all games everywhere are down

[archaeolept]

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 ]

[Zeikko]

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.

[Ragnarok-X]

Originally posted by Zeikko:
I think this is occurs because of the phone home feature.

uh, "feature" ?

[Zeikko]

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

[Norfleet]

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.

[Kristoffer O]

It is working again.