Not positive it is an EQEmu bug, but...
It seems there are some servers where only local connections now work. heh used to be only internet connections :p
Local connections connect and play fine, internet players seem to get booted on character name submission, or even earlier.
http://forums.eqemu.net/viewtopic.php?t=5069 for a more information from Fnero and myself
http://forums.eqemu.net/download.php?id=332 contains the world screens from a good and bad login.