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Server Outage - Thursday Dec. 15 12PM EST

                    
Tuesday December 13, 2011 11:14

                    

                        Posted By DM_Sultan in NS4 News and Announcements
                    

                    

                        The server will be offline Thursday Dec. 15 at 12PM EST.  We are rolling the connection to a more robust circuit.  The outage could last mere minutes or as long as an hour.  In case the roll doesn't work, it will all be put back the way it is now.





Sultan                    

                    

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Server Outage - Thursday Nov 10

                    
Thursday November 10, 2011 07:53

                    

                        Posted By DM_Sultan in NS4 News and Announcements
                    

                    

                        The NS4 Server will be taken down at 10AM EST for maintenance.  It should be back up within 2 hours.





Sultan                    

                    

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Server Outage - Friday Nov. 4

                    
Thursday November 3, 2011 11:02

                    

                        Posted By DM_Sultan in NS4 News and Announcements
                    

                    

                        The server will be offline tomorrow, Friday November 4th, for network maintenance.  The outage is scheduled to begin at 11AM and should be back on line by 1PM (all times Eastern time) at the latest.  There will be no notice given ahead of the outage - this announcement is your advance notice.   :shock: 





Sultan                    

                    

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The Time for open war has come again!

                    
Monday October 3, 2011 17:53

                    

                        Posted By mining in NS4 News and Announcements
                    

                    

                        The due course of time has passed and we have yet again come to the time to call all of the warriors of the land to arms!!!





Dates and time have not yet been worked out but go ahead and plan for the Defender of the Relic event to take place in the next month or two.





This will again be divided into a heat scheduled event and the same rules and guidelines as the last event will apply to this one as well. If any changes are needed or made they will be posted on the official announcement to come later.





Please feel free to start a new thread to discuss and ask any needed questions.





(I know I don’t need to say this but this is not an open invitation to start flame wars or complain about what other factions/guilds have done in the past)





Look forward to seeing you all there and as soon as we have the exact dates and times we will post it as an official announcement.                    

                    

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Probable downtime soon for NS4

                    
Friday September 9, 2011 03:05

                    

                        Posted By Lokey in NS4 News and Announcements
                    

                    

                        Sept 9: Progress made but mysteries still remain, so there will be another outage that we will give you as much advance notice about as possible.





There's probably enough capacity that we shouldn't see network problems, but there will be another short outage when stab #3 is taken at the issue.                    

                    

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Eliminating excessive timeout wait

                    
Tuesday August 30, 2011 23:45

                    

                        Posted By mining in NS4 News and Announcements
                    

                    

                        While the master server is down, everyone is (unsurprisingly) irked by the long timeout. If you don't have premium modules or anything else that uses the bio auth server, blocking that in a way that returns a no connection error will remove that timeout.





Bypassing the long timeout is fairly easy:





For Win users (possibly mac as well? Don't know, try it and see, more likely to be related to linux method, which Lokey is still working on)





Find your hosts file. 


Should be in %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts





In general, navigating from your root directory (mine is C, yours might be some drive like J)


windows > system32 > drivers > etc > hosts (no extension)





If using Vista/Win7: Open notepad as an administrator. Copy the path in the address bar of windows explorer. Use the "open file" option of notepad, paste in the path, and open hosts.


Everyone else (XP): Open hosts with notepad.





Should look something like this:






 	  Code:	
	
	  # Copyright (c) 1993-2009 Microsoft Corp.


#


# This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows.


#


# This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. Each


# entry should be kept on an individual line. The IP address should


# be placed in the first column followed by the corresponding host name.


# The IP address and the host name should be separated by at least one


# space.


#


# Additionally, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual


# lines or following the machine name denoted by a '#' symbol.


#


# For example:


#


#      102.54.94.97     rhino.acme.com          # source server


#       38.25.63.10     x.acme.com              # x client host





# localhost name resolution is handled within DNS itself.


#	127.0.0.1       localhost


#	::1                 localhost  			






Add this line at the end of it:






 	  Code:	
	
	  


    0.0.0.0         nwmaster.bioware.com			






Then save as "hosts" (no extension).





There, done, boots up NWN and try to log in, should be much faster.                    

                    

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Bioware Auth Server Kaput

                    
Thursday July 28, 2011 23:33

                    

                        Posted By Lokey in NS4 News and Announcements
                    

                    

                        As luckily isn't wide-spread knowledge, Bioware took down the account server last month. This doesn't change anything, getting onto a random account has always been laughably easy.





Also unchanged is our auto-ban policy of messing up accounts that aren't yours. We track who logs into what, always have, and it's not often that we have to go digging into that (yay you guys, yah, I say that like never...doesn't mean we still don't hate you).





It's still unknown whether Bio/Atari/EA/etc will put the master server back up. Elven has a community version stubbed out, but it'd take client/server modification or bio pointing the domain elsewhere to make that happen. Might someday.                    

                    

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Tubes are clogged

                    
Monday July 11, 2011 21:39

                    

                        Posted By Lokey in NS4 News and Announcements
                    

                    

                        Have to deal with much lower bandwidth for a bit on the ns4 server. Let you know when things are improved, til then expect lag and also lag.





Edit: this is 20% resolved, but there should be enough bandwidth most of the time. More fixing in a few days.                    

                    

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NS4 Game Server Outage Update June 1st 19:00 UTC

                    
Wednesday June 1, 2011 14:11

                    

                        Posted By cely in NS4 News and Announcements
                    

                    

                        The NS4 game server is suffering some disk issues which will require physical intervention.  Unfortunately, the earliest that we can get to the server will be Friday night or Saturday (UTC -4).  This does not mean that the NS4 game server will be up on Friday night or Saturday, this simply means that is the earliest time we can get someone onsite to start troubleshooting the disk issues.





Please believe us when we say that we are doing everything we can to restore service in a timely manner.  The NS4 staff enjoys playing on the server just as much as the players do.





In the meantime, take this opportunity to visit NS3.5! :)                    

                    

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NS4 Game Server Outage - 1/18/2011 5:30PM EST

                    
Tuesday January 18, 2011 15:18

                    

                        Posted By DM_Sultan in NS4 News and Announcements
                    

                    

                        The game server will be off line at 5:30PM EST today to facilitate replacement of a failing Ethernet Switch.  The outage could last up to 30 minutes.





Sultan                    

                    

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