be ok. It may have something to do with your internet connection.
I've had a similar problem before - in the past for about 1 month all Oblacek servers (or those namely in the Czech Republic) were getting pings of over 200+, when generally it is about 50. All other servers were find, so it must have been a problem with the internet backbone, not allowing traffic to flow directly from the UK to Oblacek.
Have you tried going on websites hosted outside of Germany? By the looks of things, it may be your ISP is fucked up a bit. If you cannot do this either then your ISP is to blame. You should be very angry, and send them a letter telling them how angry you are. |
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enVision A.K.A. Rat-Arsed
Joined: 13 Dec 2002 Location: Lagland
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Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2006 1:11 pm Post subject: |
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Try lowering the list refresh speed. |
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Konar6 Prepare your eyes!
Joined: 11 Apr 2005 Location: Czech Republic
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Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2006 4:25 pm Post subject: |
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It seems like the packet's TTL is lesser than necessary (maybe one of routers on the trace has a blackout), or you could have your firewall wrong configured, or you could have changed max number of simultaneous connections somewhere. |
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Arrogance Unstoppable!
Joined: 30 Dec 2003 Location: Canada, Ontario
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Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2006 5:42 pm Post subject: |
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enVision wrote: | Try lowering the list refresh speed. |
I've tried that and it did not solve the problem:
As for the Germany Server issue... It's not like I'm exactly Just seeing German servers... remember even tho I see the 16 L@P servers. I still can't see the other.. 100
And I'll look into that simultaneous connections thing, maybe that's the case, and it's set to 16? |
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Da_maniaC Now with new lemon fresh scent!
Joined: 03 Jan 2004 Location: Netherlands Posts: 1337
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Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2006 6:00 pm Post subject: |
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This is odd, this is supposed to have been fixed a while ago when the server list seemed to have gotten too big.
I believe it had something to do with how big the data packets were containing the server query information. |
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killingblair Wicked Sick!
Joined: 28 Sep 2004
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Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2006 6:19 pm Post subject: |
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This happens to me too, but not early in the morning for some reason. If I don't refresh all servers in a long time, then very little servers get refreshed when I do. (It takes a big chunk of time too.) |
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Goatface Unstoppable!
Joined: 15 Mar 2006 Location: 208 for life!
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Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2006 6:29 pm Post subject: |
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Preferences at the top, checkmark Periodic Auto-Refresh Blair, Arrogance I can't help. |
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enVision A.K.A. Rat-Arsed
Joined: 13 Dec 2002 Location: Lagland
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Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2006 7:56 pm Post subject: |
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Da_maniaC wrote: | This is odd, this is supposed to have been fixed a while ago when the server list seemed to have gotten too big.
I believe it had something to do with how big the data packets were containing the server query information. |
Which reminds me, I believe some routers still choke when enough packets are received. I think it can be tweaked - providing you're actually using a router. |
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Liquidsnake Unstoppable!
Joined: 07 Apr 2006 Location: irc.oftc.net #FTP
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Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 3:45 am Post subject: |
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Its firewall man, when i joined zdaemon. I only saw like 10 servers, and the rest were blank. I got my dad to unblock it and it worked. Check that... and you better come back >:^/ |
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Arrogance Unstoppable!
Joined: 30 Dec 2003 Location: Canada, Ontario
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Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 7:50 pm Post subject: |
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Sorry, I was away for the week......
Anyways, I have plugged my computer DIRECTLY into the internet (Bypassing the Router) so The router is OUT of the equation. I still only had view of 16 servers.
I had NO Firewall Enabled so that is also out of the equation... what is wrong |
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Chiphead2XS On a Rampage!
Joined: 13 Oct 2003 Location: Germany
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Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 8:00 pm Post subject: |
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Arrogance wrote: | I had NO Firewall Enabled so that is also out of the equation... what is wrong |
Make sure twice - better three times - that you do not have the Windows internal Firewall enabled.
On WinXP SP2 it gets enabled on _every_ network connection by default. |
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Slashher Dominating!
Joined: 14 Mar 2006
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Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 8:15 pm Post subject: |
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Haha youre screwed, your Isp has done something
like closing some UDP ports, I hate when those
bastards do stuff like that... go ahead and complain. |
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Arrogance Unstoppable!
Joined: 30 Dec 2003 Location: Canada, Ontario
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Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 8:19 pm Post subject: |
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Chiphead2XS wrote: | Arrogance wrote: | I had NO Firewall Enabled so that is also out of the equation... what is wrong |
Make sure twice - better three times - that you do not have the Windows internal Firewall enabled.
On WinXP SP2 it gets enabled on _every_ network connection by default. |
I completely Turned off my Windows XP Firewall, and I Disabled my Avast AntiVirus and I had no luck. I know it's nothing to do with my XP firewall because Puppy has the EXACT same problem, and she's on Windows 98 SE
I think I should just bitch at my ISP for being bastards! |
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[n00b]Adereth Spamming!
Joined: 16 Jul 2005 Location: Oh god, what year is this?!
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WeaponX God like!
Joined: 21 Apr 2006 Location: Great Britain
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Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 10:29 pm Post subject: |
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n00b Adereth u bastard! i wanted to post that link but u got there just before me, i remember giving it [RB]WhiteKnight who sometimes cannot even connect to the master! <3 |
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Arrogance Unstoppable!
Joined: 30 Dec 2003 Location: Canada, Ontario
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Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 11:27 pm Post subject: |
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I can connect to the master. I just don't recieve any servers (Other then the 16 L@P servers)
I have tried to figure out what's going on here....
I attempted to join many servers using that link. the ONLY servers I can join through that list are the Maryland servers... All the other ones just give me a "Server is Unreachable" Error.. |
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Slayer420 God like!
Joined: 01 Apr 2005 Location: Chicago
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Posted: Thu Aug 31, 2006 12:02 am Post subject: |
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you STILL have this problem?? |
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Arrogance Unstoppable!
Joined: 30 Dec 2003 Location: Canada, Ontario
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Posted: Thu Aug 31, 2006 12:23 am Post subject: |
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Yes.
This problem has gotten more complecated...
I attempted to view the servers in Americas Army (The Game)
I found that I could see the first 56 servers.. and it went blank as ZD did. That was when I searched through the Gamespy servers, when I looked at the AA Normal Server list, I saw over 1000.
Also, I only see half the ST server list.
This problem is being very random and I want to know wtf's going on |
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switcher Spamming!
Joined: 26 Jun 2004 Location: DUI All The Way
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Posted: Thu Aug 31, 2006 1:04 am Post subject: |
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It sounds like your ISP is doing some selective port blocking.
You really need to do a tracert to the blind servers and see where the problem is.
Just out of curiousity... under "preferences" do you have "Hide Unreachable Servers" checked? |
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