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Re: No or bad challenge for your address

Postby TheDoctor » Wed Feb 06, 2013 2:53 pm

Biondo wrote:Could these lines in condump log mean something to understand the problem?
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Resolving update.smokin-guns.net
Sys_StringToSockaddr: Error resolving update.smokin-guns.net: No address
associated with hostname
Couldn't resolve address

No, I get the same message (because it still refers to smokin-guns.net instead of org).

I'll probably have to write a small script, testing UDP communications. Biondo, may I assume you have python installed? Which version?
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Re: No or bad challenge for your address

Postby Biondo » Wed Feb 06, 2013 3:24 pm

Python 2.6.6
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Re: No or bad challenge for your address

Postby Biondo » Wed Feb 06, 2013 3:34 pm

TheDoctor wrote:On Linux, try a
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ping 212.65.9.25
tracepath bb.smokin-guns.org


Here is the output of ping
PING 212.65.9.25 (212.65.9.25) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 212.65.9.25: icmp_req=1 ttl=247 time=93.5 ms
64 bytes from 212.65.9.25: icmp_req=2 ttl=247 time=75.0 ms
64 bytes from 212.65.9.25: icmp_req=3 ttl=247 time=64.0 ms
64 bytes from 212.65.9.25: icmp_req=4 ttl=247 time=63.9 ms
64 bytes from 212.65.9.25: icmp_req=5 ttl=247 time=64.0 ms
64 bytes from 212.65.9.25: icmp_req=6 ttl=247 time=63.9 ms
64 bytes from 212.65.9.25: icmp_req=7 ttl=247 time=74.0 ms
64 bytes from 212.65.9.25: icmp_req=8 ttl=247 time=63.9 ms
64 bytes from 212.65.9.25: icmp_req=9 ttl=247 time=74.8 ms
64 bytes from 212.65.9.25: icmp_req=10 ttl=247 time=64.3 ms
64 bytes from 212.65.9.25: icmp_req=11 ttl=247 time=63.8 ms
64 bytes from 212.65.9.25: icmp_req=12 ttl=247 time=63.6 ms
^C
--- 212.65.9.25 ping statistics ---
12 packets transmitted, 12 received, 0% packet loss, time 11015ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 63.625/69.106/93.555/8.664 ms

And here that of tracepath
1: host164-181-dynamic.244-95-r.retail.telecomitalia.it 0.094ms pmtu 1492
1: no reply
2: 172.17.81.161 61.987ms
3: 172.17.80.17 62.027ms
4: 172.17.9.233 70.116ms
5: 172-15-5-237.lightspeed.stlsmo.sbcglobal.net 71.932ms
6: pos1-10-0-0.milano26.mil.seabone.net 68.652ms asymm 7
7: xe-10-3-2.franco31.fra.seabone.net 100.490ms
8: xe-11-0-0.edge3.frankfurt.Level3.net 101.050ms asymm 7
9: MANET-GMBH.edge3.Frankfurt1.Level3.net 90.118ms asymm 8
10: 212.65.9.25 92.573ms asymm 9
11: no reply
12: 212.65.13.87 109.083ms asymm 11
13: no reply
14: no reply
15: no reply
16: no reply
17: no reply
18: no reply
19: no reply
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Re: No or bad challenge for your address

Postby TheDoctor » Wed Feb 06, 2013 8:46 pm

Biondo, does xqf show the players of the servers you cannot connect to?
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Re: No or bad challenge for your address

Postby jewel » Wed Feb 06, 2013 8:47 pm

We started having the same problem recently as well. In our case, I believe it's because authorize.smokin-guns.net no longer exists. (Notice the .net instead of the .org.)

See my other post viewtopic.php?f=27&t=3287 (which I may have put in the wrong section) for details.
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Re: No or bad challenge for your address

Postby Biondo » Wed Feb 06, 2013 8:51 pm

TheDoctor wrote:Biondo, does xqf show the players of the servers you cannot connect to?

Yes, it does.
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Re: No or bad challenge for your address

Postby Biondo » Wed Feb 06, 2013 8:59 pm

TheDoctor, looking at recent logs are you able to confirm that you've seen a decrease in Baller Bude connections (though, I have to repeat that is not a problem limited to Baller Bude)? Paladin is experiencing a new life :)
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Re: No or bad challenge for your address

Postby sunrise » Wed Feb 06, 2013 9:52 pm

you could try to edit your hosts file (make a backup before!) and add those two lines:
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127.0.0.1       authorize.quake3arena.com
127.0.0.1       update.quake3arena.com

http://vogonhq.com/viewtopic.php?t=1313&f=23
But i must warn you, i don't know what this code exactly does.
You have to try it on your own risk.
Maybe you need other adresses, but i think it's worth a try.
I can't reconstruct the problem, so i have no idea if it works.
If it doesn't work , could you (biondo and mope) please make a list of all servers, where you can't connect (try lan too).
Apparently there are the same problems, which confuses me even more.
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Re: No or bad challenge for your address

Postby Biondo » Wed Feb 06, 2013 10:21 pm

sunrise wrote:could you (biondo and mope) please make a list of all servers, where you can't connect (try lan too)


I don't feel comfortable editing my hosts file, ATM. It can't be a solution for all, anyway.

This is the (supposedly partial) list of servers I can see in XQF at the moment.
Baller Bude NO
Circus Novus NO
altFIRE YES
JueuxLinux YES
Paladin YES
smokin-guns.org YES

Mope said he couldn't connect to ANY server.
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Re: No or bad challenge for your address

Postby Biondo » Wed Feb 06, 2013 10:25 pm

Latest news: also SAPE has the same problem. No Baller, no Circus.
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Re: No or bad challenge for your address

Postby *lame* jesse james » Wed Feb 06, 2013 10:54 pm

Ok I can't connect in BB but I can play in CN. Logic? Hope problem is solved soon.
I can also play in Palladin and Jeuxlinux.
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Re: No or bad challenge for your address

Postby Biondo » Wed Feb 06, 2013 11:04 pm

I have to inform you that more players are banned as time is going on. They are to shy to post here, and I don't want to reveal their names, but they are all well known players. Recently the message changed from "No or bad challenge ..." to " You are banned ...".

We'll meet all in Paladin.

Do you remember Master-server crisis? We needed months to get players back in SG.

I just want to stress that the majority of player will never write here. But I meet them in chats and sites.
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Re: No or bad challenge for your address

Postby TheDoctor » Wed Feb 06, 2013 11:05 pm

I've changed both game and server on BB to get rid of the authorize code. Does it work now?
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Re: No or bad challenge for your address

Postby Biondo » Wed Feb 06, 2013 11:06 pm

TheDoctor wrote:I've changed both game and server on BB to get rid of the authorize code. Does it work now?


Sorry. No, it doesn't.
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Re: No or bad challenge for your address

Postby Barto » Wed Feb 06, 2013 11:11 pm

@Biondo:
I don't think that condump is related to the issue you have. I have really now clue apart a bug in the code or some ISP changes.

@TheDoctor:
I have talked few minutes with Biondo and he told me to try to connect on your server (212.65.13.87:27960) and I was surprised - not because I got a challenge error - but a "You are banned from this server" message. Biondo added that Jesse James is also banned and - well - since I think I have your banlist, I am pretty sure my IP is not into it (81.62.213.136 for the curious). I start to worry about who could connect on your server, since Biondo, Jesse James, Mope, me and probably many other players couldn't. One more reason to worry is that your server is the reference in DM or simply server administration. I totally understand how much Biondo is worried and I start to worry myself too since a community couldn't grow with such issue for the 1st day head-hunter.
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