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What is wrong with the Spring server!?!?!?!?
Posted: 30 Mar 2006, 19:24
by hrmph
I can only connect to the spring website maybe one try out of ten or fifteen. Half the time when I do get connected after surfing the forum for awhile the connection cuts out again. With the lobby I have almost the same situation. If I stay connected I won't be disconnected automatically; but half the time when I leave and try to reconnect I cannot. Probably along the the same one attempt out of ten or fifteen makes it... What is the issue? I've heard other people are having the same problem, is there anything that can be done about it? An alternative host perhaps?? I hate to think that lots of new users are experiencing this and deciding to not even try spring out.
Posted: 30 Mar 2006, 21:05
by LOrDo
Im on dial up, and I have no such problem. Mabye check what internet the other people have and see if it has to do with the connection, its not the spring server I know that.
Posted: 30 Mar 2006, 22:12
by hrmph
Well something is loopy. What country are you in lordo? When doing a traceroute from another machine on another isp to taspring.clan-sy.com the packets never reach their destination. When I do a traceroute from my own machine the packet eventually reaches taspring.clan-sy.com but reports many 'query name errors' (DNS errors) from nameservers along the way (like 7 plus).
Note: The below happens until I manually shutdown the attempt.. I've let it run for 10 minutes with the same result. Leaving it running for longer one time it finally timed out at 30.
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1 spb-62-141-127-101.sovintel.spb.ru (62.141.127.101) 6.696 ms 7.702 ms 6.042 ms
2 cs6500-bmor.spb.gldn.net (195.218.145.157) 9.144 ms 8.064 ms 7.920 ms
3 cisco0-g-0-0.Spb.gldn.net (194.67.7.177) 7.268 ms 8.417 ms 7.539 ms
4 cisco02.Moscow.gldn.net (194.186.157.113) 17.285 ms 17.371 ms 16.886 ms
5 POS6-2.GW9.STK2.ALTER.NET (146.188.48.29) 40.614 ms 40.975 ms 42.009 ms
6 so-4-0-0.XR1.STK3.ALTER.NET (146.188.7.77) 42.102 ms 41.675 ms 47.948 ms
7 POS0-0-0.BR2.STK3.ALTER.NET (146.188.7.9) 42.052 ms 43.564 ms 42.932 ms
8 netnod-ix-ge-b-sth-1500.se.sn.net (194.68.128.41) 43.143 ms 43.009 ms 42.006 ms
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Posted: 30 Mar 2006, 22:28
by Aun
Exactly the same problem as hrmph...
Posted: 30 Mar 2006, 22:39
by hrmph
This is not an isolated event... Bigsteve even commented as to how there are very few Americans on the lobby today (I'm thinking this is why)...
Here is a chat excerpt showing other people with the same problem (Note, Aun is in Great Britain, Sabutai is in Germany, and Ranma/Mother are in America):
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[2:22:24 PM] <hrmph> ive been having extreme network problems connecting to the spring servers
[2:22:31 PM] <Aun> me too
[2:22:39 PM] <Sabutai> so have i
[2:23:15 PM] <Aun> the website and the server seem like they're down for a while, but when i connect there a re a lot of people on
[2:27:14 PM] <Aun> just tried http://network-tools.com , times out
[2:27:21 PM] <Aun> for traceroute
[2:29:52 PM] <Aun> http://www.traceroute.org/
[2:29:57 PM] <Aun> trying as many as i can
[2:30:17 PM] <Aun> timeout from austria
[2:32:29 PM] <Aun> timeout from brasil
[2:32:59 PM] <Ranma> finly got to log on ><
[2:33:10 PM] <Aun> ah ha!
[2:33:16 PM] <hrmph> Ranma: how long did it take you how many attempts?
[2:34:23 PM] <Aun> timeout from hong kong
[2:34:24 PM] <mother> lol hrmph
[2:34:31 PM] <hrmph> mother: ?
[2:34:59 PM] <mother> tried to respond to your thead b4
[2:35:07 PM] <mother> but by the time I hit preview the server went away
[2:35:23 PM] <hrmph> have you been having problems with the lobby too?
[2:35:59 PM] <mother> not the lobby so much as the website
[2:36:21 PM] <hrmph> for me it happens to both, the lobby only connects like one try out of 10 or 15
[2:36:54 PM] <Aun> i have the same problem as hrmph
Yet another - "[3:08:41 PM] <Zerzera> anyone else having trouble connecting to taspring.clan-sy.com?"
And another - "[3:33:00 PM] <Shifty_Powers> was the server down earlyer?"
Posted: 31 Mar 2006, 06:25
by Maelstrom
Ive been having problems for the last 2 days as well.
Posted: 31 Mar 2006, 12:34
by Tobi
Same for me. Usually it doesn't work, and starts working only after I add some random DNS servers from
http://80.247.230.136/dns.htm to /etc/resolv.conf (running linux) and ping the server.
Posted: 31 Mar 2006, 16:56
by ginekolog
i have similar problem so there must be sth with dns record of clan-sy.com, their ISP or their server.
Posted: 31 Mar 2006, 17:01
by mother
Found an interesting blurb... but to be honest this doesn't explain the problem.
Network Status
Last Update Time: 3/23/06 06:00 am EST
There was a problem with a DDOS against ns3 which only lasted 45 minutes, but the ISP null routed (i.e. blocked) not just ns3, but all of the servers we have on their network, which they say they will lift after 7 days. We are currently in the process of setting up new boxes at a new facility, but unfortunately it's taking somewhat longer than it has in past. We expect to restore full service within 24-48 hours. All zones have DNS service provided by at least two distinct locations, so DNS for the affected zones should operate normally using the second nameserver.
If you depend on reliable DNS service, we recommend logging into your account, clicking on "Nameservers" and purchasing a "tertiary" nameserver. 3 nameservers are exponentially more reliable than 2 nameservers.
I am however willing to bet that zoneedit is otherwise screwing the pooch here.
EDIT: FWIW clan-sy.com has 2 registered nameservers, one of which is the above ns3.
Posted: 31 Mar 2006, 19:20
by NOiZE
I had this too!
believe it or not, restarting IE fixed it
Posted: 31 Mar 2006, 20:58
by Masse
something odd is happening this site never works after i have stopped playing oblivion
Posted: 31 Mar 2006, 21:11
by AF
hmm darkstars.co.uk uses zoneedit.com too yet i dont see any of these problems, anyone else seeing problems?
Posted: 31 Mar 2006, 21:23
by Rayden
After changing my DNS Server everything went fine again
Posted: 31 Mar 2006, 23:28
by patmo98
The lobby servers were down for me yesterday. I think it happened about noon.
Posted: 31 Mar 2006, 23:38
by diggz2k
It works fine everytime if you just put in the ip directly. I can't connect at all when I use the namespace.
82.99.9.203
Posted: 01 Apr 2006, 00:14
by hrmph
diggz2k wrote:It works fine everytime if you just put in the ip directly. I can't connect at all when I use the namespace.
82.99.9.203
This is completely un-true. I've tried the IP several times when experiencing the problem, all with the same effect.
Posted: 01 Apr 2006, 02:54
by Candleman
same problem here; this is the first time i've been able to get on for a day or so.