unban me from master server

[Jonathan]

I feel like bookmarking this as an example of how not to solve a problem (which will most likely go away by itself in a little while).

[wrtlprnft]

In case this is not obvious by now: No, you're not banned from my master, I don't even know your IP.
But my server must have hung up sometime this night, it's running again now.

[Z-Man]

There is no such thing as a master server ban. The master servers don't even read a banlist. If you search the forums, you'll find that at least me and Lucifer were against centralized bans. The problem you're experiencing probably really is a DNS error out of our control; I don't know how where our DNS server for armagetronad.net is located, but it's the same one that gets you to this forum, so it sounds strange that you can post here but not reach the masters.

To work around a possible problem with this DNS server, simply edit your master.cfg file and replace master1.armagetronad.net with armagetron.kicks-ass.net, master2.armagetronad.net with
wiki.davefancella.com, master3.armagetronad.net with wrtlprnft.ath.cx and master4.armagetronad.net with armagetron.de. That circumvents the central DNS server.

Note: This is my single attempt of a friendly message here. If you continue to abuse our team for no good reason at all, expect no help. Also expect no gratification from angry responses by me, I'll just go away. If you get down from your trip, we'll try to solve your problem.

[Tank Program]

As z-man says we'd be glad to help sort out your problem in most cases, but that requires communication. That's a two way deal you know.

[Swampy]

why feed into this?

[pavelo]

at least me and Lucifer were against centralized bans.

maybe you should rethink that

[Z-Man]

at least me and Lucifer were against centralized bans.

maybe you should rethink that

Not me. It would make matters worse in every respect. It would make it harder to convince people with network problems that they have, in fact, not been banned. Then we'd have the complaints of the people who really got banned here (unless the ban is automatically extended to the forum), plus angry "please ban XYZ" discussions. Se the various "i got kicked from server ABC, but I don't want to play there anyway, the admin is an idiot, watch me not care" threads that pop up every once in a while if you want to know how much fun that will be.

Edit: To all who are not hyphyleo: please don't add fuel to the fire by teasing him. We're still trying to solve his technical problem here, and we need his cooperation for that. Give him a chance to calm down.

[pavelo]

Not me. It would make matters worse in every respect. It would make it harder to convince people with network problems that they have, in fact, not been banned. Then we'd have the complaints of the people who really got banned here (unless the ban is automatically extended to the forum), plus angry "please ban XYZ" discussions. Se the various "i got kicked from server ABC, but I don't want to play there anyway, the admin is an idiot, watch me not care" threads that pop up every once in a while if you want to know how much fun that will be.

i understand what you mean. i was only half-serious when i said that (hence the ":)"). but some people (kids ?) obviously cant control themselves, and really shouldn't be let anywhere near a computer. i mean if he approached the wrong person with that attitude in RL, he would end up in a hospital.
but i guess that's a part of internet and we cant do much about it.

Edit: i didnt see the z-man's edit.
if you think this constitutes teasing, then do delete it.

[hyphyleo]

worked on my laptop by this morning for no reason. the other pc on network still doesn't work, i tried ur config fix and it isn't working
after the name of the server i change theres a Box then it says "port" should i change this
can you send me or upload your master cfg file somewhre please

[Z-Man]

If the suggested name change didn't work (have you tried repeatedly? We have four master servers and they are chosen randomly, if one of them does not work for some reason, others may.), then chances are high it's either a general network problem or an armagetron specific firewall problem. Double check your firewalls, all of them: the personal firewall on the PC (the prime suspect) and the firewall on your router. None of them must block anything on UDP ports 4533 to 4540. The personal firewall must have armagetronad.exe on the list of programs that are allowed to open network connections.

The port needs to be left unchanged in master.srv.

Just in case it's really exactly the master servers you can't reach, I attached the current server list. Let the included frommaster.srv file overwrite the one in your user configuration (C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\.armagetron(ad)\var\ if I'm not terribly mistaken). Test if you can see anything on the master server browser, are there any reachable servers on it?

[DDMJ]

Hmm, I was just glancing at this topic and I replaced master1.armagetronad.net and all of them with the ones you said (I didn't have a master.cfg file mine was called master.srv). It seems like I can connect to the master server list 10 times fast (<--exaggerationg, but still much faster). Is this because master1.armagetronad.net (& the other 4) just redirect to those sites?

[Z-Man]

yep. But the original config is safer; it will adapt to masters getting moved from one server to the other.

[Lucifer]

I'm glad to see most people voting for the grammatically correct "YES" option. But don't let that influence your vote.

[hyphyleo]

k i changed that file
when i did it i tried going to custom connect to see if i could find any servers to connect to but they're just blank, the file didn't add them to the list.
dns errors ftw lwl

[hyphyleo]

wow it just started working..