Okay!  I figured it out! 
 
I'm running EQemu on a lan, behind a router... 
 
I was using zone9x . [WAN IP] 9000 [LAN IP] 
 
for some reason i couldn't zone properly like this, i had to change it to 
 
zone9x . [WAN IP] 9000 [WAN IP] 
 
just posting this so others who have this problem can fix it 
		
	
		
		
		
		
		
		
		
		
		
	
		
		
	
	
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