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Regarding July 20 "SERVER INSPECTION" incident

Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2007 4:28 am
by disconnected2007
Many poeple i believe are experiencing "server inspection" for at least 48 hours since july 20. At the beginning i thought its my network problem i called my internet provider they said they received some reports regarding people not being able to run the SRO client, more than that they cannot even browse sro website. Most of them are from USA/Canada, whats going to with joymax?? My internet provider test http://www.silkroadonline.net , they cannot access into it too. Did Joymax block all the N.America access??


I have another korean online game too, SAME problem with ISRO... whats the heck with Korean??

Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2007 4:33 am
by Apocalypse57
im in montreal canada and i have no problem playing, or looking at the website.... Oh and BTW your url has a comma at the end it's supposed to be http://www.silkroadonline.net

Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2007 4:35 am
by _Shinigami_
lol what? i could run isro since after the inspection

Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2007 4:35 am
by disconnected2007
Apocalypse57 wrote:im in montreal canada and i have no problem playing, or looking at the website.... Oh and BTW your url has a comma at the end it's supposed to be http://www.silkroadonline.net


fixed the post, but the site wont work here even with correct address

Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2007 4:36 am
by Apocalypse57
thts wierd?

Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2007 4:39 am
by zelzin
http://121.128.133.11/ - Does that work for you?

Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2007 4:40 am
by Juicy
not really, u can go to the site but nothing loads only text

Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2007 4:42 am
by disconnected2007
zelzin wrote:http://121.128.133.11/ - Does that work for you?


OH YES!!! What have u done??? i can see the web now..BUT just the image didnt load

Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2007 4:43 am
by zelzin
Your ISP is having DNS issues.

If you find the IP address for the game servers and add them to your host file you'll be able to play again.

I'd also report this to JM.

Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2007 4:44 am
by Juicy
can you find me the ip for rome if thats what u mean

Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2007 4:46 am
by disconnected2007
zelzin wrote:Your ISP is having DNS issues.

If you find the IP address for the game servers and add them to your host file you'll be able to play again.

I'd also report this to JM.


im noob to IT thing or network thing..what DNS means? what shouid i do now?

Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2007 4:46 am
by zelzin
You don't need the IP address for the actual server.

I'll see what I can do...

Edit:

Open your host file with notepad. Located at "C:/WINDOWS/System32/drivers/etc/host".

It should look something like this:

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# Copyright (c) 1993-2006 Microsoft Corp.
#
# This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows.
#
# This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. Each
# entry should be kept on an individual line. The IP address should
# be placed in the first column followed by the corresponding host name.
# The IP address and the host name should be separated by at least one
# space.
#
# Additionally, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual
# lines or following the machine name denoted by a '#' symbol.
#
# For example:
#
#      102.54.94.97     rhino.acme.com          # source server
#       38.25.63.10     x.acme.com              # x client host

127.0.0.1       localhost


Add this to the end of the file (below the localhost entry):

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121.128.133.26 gwgt1.joymax.com


Hopefully that will allow you to connect. Remember if this IP address ever changes again you'll have to edit the file again.

Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2007 4:49 am
by ciddy
Same problem...

i have cable, but i'm at china >_>

Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2007 4:50 am
by knicksfan123
you need to lube up your mother board. That way your electrons will flow faster and your internet speeds will be greatly boosted resulting in the uber pwnserss of playing and grinding on sros ers.

Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2007 4:55 am
by QuickSandSlowly
zelzin wrote:You don't need the IP address for the actual server.

I'll see what I can do...

Edit:

Open your host file with notepad. Located at "C:/WINDOWS/System32/drivers/etc/host".



Hopefully that will allow you to connect. Remember if this IP address ever changes again you'll have to edit the file again.

I've tried that several times it might work for some people, but most of the times it does not solve the problem.

Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2007 4:56 am
by knicksfan123
you need to lube up your mother board. That way your electrons will flow faster and your internet speeds will be greatly boosted resulting in the uber pwnserss of playing and grinding on sros ers.

Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2007 4:58 am
by zelzin
It's not meant to solve the problem. It's a temporary fix.

For it to be solved the ISP needs to correct the DNS bit.

@knicksfan123 - Thanks for the lame double post.

Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2007 4:59 am
by QuickSandSlowly
zelzin wrote:It's not meant to solve the problem. It's a temporary fix.

For it to be solved the ISP needs to correct the DNS bit.

It fixes nothing, sorry.

Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2007 5:00 am
by zelzin
Worked for me when I had DNS issues.

Sorry it doesn't do anything for you.

Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2007 5:02 am
by disconnected2007
if i am going to phone my ISP. what should i tell them ?? and tell them what to fix??

Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2007 5:04 am
by zelzin
Just tell them what you know.

You can connect to the site with the IP address but not the actual url.

DNS refresh please!

Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2007 5:10 am
by Juicy
when i try edit that hosts file i get "Cannot create the C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts file. Make sure the path and file name are correct."

Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2007 5:42 am
by MrH
If you ping http://www.silkroadonline.net what is the return IP address? Is it different from the one posted above?

If so then there is a DNS replication/cache issue within your ISP's DNS servers.

They could be possibly not clearing there dns caches often enough, or getting information from a bad server. I'm not sure, but entering the hostname into your hosts file will resolve the problem. Your PC by default checks the hosts file first before contacting your DNS server.

Re: Regarding July 20 "SERVER INSPECTION" incident

Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2007 5:44 am
by MrH
disconnected2007 wrote:Many poeple i believe are experiencing "server inspection" for at least 48 hours since july 20. At the beginning i thought its my network problem i called my internet provider they said they received some reports regarding people not being able to run the SRO client, more than that they cannot even browse sro website. Most of them are from USA/Canada, whats going to with joymax?? My internet provider test http://www.silkroadonline.net , they cannot access into it too. Did Joymax block all the N.America access??


I have another korean online game too, SAME problem with ISRO... whats the heck with Korean??


By the way, what is your ISP's name?

Can you please go to Start -> Run -> type CMD

Black box will open, type ipconfig/all and tell me the IP address of DHCP server so I can see whats going on?

Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2007 5:56 am
by sama98b
just use opendns not the one suplied by isp