EZ Server

Don't think we've got good news for the night people.

EZ Server - Could be up and running, could be failing. Don't rightly know without the login server.

EQEmulator.org - Site not responding to HTTP requests, or pings.
I pulled a WHOIS on the domain and I didn't get a response from Rogean's name servers or from Rogean.com. Based on the address of the administrative company, Rogean Technologies, I pulled the weather there.

http://www.weather.com/weather/map/interactive/02379 (http://www.weather.com/weather/map/interactive/02379)

Could be the issue, could not be, but figured I'd share my quick research with everyone.

OMG!!! You mean I have to watch <gasp> non tivo'd television???

hes in boston? lmao i lived there for 2.5 years in the Air Force, so god is to blame for my non eq tonight? Figures, I'll have to go confess my sins again, look for the server to be back online in a few people, im sure hes just mad at me for my lifestyle this weekened ^.^

Looking at that Doppler I can clearly see where there might be a rotation going on, might be a tornado. Could of took out the power or destroyed the data center for Eqemulator, but thinking again if that happened most data centers that offer server storage have backup power. Unless Eqemulator server is privately run out the persons own home.

Hes talking about the eqemulator server not Ez server

Aww man I have to go to bed early  !? :(

Don't know as of yet. Doing some more research, will post what I find in just a few minutes. Keep in mind, the whois only gives me the address of the administrative company, not necessarily the server location. I'm not a very strong believer in coincidences though :) Will post what I find in a few minutes.

EDIT/UPDATE: I did what i could to find out the status of the internet in that area, but I'm not willing to go any further than what I already have. Sorry I couldn't come up with better information.

im thinking we should scout the project 99 website, and see if any of them know wthell happened, i cant sleep till i know, cause i dont wanna sleep and have it come back up in 20min!!!!

Either a Tornado wiped the place out or the eqemulator site is down cause of some other issues ISP-DDOS attack to anything. It is coincidence our server down same time, well almost. Our server went offline before eqemulator did cause they stayed up awhile after ours was down by at least 20min?

The P99 server is hosted from the same place as the eqemu boards (If anyone has taken the time to check IPs Eqemu and P99 are 1 apart, can't check now because they're down of course) but when P99 site comes up Eqemu's site should be up also, and vice versa.

oh... is all i can say.... apparently you did more homework then me :)

With the firewall at my work I was trying to find a way to bypass the log in server entirely, so that was part of my research.

And for the results, no, couldn't find a way to sneak past the log in server, or I'd prolly be logged in if this server is up :)

@Evilmog: Yeah, I didn't write down the ips beforehand because I was wondering if it was a DNS issue at first so was going to try directly by ip. Have you tried pinging the ips directly or using them as the login server?

@Everyone: I contacted the ISP that's responsible for the login server, but they wouldn't give me any information as to an outage in that area without being an actual customer. This was as far as I was willing to go, and I don't see any purpose in contacting Rogean as I'm sure he's aware of the issue and probably fuming right now. No one likes internet downtime, but unfortunately it does happen. We can't control mother nature. It could just be a classic case of little kid curiosity though too lol. (I don't even know that Rogean has kids haha!)

Tried both, but a friend of mine at SOE explained how the log in server worked, and there was no way it was going to happen.

Not sure I'm awake enough to explain it if you really want to know, PM me and I can explain it later lol

This doesn't pertain to us, our login server has nothing to do with SOE and their login. The basic info everyone needs to know is there is a separate server for login and your servers host is separate for the game world. 1 for login and your servers game world is on another which is Hunters wherever that server is located. Eqemulator is the login server. Best as I can say it in lamens terms.

@Trinity: Good information for people definitely. I think he was speaking to me specifically though about how the login servers work in general. Only problem is that EQEmu is not necessarily SOE's code and probably does not have as many protocols as SOE's does. Things are different on EMU :)

Yup yup exactly.

From what I've deduced from it, the 2 are just about similar, in that neither has a back door for us poor people working for corporations with a ghetto firewall.

Looks like eqemu login server is back up, though most servers are still down.

Well no, I wouldn't have expected a backdoor in the first place. Don't create security vulnerabilities that you don't have to.

I texted rogean to let him know log in was down but now hunter needs to read this and load up EZ now hehe.

Heh...I have a phone number for him, but I don't know him and I wasn't about to go that far. Was he really unaware that it was down?

I'm still getting timeout messages.

piss i cannot even get to server select? wtf

It may have been up for a second or two, but appears to still be down. Need confirmation from other people on status.

I'm at server select right now looking at 4 people logged into PEQ and eqemu forums are up. PEQ is the only world server up atm.

You sure you're not behind a proxy that's caching the information for the forums. I'm getting timeout messages to the login server and can't access anything EQ Emu related. Maybe I haz had ban hamma thrown at me? LoL

Nope, intentionally going to threads i haven't before and I just logged into PEQ.

Why don't you copy and paste one of these links for me then, because I can tell you I'm unable to connect to either of these that you claim to be able to connect to.

naw nuthin is werkn for me either login server down and the website is down for p99 and emu

Yeah I smell a troll.

lored u still up? this scares me bro, i was googling around

http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/06/30/0511234

Check the date.

that was posted on 2005 dude

LoL just pretend you never read that article man. Emu is fine and its doubtful SoE is going to push ANY legal action.

http://i53.tinypic.com/4jxjqp.jpg

Not trolling, though I do find it interesting that I can get to everything while you cannot.

either hes very quick in photochop or he is logged in ^.^

snap your fingers and get our server back up ...tipping well

lored you'll like this

http://irc.netsplit.de/servers/irc.eqemulator.net/

nvm i thought it was connecting to their ip, saying it is up. im probably too tired anyhow, seems pillows are calling me

Either you need to get into counterfeiting, or this is legit. I'm gonna go with legit, but I still don't have an answer as to why you can access the forums and I can't. I even checked googles cached version of the homepage to no avail. Your information was definitely more recent. Still now allowing me to connect though and if I was banned it wouldn't be affecting other people like it is. Funny thing is though I can't find anything on any of the other server forums talking about the login server being down. Guess it time to break out the Hot Pockets and start digging. My apologies for the accusation good sir, i stand corrected.

After contemplating on this for a while now about the only thing I can come up with is that maybe there were some changes made to the DNS server, and my DNS down here in Florida hasn't picked up the table changes yet. Other than that, I'm stumped. Since you can access EQEmu, do me a favor and ping the forum site and give me the IP please if you can.

main site: 67.23.190.71
forums: 64.158.56.56

The address in the eqhost file eqemulator.net:5998 is redirecting to 64.158.56.56 as well. I'm also losing packets occasionally.

ya im in florida too and cant do anything oh well =/

Ok found something. This explains everything and its a lot worse than I first thought :-X

http://www.peqtgc.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=11274 (http://www.peqtgc.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=11274)

http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=986331 (http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=986331)

Xerion, I believe I have an explanation of why you're able to connect. You happen to be in Massachusetts and comcast is your ISP?

Forums and Login Server are back up for me.  EZServer is down though, but I'm playing on another server that is up just fine.

yeah lored i see the servers up now, but 99 ea and rogeon w/e are down, thats not good :( sucks

Nope, i'm in St. Louis on Charter.

The issue was with a whole datacenter that went down including fail safes. Some of this is over my head, but I'm familiar with most of it.

Pretty much here's what I'm gathering from reading the posts by Rogean and other customers of this hosting company.

Netriplex/Uberbandwidth's datacenter lost all routing capabilities somewhere outside their facility. The primary line was brought down for maintenance and during this time the backup line failed. They're suspecting a problem outside the building and engineers are enroute to fix it. I'm not going to go into some of the more technical aspects, but as complicated as it is it should be fixed very soon because this company is losing A LOT, and I mean probably thousands, of dollars right now due to refunds to their customers. Uptime guarantees have clauses in them for refunds usually if the guarantee is not met and from what I was reading on their agreement is that 5 hours of downtime earns you a refund for 1 whole month of service.


EDIT/UPDATE: Ok everything seems to be starting to come back up, but there's definitely still some routing issues going on. I'm keeping tabs on the convo with the host, but I don't know how this is going to affect EZ directly. I can tell you that you should expect high latency while logging in for a little while until this gets resolved, but once you're logged into EZ (Whenever it comes back online) you should be fine.

 Looks like EQemu is back up as of just a little while ago for me as well. some servers still show as down, however. Hopefully this will be resolved here shortly.

 >_>

well i jsut tried to log into peq, and it said error occured while trying to log in, and i weent back to emu to refresh lsit and all servers say pending that were avail before :(

I am off to bed an hoping its plyable tomorrow after work.

Get some rest thinktank ^.^

 

people with charter are able to connect for some reason those of you without were screwed.

I am on Verizon fios and can connect just fine.  P99 is back up, but EZ appears to be down still.

Hey someone that is in contact with Rogean, tell him that i can ping his ip address given on netriplex website just fine from Sacramento,ca ... im on a comcast line, it reads to me:


ping statistics for 67.23.190.65:
    packets: sent = 4. Received = 4. Lost = 0 <0% loss>.
Approximate round trip time in ms:
    Minimum = 102ms Maximum = 104 Average = 103

Dont know if that would help him but he was asking for confirmation in his forum but im not registered there, so i cant reply directly

because emu is backup.

so what i read learned earlier is ez and 1999 are on same line as emu, or originate off it w/e.... then why would ez be down when 1999 is loading full again.. and from reading netriplex forums everyone with a 67.xxx w/e it was ip is down... now its more technical then i can think about at 1am... I dont want to wake up and see it offline

Don't know if everythings back up and running just fine right now, but I can tell you a lot of people in the south eastern US were out of internet for an hour. Going to do quite a bit of searching tomorrow for information on what exactly happened, but something happened on a national level. Spoke with an old coworker of mine who's an engineer for an ISP and he didn't have much time to talk, but he said things weren't good and couldn't give me much information. At the time they were suspecting an attack on a mass scale.

Everything seems to be back up as far as I am concerned.  There are a lot of servers up, but not EZ and PEQ.

Do we have an ETA on uptime for EZ?

havent seen one =/ server prob failed to restart itself afte rit crashed might come back up after 6 when the normal restart is

EZ will prob be back up after 6am server reboot, if all else is working as intended.

This based off an email Hunter posted when the server went off line a while back and he replied to concerns.