Arm down?

Started by brianhartman, May 25, 2005, 07:37:31 PM

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May 25, 2005, 07:37:31 PM
Has anyone else noticed that they cannot connect to arm?  or is it just me?
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May 25, 2005, 07:39:16 PM #1
It happens. Just got to be patient. It's on now, so don't panic.  :lol:
Here is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen.  -   Sean O'Faolain
May 25, 2005, 07:42:29 PM #2
Quote from: "brianhartman"Has anyone else noticed that they cannot connect to arm?  or is it just me?

You should find something else to do while the mud is down. Just because you can not connect to the world doesn't mean the real world is about to end.

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May 25, 2005, 07:43:36 PM #3
Blasphemy!
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May 25, 2005, 07:46:48 PM #4
It's a big deal, because I haven't played in quite a while on an important char(real life).  The one time I try to get on, it crashes while I am walking.
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May 25, 2005, 07:48:00 PM #5
I get this error message:

#ses ses11 ginka.armageddon.org 4050
#Trying to connect..
WinSock error 10022: Invalid argument
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May 25, 2005, 07:50:15 PM #6
/me impales Yokunama on a friendly bone spike ^_^
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May 25, 2005, 10:07:07 PM #7
Quote from: "brianhartman"I get this error message:

#ses ses11 ginka.armageddon.org 4050
#Trying to connect..
WinSock error 10022: Invalid argument

I had a problem that looked alot like that. Tried to connect to any other muds, or is it only Armageddon you can't get to?

Have you run adaware, Virus Scan, or anything like that? I had trouble with Zmud once and it turns out that Adaware had wiped one of Zmud's required files, WSARV, I think it was. Hopefully you didn't delete your quarantined files, if this is your problem. If you did, and this is what's wrong, you may be in trouble. I reinstalled zmud a half-dozen times and exhausted Zugg's tech support, all to no avail. I eventually had to wipe my HD and format, because of the outrageous virus and popup problems I was having, after that Zmud worked fine, so...

Hope it helps.

-WP
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May 25, 2005, 10:35:04 PM #8
The website and the GDB used to give the status of the mud, saying it was not running when it crashed.  Now the best you can do is refresh the main index of the site every so often to see the timer reset.

Could we get the nifty status thing back, pretty please?
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May 25, 2005, 10:37:15 PM #9
I think the status thing was making the GDB load slower than snails whenever the game would go down.
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May 25, 2005, 10:53:56 PM #10
Quote from: "JollyGreenGiant"I think the status thing was making the GDB load slower than snails whenever the game would go down.
Actually, I think the GDB was completely inaccessible when the mud went down.

I've noticed lately that when the game crashes, the main page doesn't say as much, however the timer does freeze. So if the timer's stopped changing, it's down.
May 26, 2005, 12:43:51 AM #11
The timer on the main index keeps going until the mud comes back up, then it resets and starts all over again.
Quote from: AnaelYou know what I love about the word panic?  In Czech, it's the word for "male virgin".
May 26, 2005, 03:18:12 AM #12
Quote from: "John"
Quote from: "JollyGreenGiant"I think the status thing was making the GDB load slower than snails whenever the game would go down.
Actually, I think the GDB was completely inaccessible when the mud went down.

Not complety no, just on the order of a few minutes before the script querying the mud status times out.  This was on each page load.  I think they did the right thing by removing the script until they had the time/inclination to tweak it to avoid that problem.
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May 26, 2005, 03:36:49 AM #13
Why don't they just put in a php tag to check if port 4050 is up or down and then echo back 'down' or 'up'

Here's how to do it.

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<?php

$domain = "ginka.armageddon.org";

function lookup&#40;$hport,$Something,$who&#41;&#123;

error_reporting&#40;0&#41;;
            
$fp = fsockopen&#40;$who, $hport, &$errno, &$errstr, 10&#41;;

            if &#40;!$fp&#41;&#123;
                $data = "<strong><font color=\"FF0000\">Armageddon MUD is Down</font></strong>";

            &#125; 
else &#123;
$data = "<strong><font color=\"#00CCFF\">Armageddon MUD is Running</font> </strong>";

                fclose&#40;$fp&#41;;
            &#125;
            return $data;
        &#125;
                
?>


Put that in the top of your page or before the actual include.

Wherever on the page you want this to be displayed, put this.

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<?php echo lookup&#40;"4050","Mud Server","$domain"&#41;?>


I'll mail it to mud and see what they think.
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May 26, 2005, 12:52:54 PM #14
There sure do seem to be a lot of crashes this week with the AIM going on.

Having to redrop stuff in a room three or four times a day sucks.   :cry:
May 26, 2005, 12:58:01 PM #15
Quote from: "Crashed Kank"There sure do seem to be a lot of crashes this week with the AIM going on.

Having to redrop stuff in a room three or four times a day sucks.   :cry:


yeah.. on my third crash today :(    in the middle of something important.. in a place I can't leave on my own :)    


But I'm not an addict.. I can stop ANY time I want  reall

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May 26, 2005, 01:30:24 PM #16
All 3 of today's crashes were for the same reason, which has now been fixed.
"I agree with Halaster"  -- Riev
May 26, 2005, 02:25:01 PM #17
Yay!  *happydance*

See, Halaster kills bugs too.  Kind of like Raid.
Quote from: AnaelYou know what I love about the word panic?  In Czech, it's the word for "male virgin".
May 26, 2005, 03:28:48 PM #18
Yeah... I noticed that some of them weren't even crashes, it was like Arm lost it's connection to the internet, but came back, so everyone just reconnected to where we were, it happened three times last night all around 2-3 a.m. CST.
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May 28, 2005, 09:35:40 PM #19
Quote from: "cyberpatrol_735"Why don't they just put in a php tag to check if port 4050 is up or down and then echo back 'down' or 'up'

We don't do this for the following reasons:

a) When you connect to the zalanthas.org website, having to wait 30 seconds for a socket connection to timeout because ginka is unreachable is no fun.  We used to have a CGI (non-PHP, mind) which did this but I believe it has been removed for this very reason.

b) You can check whether the mud is up for yourself simply by connecting.  Not everyone on the GDB is necessarily interested in whether the mud is up at that exact moment.

c) You can get even MORE info about the mud's uptime by simply going to http://www.armageddon.org/ and looking at the bottom of that page.

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