The problem is that there is no way to set a zone server to use any specific port when a zone crashes and restarts. It will just use the next available one, but I don't think it ever uses the same one it was on before.
Unfortunately, this means that there is no way in the current system for me to setup my servers to run zones on both of them without risking zones being unavailable due to being on the wrong port.
I am going to make a post in the bugs section about the launcher_zones table port setting being completely pointless. I am also going to make a feature request for an entry in the config file to let it set port assignment per zone server.
Code:
<zones>
<defaultstatus>0</defaultstatus>
<!-- Sets port range for world to use to auto configure zones -->
<ports zonea low="7000" high="7049"/>
<ports zoneb low="7050" high="7100"/>
</zones>
With "zonea" being the name of the zone launcher set in the start.bat file (start eqlaunch.exe zonea) of the world server and "zoneb" being the name of the zone launcher set in the zone server batch file (start eqlaunch.exe zoneb).
I think that would be the simplest solution. And again, once I get this all worked out, I will write up a nice guide in the wiki for it.
I hope I don't get mattmeck'd (tm) for making double posts! This post here is for support, the bug post I am going to make is to get the ports issue filed as a bug and the feature request post is the one to request a new setting in the config file. IMO, those are all separate even though they do all relate to this one same issue. Maybe posting the right things in the right places will get them looked at by the right people.