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could not connect to server

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Hi, I have a mac intel computer with the most recent version of armagetron advanced dedicated. I have my settings set, and my firewall off, and talk to master on 1.
When I start it up it boots fine. I can use the Admin: say feature, and I can change settings from terminal as normal.
The problem is, when I try to connect from the server list, It says the server hasn't responded to my query, even though it shows up on the server browser, and answers my ping query.
Am I missing a step? Is there something I need to do?
I dont think Its a speed problem.
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That's odd. With 'ping', you mean the ping in our server browser? So you see your server with the correct name in the browser? Fundamentally, it uses the same network channel as a 'real' connection. Does the server show anything when you try to connect? Can you connect via the LAN browser?

Also, state your IP and your server name, then we can check the master server logs and see whether your port forwarding is set up correctly.
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Re: could not connect to server

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maybe you changed port or other similar settings?
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Re: could not connect to server

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Z-Man wrote:That's odd. With 'ping', you mean the ping in our server browser? So you see your server with the correct name in the browser? Fundamentally, it uses the same network channel as a 'real' connection. Does the server show anything when you try to connect? Can you connect via the LAN browser?

Also, state your IP and your server name, then we can check the master server logs and see whether your port forwarding is set up correctly.
With ping I mean when I connect to It from my own computer or another computer on my local area network.
What I mean, Is that I actually get ping from it, and it doesnt show my ip as unreachable, and It has changed from 8 to 10 to 11 at times.

My ip is 69.237.146.48

SERVER_NAME -. 0xffff..GRAND0xffffff ICE and0xff…. TACO 0xffffffserver
Or Grand Ice andaco server as it displays in the list.

Works when I have talk to master on 0 and connect by lan.

Connecting to Grand ice andaco server
Login Information sent. waiting for reply...
Logging out..
Done!
Killing user 0, Ping1.25
Login information sent..Waiting for reply..
Login Failed...timeout
Logging out.
Done!

Then i get the server does not answer window

as for the server side, I get this when I start up

[0] User Ice will be known as Iced@forums.
[0] Command ACCESS_LEVEL_VOTE_REMOVE unknown.
[0]
[0] Bound socket to *.*.*.*:61183.
[0] sn_SetNetState: Unable to open accept socket on desired port 4501, Trying next ports...
[0] Bound socket to *.*.*.*:4503.
[0] Setting CYCLE_BRAKE_DEPLETE (Group: Annoying) deviates from its default value; clients older than 0.2.5.0 may experience problems.
[0] Connecting to Master Server 1...
[0] Killing user 0, ping 1.25.
[0] Login information sent. Waiting for reply...
[0] Got address 69.237.146.48:4503.
[0] Login Succeeded. User Nr. 2
[0] Syncing with server...
[0] Relabeling NetObjects...
[0] Syncing again...
[0] Done!
[0] Sending my server info...
[0] Logging out...
[0] Done!
[0] Killing user 0, ping 0.271074.
[0] Closing socket bound to *.*.*.*:4503
[0] Bound socket to *.*.*.*:4503.
[0] Connecting to Master Server 2...
[0] Killing user 0, ping 1.25.
[0] Login information sent. Waiting for reply...
[0] Login Succeeded. User Nr. 1
[0] Syncing with server...
[0] Relabeling NetObjects...
[0] Syncing again...
[0] Done!
[0] Sending my server info...
[33] Killing user 33, ping 1.25.
[0] Logging out...
[0] Done!
[0] Killing user 0, ping 0.254743.
[0] Closing socket bound to *.*.*.*:4503
[0] Bound socket to *.*.*.*:4503.
[0] Connecting to Master Server 3...
[0] Killing user 0, ping 1.25.
[0] Login information sent. Waiting for reply...
[0] Login Succeeded. User Nr. 1
[0] Syncing with server...
[0] Relabeling NetObjects...
[0] Syncing again...
[0] Done!
[0] Sending my server info...
[33] Killing user 33, ping 1.25.
[0] Logging out...
[0] Done!
[0] Killing user 0, ping 0.232487.
[0] Closing socket bound to *.*.*.*:4503
[0] Bound socket to *.*.*.*:4503.
[0] Connecting to Master Server 4...
[0] Killing user 0, ping 1.25.
[0] Login information sent. Waiting for reply...
[0] Login failed: Timeout.
[33] Killing user 33, ping 1.25.
[0] Logging out...
[0] Done!
[0] Killing user 0, ping 1.25.
[0] Closing socket bound to *.*.*.*:4503
[0] Bound socket to *.*.*.*:4503.
[0] Ping charity changed from 0 to 500.
[0] Nobody there. Taking a nap...
[0] Timestamp: 2010/09/16 17:00:
[0] Closing socket bound to *.*.*.*:4503
[0] Bound socket to *.*.*.*:4503.
[33]

And strangely enough, when I try to connect, I get this, even though both are the same newest release versions:

Got unknown nMessage with descriptor id 12

YOU SHOULD PROBABLY UPGRADE ARMAGETRON ADVANCED!!!!
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Re: could not connect to server

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port looks wrong to me
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OK, other players aparently can connect to it but i cannot

I have tried trust_lan on 0 and 1

is there anything I can do to connect to my own server?
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The master server logs show your server as reachable. It's bouncing on and off a couple of times, but stays reachable for long stretches of time; I assume the outages are just you experimenting. In fact, there are currently two copies on the list, you probably forgot to shut one server instance down.

Your ports fluctuate and are outside of the range usually polled in the LAN browser. You *should* be able to connect to your server over the LAN browser if you just readjust SERVER_PORT to 4534, or if you can't do that for some reason, if you reduce "Minimum Port" in the Network Setup of your client to 4500. That you can't connect over the regular browser and still ping is odd, but routers act weird at times and we just have to accept it.

The UPGRADE message comes from experimental clients polling your server, you can safely ignore it.
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THANKS
I can connect through LAN again and authenticate as normal.
I still cant get in by server but thats ok since I can just join everyone through lan right,
When I host a server it doesnt have a seperate lan server than an internet server right?

Also, I got that message right when I joined.
But I have the release posted on the website, and so Is the server I downloaded.
Is it that someone just seems to browse with a higher version right when I connect.
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Iced wrote:When I host a server it doesnt have a seperate lan server than an internet server right?
If you're really just host one server (you had two last time I checked), it doesn't matter whether you join from LAN or the internet, it'll be the same game session. So yes, right.
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Re: could not connect to server

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weird, i checked my activity monitor, only one copy of armagetron advanced dedicated was running.
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I was able to connect to his server just fine from an outside computer. Did u try and connect to it from the LAN game menu
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What abou trying a custom connect with your computers private ip address
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