grassrootsportals problem

anteater · Post by **anteater** » Tue Aug 10, 2004 8:57 pm

for the past four days or so i have been trying to join grassrootsportals but i get and error message. sorry do not remember what it is at this time and i am at work so i am unable to see now. i have talked to red baron2 and he gets the same problem. i have tried to join under different names and set my team to automatic.

anteater

sorry if this is the wrong spot for this post. np if moved.

Post by **menotume** » Wed Aug 11, 2004 7:30 am

The same thing happened to me with Ducati once. Just all in a sudden. I did a traceroute, and it turned out that the route hit a dead-end at some point. Didn't make much sense to me ... the problem cleared up after 4-5 days and all was good again.

Give it a try and see. In Windoze, run this:
tracert bzflag.grassrootsportal.com

anteater · Post by **anteater** » Wed Aug 11, 2004 7:15 pm

ty meno i will try that.

Rebel Chik0rita · Post by **Rebel Chik0rita** » Sun Aug 22, 2004 6:47 am

i found out what the problem was . there was a broad IP range ban on a particular cheater , that also affected ant_eater because he had a similiar IP address as that person . the ban was made inadvertantly , and IMHO heedlessly , by another admin .
after i lifted the ban ant_eater was able to join the server again .
i never look forward to banning anyone (only when neccesary) and i'm esp. not a fan of broad range IP bans . for me , broad range bans are a last resort . there is always a possibility of unintentionally blocking innocent bystanders .
even Cosmos , the server host of valentino.hepcat , had the same problem of not being able to enter the grassroots server . once when i was playing on hepcat , he asked me for help . after he gave me his IP # i was able to look into the banlist and find out that he too fell victim to a broad range ban .

Cosmos assured me that he never did anything to warrant a ban and i believe him . from reviewing the notes on the reason for the ban , left on the banlist by the other admin , i could tell that the ban was not meant for Cosmos .
when i lifted the ban he was able to play on grassroots again .

i've played with Red Baron2 enough to know that he is an honorable and fair player . it's possible he is experiencing the same problem . if anyone feels that they are an innocent bystander of an IP ban ... please PM me a message explaining your situation along with your IP # and i can help look into the situation and possibly fix the problem .

thanx =)

*BZhugz*

anteater · Post by **anteater** » Mon Aug 23, 2004 3:18 pm

thanks rc for the help.

Rebel Chik0rita · Post by **Rebel Chik0rita** » Mon Aug 23, 2004 10:40 pm

The Red Baron · Post by **The Red Baron** » Mon Aug 23, 2004 11:58 pm

Thanks RC. it works. It block ant and our IP's because we are in the same region.

Rebel Chik0rita · Post by **Rebel Chik0rita** » Tue Aug 24, 2004 8:48 am

cool =)

it's always fun to play with good players like you guys ... looking forward to seeing you all there =)