SERVER IS DOWN

Due to a failed telnet restart (and resultant crash) the server is down.....again... [7]

i dont know why the server is down so long, cannot you just make a scheduled task which executes a .bat file every 30 mins which in turn checks the status of the application is 0x1. if its not running, or crashed, then terminate the process and relaunch the server app. this little check could be made every half hour say, just so we get server back up and running.

ban DK for bringing the server down!! [8]

shame this has been 3rd long server outage this weekend, ive been waiting more than playing.

I have such a bad luck that when I sit on the PC to play, guess what, the server is down

It's mostly down in the weekends cause then most people have time to play :p

OP

Seems to be around the same time each night, also, this time it went extrememly laggy and worsened. looks to me the hallmarks of a DDOS attack !?!

that can be the only thing thats causing this, because if the server is good, then it must be the connection. if the server is crashing (i.e. not responding) then theres several win admin tools you can use to detect this from the command line including tasklist, taskkill,
/? - for help

taskkill info...
http://www.microsoft.com/resou…us/taskkill.mspx?mfr=true

and schtasks
info....
http://www.microsoft.com/resou…us/schtasks.mspx?mfr=true

hope the above is useful info to OP if he doesnt already know it. you can use the above tools to make yourself an automated application rebooter with batch files.

if it is a DDOS attack which is what im thinking then theres tools you can get to filter it out, but ive not seen them cheap. because i think theres a lot of very low level coding going on in there.

When i went online tonight there was 6xx ping and server was kicking evry second player for cheat. Console was responding verry slowly and at some moment it cut anny communication also it looks confused about does the server is online or not. Standart ping in windows to the server IP was dropping atleast half of the packages. I managed to shut down the server in the beggining despite it answered with error executing this command and when trying to start again it said evrything is ok but actually never did start it.

hmm could it be that the comp its hosted iff gets tooo full of info and no were to store it if it has .tmp files?

or crappy cables or crappy internet????

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Originally posted by Wavey
Its a new server and we pay a lot of money for it fox

ahhhhh ok... well i would get in touch with them and tell them wat going on if its a company hosting it. and tell them [4] [5] [12] in that sorta order lol

I have no background whatsoever in this sort of thing, but I'm pretty sure it has nothing to do with the hardware fox. It's probably a couple of messed up files or a bogus change that OP just needs to tweak the right way with his magic touch to fix. It'll be back to normal in all due time

heh.. the telnet software that comes with WinXP is awful. Turn HyperTerminal on.

Yep Drakon thats the idea.

Lets all cool down.

New Server, new probs.

We just have to be patient and let OP work through and find a permanent solution.

hyperTerminal comes with XP too ruivo.

yeah, but its better than telnet

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Originally posted by Fox
yeah, but its better than telnet

I have had no issues with TelNet via XP. Been using it for the console for a loooooooooong time now.

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[size=1]Originally posted by Ruivo[/size]
heh.. the telnet software that comes with WinXP is awful. Turn HyperTerminal on.

Checked last night - seems HyperTerminal can be used to connect to the server/console....