Kyp

Disable packet optimization and prototype reordering unless you know you need them, those are for special networking scenarios. That said, the rest of it.. waiting for the server almost looks like something is intercepting traffic back to your computer. So what Karu is saying is where net7 is installed there is a net7proxy.exe, so if you have a virus scanner or firewall make sure the directory you installed our stuff in is exempt, as well as the directory where E&B itself is installed. These are old games and without an exception in such tools, some of the things happening might be considered 'bad guy' type behavior.

It should be resolved now, this wasn't an issue with any local certificate being installed as long as your computer trusts the certs for the Certificate Authority "Let's Encrypt". Most computers will out of the box, unless they've got a customized OS for security or other reasons like that.

I believe there's an FAQ pinned here somewheres, but that could be a couple of different things. The most common being that it's pointed to "e&b.exe" instead of "client.exe" in the launcher, wherever those are installed. "e&b.exe" was the EA official patch. It also could be that same authlogin file that is not correct, it is under your client folder somewhere wherever you installed it but that file is used to get the client to connect to the patch portal it's supposed to be using, the reason it gives the out of date, until you update is that the original version points to EA's systems and the latest version points to our 'patch.net-7.org'.

Thanks, Yes, I am aware as of this am due to a heads up from Woodstock. I am looking at it, this is not the certificate I have associated so not sure what is going on (yet). I'll try to get it sorted out but you *should* be able to bypass this, I think.

Another thing to try if you check what Karu says and it's still not working could be .th6 files which have to do with all that. There's an option on the launcher to 'delete th6 files' which should cause them to re-download to you. That said if you can give a step-by-step of your screens that might enable us to see better what the problem is as you're going.

Rename or delete the authlogin.dll and see if/let it download the latest one and then see if you still receive that message.

Coming back up.

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It was not caused by DNS. Something happened with the host that broke their e-mail interactions with our account so it was acting like we were not authorized to send/receive mail. This is corrected and should be working fine now.

Ok main thrust of things is done for the interruptions. I have restarted the game server, am not expecting another outage. Please let the game masters know if anything seems very unusual post update.

Sometime today I will be on to take the game down. I was informed there was starting to be some issues manifest from runtime so I'm gonna get everything up to date and bring it all back up again. This may mean a little downtime, but I'm not expecting it to take too long. I have done everything I can for the updates to cut out overhead time.

This sounds more like the connection is letting itself be idle. When dealing in UDP the communication has to keep active most of the time, this is one of the reasons mobile hotspots aren't great for playing because they are trying to idle connections with battery saver techs. For Win11 assuming the above isn't true and it isn't a laptop make sure you have a constant power supply and set your power settings to performance (at least while you play). I'd give it a try at any rate. I can leave my desktop computer sitting for hours with me logged in in space OR on a station but UDP is pretty unforgiving about closing connections. It's not capable of providing a state so if there is no communication from host in x amount of time, then close connection.

Primary maintenance for today is done, should be a little cleanup tomorrow that might cause some freeze/delay while it happens and probably some forum upgrades

I am trying to do all the non-disruptive stuff first, but there are some nasty evil hobbitses out there in the wild, and things need their updates. Bypasses have got to be built, right? Anyway, when I get there, there'll be an outage while I update the game server and the security tools to the latest versions.

That's not a tech support issue, more of an account/billing issue which is the purview of the GM team, typically. Open a GM ticket, provide the account name, the old e-mail address you believe it is, and something else to help us identify the account and we can go from there. As a security professional would say, "Something you have, and something you know." in the absence of true SSO or MFA options thanks to the age of the game. GM Ticket system

I should say it does for me, but then again as I'm permitted to pass the firewalls I might not see the same thing, but I do also see people on the server changing sectors so I'm guessing it's a config thing.

This would be your launcher/config somehow, Shows online just fine right now.

Might have been purged when we went live depending on the timing, but yeah as above.

Maintenance completed (albeit late/today) and was unexpectedly larger than I gave it credit for. Server coming back up now.

This shouldn't take too long, just need to update some of our software. Anyway, heads up!

Still running. See install guides under tech support and hit up https://www.net-7.org for downloads.

It's probably moreso that it was a generic firewall setting that was refusing because the firewall doesn't trust the signature of the certs or something but who knows. Once we get things in a proper order perhaps I can get us a code signing cert and sign it all then it'll stop being such a hassle with security utilities.

In order: Has it been considered? Yes Does the modern emulator run on Linux? No, there is a mix of Windows, Linux, and FreeBSD operating systems. Will Docker be something we look at in short order? Probably not, but mainly because there's plenty of stuff to fix before we create a standalone container that everyone could use reliably. As it is, you sorta have to know what interacts with what to prevent breakages.

We might have experienced a minor timewarp in the forums. Sorry about that. Part of the fixes I was doing today. Hopefully all else is pretty well back to normal.

Need to do some routine maintenance and server restarting. Hamster gene resequencing and the like. At any rate, there'll be an outage. Ill at least ask if any raids are ongoing... probably.