How to Connect to Server When DNS is Down

[Gunter]

I tried to get Bing's AI to draw a happy new year shambler. This is what I got.

happyshammy by A O, on Flickr

[gulliver-trans]

Cool, Gunter. He's a fuzzy little guy. I guess that's a sort of Rankin 'n' Bass style? Or that holiday troll/gnome meme. Seems like it's from the 70s?

I just played the Christmas Jam Pack for 2022 (didn't see one for 2023). Tax time procrastination, you know? It had some fun moments and picturesque scenes, though some maps were more festive than others.

https://www.slipseer.com/index.php?reso ... -2022.165/



By the way, I can't connect to the server again, just FYI (sorry).

[Gunter]

Well, I guess I'll try to send Foq a PM and see if he's still around.
I just got a PM from Samhain asking if we need assistance to keep the server running.

[gulliver-trans]

Thank you, Gunter

[foq]

The server should be connectable again, again (again?). More CGNAT weirdness, but this time I think I've found the root cause (and here up until now I was thinking they'd just periodically remove "no cgnat" people from some list, whether accidentally or purposefully, heh). When I would call and complain about CGNAT, the ISP would add my router's MAC address to some whitelist and CGNAT would be removed... but, whenever my router would reboot, it would seemingly grab a MAC address from a random device on the network and report that, rather than reporting its own. I did have a custom firmware (Asus-wrt Merlin) installed, and I've since installed the stock firmware again, which magically gave me a real public IP again (I probably had CGNAT removed the first time before I installed Merlin), so hopefully the MAC fuckery was something Merlin was doing.

So hopefully the server will be more stable now. I'm sorry I haven't been able to get to it sooner. I know the server's been unreachable for a little while now at this point, but I've been quite busy with some real life stuff. But we should be all good now. If we still have problems with CGNAT after this, my next move will be to go and buy a new router. This one still works fine outside of some MAC fuckery, but it's also quite old and has been EOL for some time now, so getting a new one at this point wouldn't necessarily break my heart either.

[gulliver-trans]

Thank you, foq. Not much traffic lately, I guess. So I don't think it's quite an urgent thing -- it's just nice to see it up and running.

Anyhow, I might try out these maps that I just spotted. Maybe the FvF group could play them coop at some scheduled date & time.

Deathmatch Dimension
https://www.quaddicted.com/reviews/dmd.html

1.03 Download:
https://www.slipseer.com/index.php?reso ... update-361

Edit 1:
First impression: This is like the stock DM maps, remixed into campaign maps. Makes sense, given the name.

There's some progs.dat included with v103, but I think that might be an oversight? So far I don't seem to need it.

[Wolf]

Got the 7 year itch after telling the girlfriend how I grew up playing Quake/FvF 28 years ago, and thinking of introducing her to improve on her mouse+keyboard handling. So it got me back here to checking how things are going with y'all. Noticing that both fvf.servequake.com and fvf.fvfonline.com are not connectable. Also password reset for the forum here wasn't working, so ended up just registering a new account.

Anyone still alive?

~Wolf / mattjb

[gulliver-trans]

Couldn't connect last time I tried. Then I could the next day? Anyhow, this is foq's department, I'm afraid.

Unless gunter needs to register that DNS service again.

[Wolf]

The DNS A record for fvf.servequake.com appears to be gone. If it's on one of those free hostnames like from dyndns/noip, then they may be requiring a ~30-day manual renewal.

[gulliver-trans]

Yeah. Used to by quakeip or something with a funny name.

[Gunter]

D'oh. Yep. MS Mail cleint stopped working so I never noticed the monthly email to renew the free hostname... and so that expired and is now "in redemption" where I'd have to pay $3 to fix it. Or I wait another week and it will be deleted, after which I an re-claim it for free. So that's what I'm gonna do. (Tran should have mailed me a week earlier, heh.)

I could go in and fix the fvfonline dns... uh... if I knew the correct IP to set it to. I'm sure it's around here somewhere....

Ok, should be: 24.239.125.195

EDIT: And now that is working at fvf.fvfonline.com

[Gunter]

Also password reset for the forum here wasn't working, so ended up just registering a new account.

Anyone still alive?

~Wolf / mattjb

Hm, did you check to see if the password reset mail went to your spam folder? I can probably go in and manually reset the password. What's the username?

I guess it's the user named "Wolf" with an email at hotmail, dodgy003 ?
(that would be where the password reset email would have gone)

[Wolf]

Also password reset for the forum here wasn't working, so ended up just registering a new account.

Anyone still alive?

~Wolf / mattjb

Hm, did you check to see if the password reset mail went to your spam folder? I can probably go in and manually reset the password. What's the username?

I guess it's the user named "Wolf" with an email at hotmail, dodgy003 ?
(that would be where the password reset email would have gone)

Correct on user Wolf and hotmail address.
Checked spam folder - nothing at all.