On New Server Now

[fathernitwit]

All,

I just wanted to post and let everybody know that we have officially moved to our new server now. More details and what not will be coming eventually, I just wanted to give a little status. Please post if you notice anything wrong with the new setup.

-FNW & Doodman

[zshasis]

can we get on the emulator now?

[Cripp]

Originally Posted by zshasis

can we get on the emulator now?

yup. i think... havent realy tested myself tho lol ;p

cheers.

[techguy84]

Um, I notice a big problem, everything is working fine..... is that normal??? lol j/k

Thanks for the ups fnw, glad everything is going good.

[RangerDown]

On the IRC end:
You didn't compile in support for showing & and ~ channel ranks. I believe it's an option in the configure script; if you just rerun configure and say yes where you said no, then recompile it should be fine.


LE and Rog servers are not connected. Dunno if that's a misconfiguration on your end or if they haven't changed their config to your new IP.

[spikkee]

Originally Posted by fathernitwit

All,

I just wanted to post and let everybody know that we have officially moved to our new server now. More details and what not will be coming eventually, I just wanted to give a little status. Please post if you notice anything wrong with the new setup.

-FNW & Doodman

the only thing wrong with the new setup ive noticed is that whenever i try to log in i cant. I always get a window popping up saying "everquest has encountered a problem and must shut down, please close". i have to try logging in again for another 30 times until it works, so im just wondering, whats wrong with that?

[Darkonig]

It has nothing at all to do with which 'server' is hosting eqemulator.net.
The problem is with the public login server code. Everyone is having this issue and will continue to have it until the login server code is changed, if ever.
See http://www.eqemulator.net/forums/showthread.php?t=22521

[sfisque]

kind of begs the question, if we moved servers, why was the code twiddled with. wouldnt it have been prudent ( i know its now water under the bridge)
to migrate the existing snapshot to the new service and establish a stable footprint before doing any mods/upgrades?

just a curiousity question, if what dark is saying is true. if the the installed snapshot is the same as the older , then it would probably point to something provider side.

if all this pondering is off the mark, then merely dismiss it as ramblings of an old fart developer [career-wise, i'm not "one of the eqemu devs" ]

== sfisque

[Darkonig]

login server code did not appear to be changed. It had that same problem before the move, but with all the new players it just appears to be happening more often.
I play 13 characters several times a week and maybe one or 2 of them will get this error (not always the same character) and when they do get it, it may require only 1 more login attempt or it has taken already more than 20.
But it is not consistent, the only variable found was in packet captures of what the login server sent. If it sent 'Survey packets' the client crashed. If it did not sent 'Survey packets' it did not crash. This behavior did not change at all when the hosting changed.

[John Adams]

There have been quirks with the public login server since I've been around. Blank servers, servers with 7123847893 players, gpf's, no connections, blah blah blah. I think it's just more obvious now because of the influx of new players. And us old(er) timers were just used to it.