Seven days later...

[Salt Merchant]

Still no access.

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PING ginka.armageddon.org (69.37.244.86) 56(84) bytes of data.

--- ginka.armageddon.org ping statistics ---
8 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 6999ms


Same thing from home.

Oddly, I can get at http://www.armageddon.org/, still.

I've seen no new network announcements. What is going on?

[Barsook]

The IP address is always on the move.

[Nyr]

So, the latest word is that the network won't be back until Monday. I'm not sure how that's possible, but whatever. F*$k a whole lot of that. I'm picking up Ginka tonight, and together we're going to drive around until I find a wired Ethernet jack that nobody's watching too closely. Tonight she'll probably be staying on the couch in the Libertarian dystopia of Saikun's Fortified Compound (no hippies or feds allowed). Tomorrow, who knows... but the game will be up, somewhere. Cue a montage of us sharing a latte at a coffee shop, running along a beach at sunset, playing catch, having a soapy water fight while washing my truck, and finding that we've been slurping up the same string of spaghetti in the alley out behind the Italian restaurant.

What does this mean for you, Joe Player?

1. The game will be back up tonight, probably about 8PM-ish eastern US time.

2. And this is the point of the above drug-addled rambling: The IP address is going to be changing. Maybe a lot, maybe not so much. But it definitely won't be the one it currently has. So, make sure you're connecting to ginka.armageddon.org, or www.armageddon.org, or whatever, and not trying to connect directly to the IP, because that won't work anymore. I know DNS modifications aren't instant, so there may be some lag while your various ISPs play catch-up, but our DNS host is usually really quick, so things should propagate out speedily.

We should have a permanent home for the game in the next couple weeks.

-S

It's up, my lieblings. Go. Frolic. Enjoy the free usage of my precious electricity.

These are the last announcements about the network.  These are up to date, and the game is up and running at ginka.armageddon.org and has been for almost a week now.  You will need to use the name, not the IP address.

[Salt Merchant]

I saw those previous notices, thanks.

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[cy@gold CY093]$ ping ginka.armageddon.org
PING ginka.armageddon.org (69.37.244.86) 56(84) bytes of data.

--- ginka.armageddon.org ping statistics ---
4 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 3000ms

[cy@gold CY093]$ ping armageddon.org
PING armageddon.org (69.37.244.86) 56(84) bytes of data.

--- armageddon.org ping statistics ---
10 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 9000ms

[cy@gold CY093]$ ping www.armageddon.org
PING ginka.armageddon.org (69.37.244.86) 56(84) bytes of data.

--- ginka.armageddon.org ping statistics ---
11 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 10001ms



They all time out. It's the same from home, through a local ISP.

This isn't a sudden issue now. It simply hasn't worked since Jan 5th.

[Nyr]

It is working fine.  Many ISPs/routers/etc do not allow ICMP traffic.  I just tried pinging ginka.armageddon.org and it timed out as well.

[Salt Merchant]

Ok.