Recent zone loading freezes, crashes, & failure to connect to server

[Hunky]

I tried, got the text file and inside was just 'Unable to resolve target system name login.eqemulator.org.' [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

edit: Tried same thing with google.com and it worked.

[hamirez]

I am crashing as well. 80% of times I zone. Sometime blackscreen others the game freezes. Reve to reestart my computer because I was playing on fullscreen. Now I just play windowed to ctrl+alt+del the game when needed.

[thedonkdonk]

Originally Posted by Hunky [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

'Unable to resolve target system name login.eqemulator.org.'

It's login.eqemulator.net

[Hunky]

Thanks. With that now fixed I did two tests, having to stop them as they were timing out:

5 61 ms 59 ms 57 ms rc3fs-hge0-15-0-0.mt.shawcable.net [66.163.73.177]
6 68 ms 72 ms 74 ms rc1hu-pos0-1-0-0.ny.shawcable.net [66.163.76.14]
7 * 75 ms 91 ms nyiix.gi3-6.cr1.nyc1.choopa.net [198.32.160.157]
8 78 ms 68 ms 68 ms vl23-br2.pnj1.choopa.net [66.55.130.53]
9 86 ms 75 ms 74 ms vl20-br1.pnj1.choopa.net [108.61.244.41]
10 76 ms 78 ms 74 ms ethernet1-2-1-c8-12-b2-1.pnj1.choopa.net [108.61.244.50]
11 * * * Request timed out.
12 * * * Request timed out.
13 * * * Request timed out.
14 * * * Request timed out.
15 * * * Request timed out.
16 * * * Request timed out.
17 * * * Request timed out.
18 * * * Request timed out.
19 * * * Request timed out.
20 * * * Request timed out.
21 * * * Request timed out.
22 * * * Request timed out.
23 * * * Request timed out.
24 * * * Request timed out.
25 * * * Request timed out.
26 * * * Request timed out.
27 * * * Request timed out.
28 * * * Request timed out.
29 * * * Request timed out.
30 * *

And:

7 78 ms 75 ms 76 ms nyiix.gi3-6.cr1.nyc1.choopa.net [198.32.160.157]
8 71 ms 69 ms 70 ms vl23-br2.pnj1.choopa.net [66.55.130.53]
9 72 ms 70 ms 69 ms ethernet1-2-2-c8-12-b2-1.pnj1.choopa.net [108.61.80.218]
10 * 82 ms 71 ms ethernet1-2-1-c8-12-b2-1.pnj1.choopa.net [108.61.244.50]
11 * * * Request timed out.
12 * * * Request timed out.
13 * * * Request timed out.
14 * * * Request timed out.
15 * * * Request timed out.
16 * * * Request timed out.
17 * * * Request timed out.
18 * * * Request timed out.
19 * *

[thedonkdonk]

MTR to port 9000 (same port the game runs on) on login.eqemulator.net. Via a Raspberry Pi on the same network as my Windows 7 PC I game on. Same public IP as this post. On Google Fiber in Kansas City.

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You can see the packet loss happens once we hit choopa.net. The hosting provider. 2.7% packet loss is normal enough on a traceroute for an edge router. It can be busy enough that it will drop these kind of diagnostic packets but still do regular traffic just fine.

The 54.5% packet loss on the last hop is at least a symptom of what ever issue.

It's not an AT&T issue or a Google Fiber issue.

Here is one from a colocation datacenter I use in Kansas City. It uses Hurricane Electric. Same packet losses.

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Another from a Chicago Rackspace Cloud Server. It uses Comcast.

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[greena03]

Whole lot of kansas city people playing that old ass EQ in here.

[TacoSmasher]

East coast canada here. just got Bell Fiber op installed today and been having this issue. Didnt have the problem at the other place before i moved, same ISP.

Seems like something changed on the server side recently. There have been multiple server reboots over the last few days correct?

[Fleetwood]

As of the last couple days I've been having the same problems.
Crashing on zone, Crashing on /camp, freeze on login, and sometimes very delayed spell casts and mouse clicking issues.

Nothing on my end has changed and I don't stream/download stuff while I'm playing so I'm assuming this is server side.

East coast Canada here as well with a good connection.

[Grimjaw]

looks like its failing after that specific Choopa hop for everyone however u'll need to go thru ur ISP for resolution

[feanan]

Tech support, may I help you?

Umm, yes, hi, I play this 17 year old emulated game called everquest, and 40% of the time I can't log in, it appears that its the Choopa hop, can you help me?

I can imagine the laughter from here...