all games everywhere are down
 

looks like there's some authentication problem w/ the machines needing to "phone home" in order to verify the legitimacy of their keys. perhaps the relevant illwinter server is down?

or perhaps there's a more serious bug?

started at about 2:30 EST

so far, no one can connect (not even asking for a port) to mosehansen games, kludgemush games, and zeikko's own hosted game. Anyone else have any info?

[ April 18, 2004, 18:42: Message edited by: archaeolept ]

Re: all games everywhere are down
 

There's something happening. When you try to connect to a network game, type ip/hostname nothing happens. The stars keep passing by but no port is asked.

This came up maybe 10 minutes ago, I can't even join on local network game.

I think this is occurs because of the phone home feature.

Re: all games everywhere are down
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">uh, "feature" ?

Re: all games everywhere are down
 

Yea, it's feature, but something has gone wrong now.

Re: all games everywhere are down
 

Controlled experiments strongly suggest that the Illwinter Spyware Server is partially borked: As a result, Dom2 connects, tries to get a meaningful response out of it, but nothing happens, so Dom2 hangs.

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It is working again.

Re: all games everywhere are down
 

<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Yes...a very small game developer, taking a *very* small step to protect themselves, their livelihood, and their increasingly popular intellectual property from piracy, is "spyware". http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/rolleyes.gif

Give me - and Illwinter - a break.

Re: all games everywhere are down
 

ehh, I think calling it "spyware" is stupid.

however, if it interferes w/ the ability to play games, then that's a real issue.

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not a major problem if the server doesnt go down again. maybe there will be a check added to the next patch to catch down-server

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">My thoughts exactly. Personally I was impressed that the issue was resolved in an hour's time at what must've been an inconvenient hour Illwinter-time.

That said, as Arch points out, it becomes an issue if the problem continues to repeat itself. However, IW's track record leads me to give them the benny of the doubt. Somehow I think they'll make sure it's not a recurring issue.