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sorry, no clue how to handle that with an external router coz i never had one. hopefully someone knows how and drops a hint for you here.

yep.. it works for me in the described way.

in my firewall (guarddog / linux) i'd created 2 userdefined protocols. TCP port 5154 - 5156 UDP port 5154 - 5156 (bidirectional) i guess the ports will be different on some servers. so perhaps you need to open a wider range or simply other ports. until yesterday i used UDP ports 17200-17220, but tho...

another DNS server didn't solve it too, but as soon as i opened the icq port 4000 in my firewall i was able to play bzflag again. since the server says port 5154 is guess the problem is the udp port. so doesn't use bzflag the udp ports 17200 - 17220 no more or have this changed? i think it would be ...

thanx for all the answers - i get the error which is the topic.. "Error connecting to server" - sure, i'm not trying to connect when i'm offline ;) - serverlist cache is fresh, have deleted the old to make sure and got the new one. problem still the same. - the servers i'm trying are onlin...

thanx for the hint. i tried so, but sadly it didn't change anything.

heya

since a few days i suddenly can't connect no more to any servers. i even tried without my reg'd nick/pw and i cleaned the caches, but nothing changed. i'm using 2.0.4, but this version worked for me before the problem suddenly came up.

any hints what to check too, please?


greetz,
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it seems it has nothing to do with the players own client. today at ~16:05 (4:05pm) my client suddenly crashed again while playing on bzflag0.gamesunited .. i relogged in here and asked who has joined in the last minute. i got 2 responses and one of that was a bit "funny". The player "...

i'm having such problems too. i usually play only on bzflag0.GU and in the last days (since 25 Aug) i have suddenly a complete lockup, freeze, hangup or simple crash for some unknown reason. i noticed it isn't time related nor how long i'm playing. i haven't changed anything on my system or on the b...