For Patchsrv.dat problem and For the attention of DEV.
 

This is for you if your patcher displays an error saying:

Run-Time Error

bump :roll:

I have tested this with 2 computers in my home. This is what is common with the computers :

1. Windows XP SP1
2. EverQuest patched to latest with all expansions incl. LoY
3. Both computers on same lan behind same firewall

This is what is different :

1. EQ installed in different folders (hence.. the error message points to the current EQ installed folder and NOTHING on the server wich was suggested in an earlier thread..)
2. One machine running without any mods of any kinds in UI
3. Installed the MDAC posted on news on one of them

Both computers have excactly the same error (xept for the link to the EQ folder where EQ is installed)

So.. anyone have any USEFUL tips for this problem? Does not seem like it is only me that have this problem.. So.. ?

Oki.. found something out.. please someone respond to this :

My firewall logs this :
EQEmuPatcher v1 N 2003-03-06 14:24:52
And it is trying to access this :
patchdata.foreverhacking.net - 80 180 284 - http TCP GET http://patchdata.foreverhacking.net/patch.dat

Now.. a quick dns lookup at my house gives me this :
[root@dns root]# dig www.foreverhacking.net

; <<>> DiG 9.1.3 <<>> www.foreverhacking.net
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 16364
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 3, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;www.foreverhacking.net. IN A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
www.foreverhacking.net. 86400 IN A 207.44.214.99

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
foreverhacking.net. 86400 IN NS ns1.cyberjunky.net.
foreverhacking.net. 86400 IN NS ns2.cyberjunky.net.
foreverhacking.net. 86400 IN NS ns3.cyberjunky.net.

;; Query time: 164 msec
;; SERVER: 213.225.108.130#53(213.225.108.130)
;; WHEN: Thu Mar 6 15:29:12 2003
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 121

And a same for patchdata :
[root@dns root]# dig patchdata.foreverhacking.net

; <<>> DiG 9.1.3 <<>> patchdata.foreverhacking.net
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NXDOMAIN, id: 45004
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;patchdata.foreverhacking.net. IN A

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
foreverhacking.net. 238 IN SOA ns1.cyberjunky.net. hostmaster.cyberjunky.net. 2003030303 300 120 3600 300

;; Query time: 11 msec
;; SERVER: 213.225.108.130#53(213.225.108.130)
;; WHEN: Thu Mar 6 15:30:00 2003
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 108

As you can see.. the patchdata "subdomain" of foreverhacking.net is non excistant. Anyone give me the current IP adress to connect to, i would be happy to do it. I tried to directly download "patch.dat" from www.foreverhacking.net , but no avail.

So.. there is apparently nothing wrong with the patcher itself and the error message with patchsrv.dat, but rather a fault at connecting to the actual site where the files reside. Either the files have been stopped (illegal copied versions of .exe files or similar), or foreverhacking.net have just removed it due to bandwith or whatnot.

So.. can ANYONE at all verify that they are able to actually patch now? ie. Remove any "patch.dat", "Patchsrv.dat" or "patchedtemp" files residing in eq folder, and run the patch.exe again.

Please.. :)

Go into your ..\everquest dir (wherever it is) and open up the file patcher.log. Notepad will suffice.

Post what it says here.

heregoes
 

Here it is, but to my eyes it looks kinda confusing and is not searching for any patchsrv.dat


************************************************** *****
Log Opened: 02/03/2003 15:59:14
************************************************** *****


GetFile Filename: patch.dat
Response Completed!
Size: 333 Chunk: 1024
Size DL: 333
GetFile Completed: 2043

************************************************** *****
Log Opened: 02/03/2003 16:01:05
************************************************** *****


GetFile Filename: patch.dat
Response Completed!
Size: 333 Chunk: 1024
Size DL: 333
GetFile Completed: 4026

************************************************** *****
Log Opened: 03/03/2003 22:14:12
************************************************** *****


GetFile Filename: patch.dat
Response Completed!
Size: 333 Chunk: 1024
Size DL: 333
GetFile Completed: 4697

************************************************** *****
Log Opened: 04/03/2003 20:04:39
************************************************** *****


GetFile Filename: patch.dat
Response Completed!
Size: 333 Chunk: 1024
Size DL: 333
GetFile Completed: 5748

I think you may be onto something. Everyone's having trouble finding patchsrv.dat...yet everyone's who does work doesn't look for patchsrv.dat, just patch.dat.....maybe this could be the lead to the fix that we're been waiting for.

Ive never touched the patcher, the developer that wrote that is gone temporarily due to Real Life (tm) issues. Can anyone comment on the contents of the patchsrv.dat file? I'm guessing it's just a location of the patch server. I'm wondering if they're are multiple versions of the program floating around, one bad one, one good.

Trump

I have had the problem as well. I never made any change to the program. Used the same one with the same install both before it worked and after it worked. v1.0.1 (aka never redownloaded it)

At no time during when it was not working or when it was working or after it was working was this file either resident on any of my systems, logged in the firewall or logged by the router.

Though I could field a guess, I would probably get flamed for it, as to the nature of this file.

Looking at the patcher.log I see very little difference between one that fails with this error and one that worked fine other than the time of day and whether or not you get the http: 7500 error.

here is my patcher.log:
Hope you can see where I get my ideas from when assimilating all of this information together and applying Arthur Conan Doyles theories to said information.

I am getting the same problem. Brand spanking new install of both EQ and EQEMU patches. Running Win XP - SP1.

I created a patchsrv.dat file on my local disk and it got alittle further but bombed out cause it obviously didn't have the right data in it. Looks like its just been left out of the installed I guess.

Tony

So it is my DNS server that does not work? Have you even looked at my post?

If i type :
ping patchdata.foreverhacking.net

i get :
Ping request could not find host patchdata.foreverhacking.net. Please check the name and try again.

Should this happen?

This is my patch.txt file :
************************************************** *****
Log Opened: 07.03.2003 08:59:25
************************************************** *****


GetFile Filename: patch.dat
Response Completed!
Size: 3389 Chunk: 1024
Size DL: 3389
GetFile Completed: 437

And the only file that gets downloaded is "patchedtemp" and it contains an standard error msg ie. 404 error in html.
This :
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML dir=ltr><HEAD><TITLE>The page cannot be displayed</TITLE>
<STYLE>A:link {
FONT: 8pt/11pt verdana; COLOR: #ff0000
}
A:visited {
FONT: 8pt/11pt verdana; COLOR: #4e4e4e
}
</STYLE>

<META content=NOINDEX name=ROBOTS>
<META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text-html; charset=Windows-1252">
<SCRIPT>
function Homepage(){
<!--
// in real bits, urls get returned to our script like this:
// res://shdocvw.dll/http_404.htm#http://www.DocURL.com/bar.htm

//For testing use DocURL = "res://shdocvw.dll/http_404.htm#https://www.microsoft.com/bar.htm"
DocURL=document.URL;

//this is where the http or https will be, as found by searching for :// but skipping the res://
protocolIndex=DocURL.indexOf("://",4);

//this finds the ending slash for the domain server
serverIndex=DocURL.indexOf("/",protocolIndex + 3);

//for the href, we need a valid URL to the domain. We search for the # symbol to find the begining
//of the true URL, and add 1 to skip it - this is the BeginURL value. We use serverIndex as the end marker.
//urlresult=DocURL.substring(protocolIndex - 4,serverIndex);
BeginURL=DocURL.indexOf("#",1) + 1;
urlresult=DocURL.substring(BeginURL,serverIndex);

//for display, we need to skip after http://, and go to the next slash
displayresult=DocURL.substring(protocolIndex + 3 ,serverIndex);
document.write('<A HREF="' + urlresult + '">' + displayresult + "</a>");
}
//-->
</SCRIPT>

<META content="MSHTML 5.50.4522.1800" name=GENERATOR></HEAD>
<BODY bgColor=#ffffff>
<TABLE cellSpacing=5 cellPadding=3 width=410>
<TBODY>
<TR>
<TD vAlign=center align=left width=360>
<H1 style="FONT: 13pt/15pt verdana; COLOR: #000000"><!--Problem-->The page
cannot be displayed</H1></TD></TR>
<TR>
<TD width=400 colSpan=2><FONT
style="FONT: 8pt/11pt verdana; COLOR: #000000">There is a problem with the
page you are trying to reach and it cannot be displayed.</FONT></TD></TR>
<TR>
<TD width=400 colSpan=2><FONT
style="FONT: 8pt/11pt verdana; COLOR: #000000">
<HR color=#c0c0c0 noShade>

<P>Please try the following:</P>
<UL>
<LI>Click the <A href="javascript:location.reload()">Refresh</A> button,
or try again later.<BR>
<LI>Open the
<SCRIPT>
<!--
if (!((window.navigator.userAgent.indexOf("MSIE") > 0) && (window.navigator.appVersion.charAt(0) == "2")))
{
Homepage();
}
//-->
</SCRIPT>
home page, and then look for links to the information you want.</LI>
<LI>If you believe you should be able to view this directory or page,
please contact the Web site administrator by using the e-mail address or
phone number listed on the
<SCRIPT> Homepage();</SCRIPT>
home page. </LI></UL>
<H2 style="FONT: 8pt/11pt verdana; COLOR: #000000">11004 - Host not found<BR>Internet Security and Acceleration Server</H2>
<HR color=#c0c0c0 noShade>

<P>Technical Information (for support personnel)</P>
<UL>
<LI>Background:<BR>This error indicates that the server, while acting as a gateway or proxy, could not find the IP address of an upstream content server.<P></P></LI>
</UL></FONT></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></BODY></HTML>

(This will prolly crash the board or sumtin.. But.. And i know this is what my firewall "isaserver" gives when it cannot reach a webpage.)

So.. can anyone tell me what their "Ping patchdata.foreverhacking.net" reports? Please..

Microsoft(R) Windows 98
(C)Copyright Microsoft Corp 1981-1999.

C:\WINDOWS>Ping patchdata.foreverhacking.net
Unknown host patchdata.foreverhacking.net.

C:\WINDOWS>ping foreverhacking.net

Pinging foreverhacking.net [207.44.214.99] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 207.44.214.99: bytes=32 time=66ms TTL=53
Reply from 207.44.214.99: bytes=32 time=67ms TTL=53
Reply from 207.44.214.99: bytes=32 time=67ms TTL=53
Reply from 207.44.214.99: bytes=32 time=64ms TTL=53

Ping statistics for 207.44.214.99:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 64ms, Maximum = 67ms, Average = 66ms

C:\WINDOWS>

patched.temp
 

I have the same problem : patchsrv.dat cannot be found

- I noticed I have this patched.temp file (in html format) saying:

Bad Gateway
The following error occurred:
A DNS lookup error occured. The host was not found.
Please contact the administrator.

This file is recorded/refreshed everytime I tried to run patcher and got the patchsrv.dat not found error.

- Win 98se, EQ with expansion up to PoP, patcher files under the right directory, cable modem broadband connection, connected to cable modem through a surecom router with NAT, using DHCP

- I tried the same patcher in another machine earlier, using Win Me, ADSL connection, also behind a router with NAT and NO PROBLEM

- ping foreverhacking.net, ping 204.44.214.99, browse foreverhacking.net were successful (except sometimes ping timed out 1 out of 4 pings)

- ## pls note ## I got a mdac_typ file from my friend (think it installed some kind of SQL files) before I could even run the Patcher. Without that SQL patch, my machine wont even recognize the patcher's first instruction (forgot the exact error mesg)

The patcher is kindof wierd. Things that can help fix the problem are:

Did you follow these instructions and install mdac_type.exe

Did you actually run mdac_type.exe or just download it?

The patch server is geting LOTS of trafic, try agin later.

ping.exe foreverhacking.net

tracert.exe foreverhacking.net

The contents of patcher.log
The contents of patchedtemp if it exists AND seems to be text

Is patcher.exe in the same dir as eqgame.exe like it should be?


If patcher.log says you downloaded a file ANY file, then my guess is either heavy net trafic, or not installing mdac_typ is the problem.

Also here is a MDAC checker util from MS

I downloaded the latest Everquest from sony and then let it patch itself. I looks like this dat file doesnt even come with the installer.