Boot5zones

[Innerfire963]

Hello,

Im trying to run a server and when I try to start up the Boot5zone.exe thing it flashes on then logs off... I typed in my external ip and internal ip... and its not working... I dont know what else could be the problem... can any one help?

- Thanks in advance.

[Skylark13]

What HOWTO did you follow? If you followed the one with Perl quests, then you need to change the boot5zones.bat (right-click and select Edit) so that the 5 lines that begin with "zone" begin with "zoneperl" instead.

To elaborate a bit more, the problem is that the executable to start a zone in the normal build is called "zone.exe", and in the Perl build it's called "zoneperl.exe", but they included the same batch file ("boot5zones.bat") in both distributions, so you need to change it if you have the Perl build.

Hope this helps.

[Innerfire963]

well now it says that windows cannot find zoneperl perl and some other non important crap...

REM: ****Read this first!!!****

REM: This file requires your real IP in the place of "YourIP" when you are connecting
REM: To the EQEmu Loginserver.

REM: When you are using minilogin, Replace all IP Addresses to say 127.0.0.1

REM: If you still get errors try using localhost instead of 127.0.0.1

REM:--------------Start-----------------------
@echo off

if NOT exist spells_us.txt goto NOSPELL

start zoneperl . 152.163.100.14 7995 172.144.28.134
start zoneperl . 152.163.100.14 7996 172.144.28.134
start zoneperl . 152.163.100.14 7997 172.144.28.134
start zoneperl . 152.163.100.14 7998 172.144.28.134
start zoneperl . 152.163.100.14 7999 172.144.28.134
exit
cls

:NOSPELL
echo You did not copy the spells_us.txt from your everquest directory to this one. Please do so or zones will crash on startup.
PAUSE

REM:---------------END------------------------

thats the part you ment to change right?

well right now its not working, but thanks for trying.

Any one else able to help or you have another idea?

-thanks in advance

[aza77]

open a command prompt and write

tracert 152.163.100.14

u will get a info like (yours will be a little bit different)
1 <1ms <1ms <1ms dsl-152.163.100.14.arcor-ip.net [152.163.100.14]
the part before your ip in [] is the important one.

than open ur boot5zone.exe and replace

zoneperl with zone and
152.163.100.14 with the result of tracert

that should fix it imo

[solid11]

If you follow Malignus' tutorial regarding perl enabled, and you DL the 11_09_04_Compiled_Perl file, the exe in there isn't zoneperl.exe, it is just zone.exe. So is there another one to DL somewhere because that isn't it.

[Innerfire963]

well... now its not working... still...

REM: ****Read this first!!!****

REM: This file requires your real IP in the place of "YourIP" when you are connecting
REM: To the EQEmu Loginserver.

REM: When you are using minilogin, Replace all IP Addresses to say 127.0.0.1

REM: If you still get errors try using localhost instead of 127.0.0.1

REM:--------------Start-----------------------
@echo off

if NOT exist spells_us.txt goto NOSPELL

start zone . ipt-dtci19.proxy.aol.com 7995 172.130.123.181
start zone . ipt-dtci19.proxy.aol.com 7996 172.130.123.181
start zone . ipt-dtci19.proxy.aol.com 7997 172.130.123.181
start zone . ipt-dtci19.proxy.aol.com 7998 172.130.123.181
start zone . ipt-dtci19.proxy.aol.com 7999 172.130.123.181
exit
cls

:NOSPELL
echo You did not copy the spells_us.txt from your everquest directory to this one. Please do so or zones will crash on startup.
PAUSE

REM:---------------END------------------------

Help again plz?

[quinsee]

I don't think you'll be able to host publicly unless someone else can tell you how to beat AOLs proxy. Even though you might have the correct ports open on your router AOLs proxy probably doesn't have them open for your connection.

That ipt.blah.proxy.aol (I forgot to copy it before replying) is a dynamic name. Pretty much AOL filters everything that comes through their network.

I'm sorry I don't have a solution, but this is my explanation of why it possibly doesn't work.

[wize_one]

have you copied the spells_us.txt and spells_en.txt to the dir your running boot5 from?

[Cisyouc]

I don't think you'll be able to host publicly unless someone else can tell you how to beat AOLs proxy. Even though you might have the correct ports open on your router AOLs proxy probably doesn't have them open for your connection.

That ipt.blah.proxy.aol (I forgot to copy it before replying) is a dynamic name. Pretty much AOL filters everything that comes through their network.

I'm sorry I don't have a solution, but this is my explanation of why it possibly doesn't work.
Its "protection".

[DuDeMaN]

blah!! more spam, answered my own question. sorry :-P

[Darktanion]

Because you put it back to Zone . xxx.xxx.xxx.xx 4444 xxx.xxx.xxx.xx
It needs to be zoneperl . xxx.xxx.xxx.xx 4444 xxx.xxx.xxx.xx
and you need to change the actual exe file that it loads from// from zoneperl.exe to just zone.exe
LATE POST LOL but for anyone else I wanted to fix this whole page of mesh...