[bf1942] Server time limited?

[Jon Wolberg]

Fixed it.

Get this:  If the server is NOT running on the main IP of the server, people 
will rarely be able to join.

Jon
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jon Wolberg" <jon at defenderhosting.com>
To: <bf1942 at icculus.org>
Sent: Friday, June 10, 2005 8:36 PM
Subject: Re: [bf1942] Server time limited?


>I am getting a 'Failed to join.  Please check your network connections and 
>try again' when attempting to join my own server when there are people in 
>there.
>
> Any ideas?  No firewall on the server or anything ( I shut it off earlier 
> when I thought I had it fixed ).
>
> jon
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "James Gurney" <james at globalmegacorp.org>
> To: <bf1942 at icculus.org>
> Sent: Friday, June 10, 2005 8:28 PM
> Subject: Re: [bf1942] Server time limited?
>
>
>> On 6/10/2005 5:20 PM, Steven Hartland wrote:
>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "James Gurney" 
>>> <james at globalmegacorp.org>
>>>
>>>> Damn. I was sure I had to be wrong about that. If the server really is 
>>>> time limited as well as the client, then that's freaking retarded.
>>>
>>>
>>> ROFL if that's the case it's classic totally classic!!!
>>
>> I'm not one for conspiracy theories, but presumably the official EA 
>> servers won't have this limitation.. and if not, this is another reason 
>> to drive players away from pub servers to the official ones (who wants to 
>> play on a server if you're going to get booted off at random?)
>>
>> Honestly, if this was a deliberate move, I can't really see any other 
>> sane reason for doing it. Craziness.
>>
>> James
>>
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