Another question I'd like to add onto these is whether she's afk or not, and I'm not making a reference to the rom feature that boots you from the mud if afk for however long (most places disable this for imms anyway), but I'm wondering if she's physically away from her keyboard for any period of time, or whether she's just not using the internet for anything for a period of time, as some ISP's will close the port that you're connected to them through if you don't log some activity every once in a while, to free it up for people that are active... this is the case w/ most places when you go to sleep at night, since you're not causing any activity, they'll shut your port connection off and give it to someone else that is, and then when you wake up and go check your email, it'll take a few seconds longer than normal while it re-establishes that connection, and from there any further accesses should seem fairly instantaneous... I'm curious if maybe she's away from the keyboard for a while, goes auto-AFK, the mud ceases to send her output, her ISP sees no activity, shuts down her port, and the mud reads no data from her, assuming that she disconnected, and closes her port to the game... just a thought... I have, however, had similar occurrences on my own game while connected from work... and it doesn't involve a lack of internet activity or a lack of game activity, as I can login, flip over to my server window, flip back after a minute or 2, and it will appear hung... sometimes if I'm patient enough, I'll see it spam all of the past activity all at once (after hitting enter or something and waiting a minute or so), and that's only if I'm in time I suppose... otherwise, it usually just cuts the link, and this is only within a time span of a few minutes... at home, I can stay afk all night long w/ no loss of connection, so I'm assuming the problem is something on her end and not your mud... the only difference between my work and home connections are the class of internet package, at work we use time warner roadrunner business class, and at home I use roadrunner, but that should only be a difference of bandwidth throttling, so in conclusion, I really have no answer :D
Richard Lindsey Network Administrator Intera, Inc. 9111-A Research Blvd. Austin, TX 78758 (512) 425-2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: Tom Whiting [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2005 5:40 PM To: ROM Subject: Re: odd disconnections (maybe off-topic) Stupid question, but hey :P Dialup or DHCP/cable/insertnetworkhere ? Does she lose connection anywhere else? ie: is it just YOUR game that she's doing this at, or can she connect to other sites on the internet when she can't? What firewall is she using? Take a look through the logs there, sometimes simply stopping the firewall doesn't cut it (I've run into this a few times with kaspersky) Does the router log anything around the specific time she's losing connection? Is it just your mud? ie: can she connect to other MUDS where this happens. Try setting up a stock rom mud somewhere just to see if this happens to her there as well as on your mud. If it doesn't, well, then you know it's something with the game itself. If it DOES then you know it's either a firewall/network/router issue. Monkeys are probably giving her ISP too much credit, most don't actually have a clue what they're doing on any end. I've found this out many times by contacting many ISP's, including my own, and having to explain the very simplistic basics of how the internet works (something as simple as adding RDNS and DNS entries even, believe it or not :P). On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 17:15:02 -0600, Mike Barton wrote: > Hey list, > > One of my imms has been having a problem with being disconnected > from the MUD, and I was wondering if anyone else has experienced > this or may know more about it than I do. > > Basically, her connection to the game is terminated every hour, on > the hour. This only seems to occur when she's been connected for > more than 30 minutes or so. We also tried it running a copy of the > MUD on a completely different machine on a different network, and > the same problem occurs. > > She's tried several clients and stuff, and we've tried disabling > her software firewall and bypassing her home router and just about > everything else I can think of, all to no avail. > > Running tcpdump, I see that the server receives an RSET packet from > her connection. She says that her side simply freezes up and > eventually times out. > > After spending some time dealing with her ISP, we suspect it may be > staffed entirely by monkeys. > > If anyone has any thoughts on what might be causing this, I'd be > appreciative. > > --Palrich. -- ROM mailing list [email protected] http://www.rom.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rom
