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Anonymous - Sun Oct 23, 2005 11:23 am
Post subject: Can someone give me a hand (noob)

small problem, my zone is not listed in the zone list when i click download, and subgame.exe connects to billing whatsit and after a while it says it 'timed out', i don't know whether it's todo with my ini's so i'll attach them to this post and you can have a look. And i will say please to be friendly

Maverick - Sun Oct 23, 2005 11:32 am
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My first guess is (without looking at the files) that a firewall is blocking the server from sending its name to the directory server.

Anonymous - Sun Oct 23, 2005 11:36 am
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My firewall has been set to grant access.

Purge - Sun Oct 23, 2005 11:41 am
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In server.ini, make the [Directory]Port=4991, [Billing]IP=localhost, [Misc]ServerIP=yourIP, and make sure you've forwarded port 2000 if you're on a router.

Anonymous - Sun Oct 23, 2005 11:48 am
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My zone is now in my list but does not connect, and after a while subgame.exe says Connection to billing server timed out.

Donkano - Sun Oct 23, 2005 1:43 pm
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Purge+ wrote:

and make sure you've forwarded port 2000 if you're on a router.

That also applies to firewalls as well.

newb - Sun Oct 23, 2005 1:49 pm
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Did you not read the reply above, Donkano?
Stop trying to correct other people´s posts.

Donkano - Sun Oct 23, 2005 2:02 pm
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Stew2000 wrote:

does not connect

Connection to billing server timed out.

Newb, he said that it doesn't connect. Seems like you didn't read it so well.

Stew2000 - Sun Oct 23, 2005 2:06 pm
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I don't think it is my firewall.

Contempt+ - Sun Oct 23, 2005 2:31 pm
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Stew, did you also forward port 185 for your biller?

Stew2000 - Sun Oct 23, 2005 2:42 pm
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yes

Contempt+ - Sun Oct 23, 2005 2:52 pm
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I assume that you've changed your .ini'since your first post, can you please attach them again?

Stew2000 - Sun Oct 23, 2005 3:00 pm
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Sure here they are:

Default - Sun Oct 23, 2005 3:08 pm
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In server.ini

[Directory]
IP=172.203.177.62,sscentral.ds98.com,sscentral.subspace.inet.fi,sscentral.subspace.net,sscentral.subspacehq.com

Need to change to :

[Directory]
IP=69.56.172.170,sscentral.ds98.com,sscentral.subspace.inet.fi,sscentral.subspace.net,sscentral.subspacehq.com

Donkano - Sun Oct 23, 2005 3:11 pm
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Why do you have your server's ip in the directory listing? I HIGHLY doubt your server is a directory listing as well.

Stew2000 - Sun Oct 23, 2005 3:17 pm
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didn't make any difference 'Default', I think i'll poke my brother with a stick next time i see him seen he is "owner" of the router and ISP, he might know whats going wrong. for all we know i just might of typed something wrong somewhere?.

Default - Sun Oct 23, 2005 4:14 pm
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Ok, trying to help.

Solo Ace - Sun Oct 23, 2005 6:10 pm
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He owns the ISP? Cool.

Having a bunch of wrong IP addresses in your directory server list isn't such a problem, although the network behind it might start to whine.

Anyway...
Since when is port forwarding required for a biller connection staying on the network? It stays on the "local loopback" (127.0.0.1). Guess why it's named "local", it won't go on the network.
You don't need the forward for your biller (port 185).
Do your homework, Contempt.

Your current setup should work, Stew2000.
Are you sure you restarted both programs?

Also, are you sure the firewall isn't messing with your local loopback? It should actually let subgame connect to subbill.

Try turning your firewall off for a few, and then see if that does anything.

Otherwise, I'm not sure if subgame attempts to resolve the "localhost" string to an IP address, but your computer's static hostname "localhost" to 127.0.0.1 might be gone (which is really doubtful).
To see if this happened, the easiest way, I think, is Start -> Run, then type ping -t localhost and see if it's trying to ping 127.0.0.1.

If the ping even times out your firewall is probably messing with your local loopback. And in that case I'd like to know what kind of firewall you're running.

Cyan~Fire - Sun Oct 23, 2005 8:48 pm
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Have you tried INICheck?

Stew2000 - Mon Oct 24, 2005 6:24 am
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Solo Ace wrote:

He owns the ISP? Cool.

I mean't to say, He pays for the ISP, I have FREE internet

This is strange, subbill runs, subgame runs, the zone is in the zone list, my sister can see my zone from her PC, my ping is "pinging", and yet the game does not connect to my server, puzzling

Contempt+ - Mon Oct 24, 2005 6:48 am
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Hmm. This kind of sounds like the problem that I'm having, except on the intranet for you, Stew.

What does subbill and subgame say when you try to connect? Also, you might try changing the port, scoreid, and serverid for the zone.

Stew2000 - Mon Oct 24, 2005 7:45 am
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Connect as in, me connecting to my server through Continuum,
other wise, subbil clocks up and subgame connects to subbill and times out after a while, ill post a pic.

Default - Mon Oct 24, 2005 8:34 am
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Well I dont know what you are doing wrong.

Cyan~Fire - Mon Oct 24, 2005 10:55 am
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Try SSB2. Subbill isn't very reliable.

(When are you going to start including it in the server.zip, MGB?)

Solo Ace - Tue Oct 25, 2005 12:26 am
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I think you should start all over again with your configs, then make sure you only make necessary changes when trying to get it to work.