Glory (MA game)- game is live

[chrispedersen]

3.17 ... perhaps that was a bad idea - but I wanted to get the bug fixes in.

Calahan, is having trouble with the game crashing. Speaking on that Cal, have you tried running it in a virtual environment like VirtualPC or VMware?

I find that works pretty darn well ....

[kasnavada]

Doesn't work here either.

[Hoplosternum]

I can't get in either....

[hunt11]

me too

[Xanatos]

IP address of the server - 74.236.0.134
Port number of the server - 1024

on new patch 3.17

not letting me connect.

[JimMorrison]

According to Dom, the server is down, or my internet connection is down. :O

[lch]

I just tried connecting, too, and I can't. I can't even ping the host. I remembered that I developed a PHP script once to check on network games which I used for myself to check on the games that I am hosting, and luckily I even found some backups of it locally on my system here. I'll try to get it online and then chris can use that to check if other people are able to connect to his server or not.

[chrispedersen]

Hey Ich...

Any tips anyone wants to give me that makes this smoother, I am happy to try out.

I am using a static ip with a firewall with pass thru forwarding on port 1024 to the machine hosting. The machine, the router, the switch are all on a UPS.

I've checked for dropped packets coming via dslreports and came up clean....

[lch]

Okay, firewall would explain why the ping is discarded. Although that's a pretty overzealous thing to do for a firewall, take away the easiest and most obvious way to detect if a system is alive and reachable on the net. Some services might even depend on it by sending a ping first before they do more stuff on the net. Dunno if Dom3 is among those.

I have uploaded my server check script here: http://valhalla.srhost.info/socket.php
It will first connect to Velusion's Fallacy game (so that you can see that the script is indeed working) and then to your server.

You can check if your port 1024 is reachable outside here:
http://www.canyouseeme.org/
http://www.port-scan.de/lynx/select.php
Just enter your port number 1024 in those and submit. Don't mind the German on the second one, you just have to look at the reply. If it doesn't say "open" (which they will display in red, because they check if a firewall works, not a service), then others can't connect to your game.

I know that other people have hosted games behind hardware / software routers, so you could use the search function here.

[Calahan]

Chrispedersen

Haven't had chance to go through any problem solving techniques yet. And will struggle to find time to do that before Sunday now. Sadly :-(

Will certainly look into creating a virtual PC environment like you suggest when I do though.

I've already submitted my first turn for Glory2 using Dom 3.15. Will that be accepted or not? (I'm guessing not if the server was created with 3.17) And will I be able to submit future turns using Dom 3.15?

If the answer is no to both questions, then it might be best to find a sub for me, since I have no idea how long my 3.17 problems will take to fix, although it will likely be Sunday by the earliest, and that's only if everything goes well.

I don't want to ask for any delays either since this game has easily had enough of those already.

Guess my aging rig may have finally caught up with me :-(