Unable to connect to DM

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Unable to connect. I get no error messages, it just says... connecting.... over and over.

I can connect to other servers, just not the TS servers. This started on the 18th.

I've tried these things...
= Connect by IP
= Connect by domain
= Reboot PC
= Reboot Router
= Reboot Modem
= Flushed DNS cache
= Downloaded new quake install
= Tried standard quake2, q2 kicker, R1Q2

Anyone got any bright ideas?

It seems like a ban to me, but at a router level or something. quadz checked out my IP and said I am not banned.

Puzzling... Thanks!

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Unable to connect. I get no error messages, it just says... connecting.... over and over.

I can connect to other servers, just not the TS servers. This started on the 18th.

I've tried these things...
= Connect by IP
= Connect by domain
= Reboot PC
= Reboot Router
= Reboot Modem
= Flushed DNS cache
= Downloaded new quake install
= Tried standard quake2, q2 kicker, R1Q2

Anyone got any bright ideas?

It seems like a ban to me, but at a router level or something. quadz checked out my IP and said I am not banned.

Puzzling... Thanks!

can u ping the server?

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It seems like a ban to me, but at a router level or something. quadz checked out my IP and said I am not banned.

There were no Q2/WallFly bans affecting your IP.  However, the system logs on the Dallas box show your IP sent a couple dozen quake "ping" or "status" commands within the span of a second, and so your IP was blocked for flooding.

You wouldn't happen to be using a beta or recent version of the "HLSW" server browser tool by any chance?  As of last month, a beta version of this tool has a bug where it floods "status" packets.  From the server's point of view, this looks like a typical quake traffic-amplification DoS, attacks which are prevalent and which we aggressively block.

I've removed the UDP ban on your IP from the router.  (If you're not using the buggy HLSW version, then the cause of the flood would seem to be a mystery.)


Regards,

quadz

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Thanks I can finally connect!

No I do not use that software. I use R1Q2 to connect to the quake2 servers and Firefox to connect to your HTTP server.  No other tools.
But I do notice that R1Q2 seems to crash at least 2 times per session, to the point that my entire machine crashes to the ground (requires reboot). So i always save my work before I launch into Q2.

I do like the R1CH server browser that you include in your Kicker download. Nice app.

Anyway, job well done. Thank you for digging deep and finding the IP ban.

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