Winters Roar down? June 24

[shick1098]

I went to the address given Oscar, but is there a way to actually play on WR as of now? I'm not that great at the technical stuff so please be patient :-P

[Oscar]

Hehe np. You should be able to avoid the patcher by going straight to eqgame.exe.

[shick1098]

should I edit the eqhost file to the address you gave me? and when I try running eqgame.exe, it tells me to run Everquest.exe first, but that could be overcome by running eqwindows, I guess.

[Oscar]

You shouldn't need to change your eqhost file.

[shick1098]

I tried that, but it can't connect to the server :-/

[Oscar]

http://67.15.24.48/phpbb2/viewforum....a14798c1956b8e

If you have more trouble look in the above thread. My boss is eyeing me like I stole something lol so I'm trying to respond discreetly. Hes a government guy and I'm a contractor so it's basically like Ogres and Wood Elves....

[shick1098]

I never had any trouble connecting before, but now it just won't connect...like it worked perfectly last night.

[Oscar]

I had the same issue. Go to the word document that came with the new patcher and try inputting that IP I gave you. Also change http://wintersroar.com to www.wintersroar.com.

[shick1098]

I couldn't find the word document in the zip file and do I put the ip into the eqhost file?

[Oscar]

Did you get the new patcher that was just released? If not check that tech forum link I posted.

[shick1098]

Yeah I did get the new patcher, and which thread do I go to in the link? It just goes to the Tech Forum main page

[shick1098]

YES I got it to work . Thanks for all your help Oscar

[Oscar]

Cool cool, just disregard my PM =)

Btw, what did you do just incase lol.

[Daimona]

I was having the same problem accessing the WR website as well as the server server hang. After reading here, and finally being able to access the forums I found the following post which fixed my problem.
Hope it helps you.


Copied from WR forums:


DNS is having problems. it's not resolving wintersroar.com but is resolving www.wintersroar.com. It's working for some because their running off of cached DNS.

Add these 2 files to your hosts file:

67.15.24.48 wintersroar.com
67.15.24.48 www.wintersroar.com

The hosts file is normally in:

c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc


***Edit, i did not realize there was a second page now so my apologies if this is just redundant information ;p***

[Kaynin]

Wll friggan sorry for puting this in the wrong place, i kinda figured it might have been a "general" becouse its a spicific server and not amuch or anything. whatever.


Anyway, the DNS thing helped me with what i needed.