Trouble with zones

[Bandor]

So I just updated my source to the new version off of the repack. Everything is running smoothly aside from 1 thing. Zones are going to sleep when empty and not wanting to wake back up. People are having trouble getting into any 'empty' zone. I have updated by loaded zones from 5 to 10 now its up to 50 and it doesnt seem to be helping. Also Zserver keeps spitting out a bunch of random letters everytime I zone now. Any ideas as to what could be going on?

[Bandor]

Constantly getting 'Zone is unavailable' message when trying to get in game.

[provocating]

You said you upped your zones, but did you forward those ports? The extra zones means nothing if the ports are not forwarded.

[Bandor]

Yes,I have ports 7000-8000 open to cover any thing like this and only 5 playable zones,with a maximum of 50 So im not sure why its not letting anyone get in.

[provocating]

You need to check some of your zone logs, more than likely your evidence will be there.

[Bandor]

[01.16. - 09:37:55] Client 'No name' was destroyed before reaching the connected state:
[01.16. - 09:37:55] Client sent initial zone packet, but we never got their player info from the database.

Thats the only thing I can notice that has any negative conantation,everything else appears to be fine. The Zone logs just says zones are sleeping and listening on ports(which are open)

The code above is from zone_debug.

[Bandor]

Newest debug

[01.16. - 11:06:57] Client 'No name' was destroyed before reaching the connected state:
[01.16. - 11:06:57] Client has not sent us an initial zone entry packet.

[provocating]

I need the error log for the exact same zone.

[Bandor]

Originally Posted by provocating

I need the error log for the exact same zone.

I dont see any logs on a zone by zone basis just eqemu_zone , eqemu_debug_zone , and zone-dynamic

[Bandor]

Should I add a zone to the zone_launcher table? Im just not sure what happened everything was working fine then out of nowhere all this started.

[Bandor]

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[01.16. - 11:45:13] Starting Log: logs/eqemu_zone_15020.log
[01.16. - 11:45:13] ---- Zone server steppes, listening on port:7049 ----
[01.16. - 11:45:16] Zone shutdown: going to sleep
[01.16. - 11:49:15] ---- Zone server steppes, listening on port:7049 ----
[01.16. - 11:49:18] Zone shutdown: going to sleep
[01.16. - 11:53:48] ---- Zone server steppes, listening on port:7049 ----
[01.16. - 11:53:51] Zone shutdown: going to sleep
[01.16. - 12:01:32] ---- Zone server steppes, listening on port:7049 ----
[01.16. - 12:01:37] Zone shutdown: going to sleep
[01.16. - 12:06:31] ---- Zone server steppes, listening on port:7049 ----
[01.16. - 12:06:34] Zone shutdown: going to sleep
[01.16. - 12:09:05] ---- Zone server steppes, listening on port:7049 ----
[01.16. - 12:09:24] Zone shutdown: going to sleep
[01.16. - 12:13:12] ---- Zone server steppes, listening on port:7049 ----
[01.16. - 12:13:15] Zone shutdown: going to sleep
[01.16. - 12:17:36] ---- Zone server steppes, listening on port:7049 ----
[01.16. - 12:17:41] Zone shutdown: going to sleep
[01.16. - 12:26:40] ---- Zone server steppes, listening on port:7049 ----
[01.16. - 12:26:43] Zone shutdown: going to sleep

Thats the return when attempting to zone in.

[provocating]

That does not look like the error log? Are you positive?

[Bandor]

I cant find any error logs anywhere. Just eqemu_zone log and zone debug logs.

[trevius]

When you updated your source, did you complete the auto-db update menu options to continue starting world? If you do not run the required SQL and then exit that menu, world will not load and zones won't be able to connect to it which will cause the launcher to keep booting them I think. I assume you are running the server on Windows. What does your world command prompt window say in it after you start the server?


Also, you increased your zone count in your launcher table and forwarded the ports in your router, but did you also increase your port range in your server config file to match?

[provocating]

Originally Posted by trevius

Also, you increased your zone count in your launcher table and forwarded the ports in your router, but did you also increase your port range in your server config file to match?

Good call, it is also in your eqemu_config.xml file