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And why so long this time? -Jolande, 5-jan-'11

I believe Sojan is in Austria ATM, and various other trustees are on at strange times. It's also possible that it's a problem that needs to be fixed sitting at the computer itself and can't be done remotely - I have no idea though, and that's probably unlikely. If DW is still down in, say, 24 hours - I will temporarily remove the restriction on no new players for Epitaph so people can hang around there. Drakkos 10:51, 5 January 2011 (UTC)
Hmm, so I just checked wodan's server, and it's cre and pt only - lucky pit and gabriel huh ..... but it seems he might have an old configuration loaded .... so Drakkos, why not exercise your trustee status on wodan.servebeer.com port 4242 and throw it open to players ;) Zexium 13:13, 5 January 2011 (UTC)
I am sure there are plenty of currently serving admin who could be contacted for that. I do know that there are problems in getting Discworld running again remotely, and I suspect the clone won't have the capacity to support much in the way of players. 92.233.142.243 13:39, 5 January 2011 (UTC)

why so often lately?

A useful template might be something that could be used to give multi-zone timestamps. The default would be GMT but if you hovered over the timestamp it would show some other time zones around the place. Maybe even 3 or 4 would give people a 'in your neighbourhood' impression. Rig 20 April.

Any news? Yuki 23:15

see wiki main page announcements Zexium 00:35, 6 January 2011 (UTC)

Don't use disctemp.starturtle.net

Note #20 by Sojan at Thu Jul 28 17:01:44 2022 on board frog On Fri Jul 22 07:32:52 2022, Betta wrote:

> Loading settings file. Attempting connection to: > discworld.starturtle.net:4242 > > Timeout set to 14 seconds. Looked up: 2a02:8010:6224:2::69 for > discworld.starturtle.net >

This will have been because the ISP broke our IPv6 routing with changes they didn't tell us about - I had't noticed. The reason switching to mobile (which I saw as a suggestion down there) would have worked is because very few mobile operators use IPv6 yet even tho they are ideal candidates for it (they prefer a horrible kludge known as CGNAT).

If this happens again then the simplest solution is to force a connection on IPv4, if v4 isn't working as well then things are likely down.

Just to bring up disctemp because someone mentioned it I need to be quite clear about this connection - Don't use it unless directed to.

Disctemp is something I setup during a problem and have just left hanging around rather than closing it off, it runs over my personal internet connection and is subject to me doing whatever the heck I want with it so your connection is prone to all sorts of problems if you are using it. (and before someone says they accept that risk - I'm sure you do until you lose a ton of XP when I decided to chop the connection in a way that impacts you).

Currently I can see 10 connections coming in on it. If this number doesn't go down I will simply close down the firewall rules that allow it and only open them up when needed in future.

J

-- "I am not a Frog, I am a free Womble."


Note #25 by Sojan at Fri Jul 28 23:49:03 2022 on board frog On Thu Jul 28 20:29:28 2022, Oki wrote: > I feel a bit dirty for suggesting this, but maybe there could be a > disc-ipv4.starturtle.net that only resolves to the IPv4 address? >

yeah that does feel a little off, but it's not a bad suggestion for those people that might hit a v6 problem. I've created discworld-ipv4.starturtle.net for that purpose. It's a bit of a kludge as it can't be a CNAME and as such I might forget to flip it if I have to divert traffic for any reason so this is really only for those cases where v6 is a problem.

The v6 problem we experienced was because our ISP switched from statically routing the /48 to requiring prefix delegation via DHCPv6 but didn't tell me, as such they stopped advertising the route and the config we'd had in place for years suddenly stopped working. I don't envisage such a problem happening again anytime soon.

J

-- "I am not a Frog, I am a free Womble."