WTH! Connection errors??

[Belfedia]

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 . castershaven.no-ip.org 7995 69.150.177.245
 
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------------------------

It think i'm not silly :p I just try to help you !
On my server, right syntax for zoneperl command is :
zoneperl . externalIP PORT internalIP
you make :
zoneperl . castershaven.no-ip.org 7995 69.150.177.245
69.150.177.245 is one of your externalIP (dynamic who change all time, that why you need a No-ip.org adress)
and you need
zoneperl . castershaven.no-ip.org 7995 localhost
or
zoneperl . castershaven.no-ip.org 7995 127.0.0.1
or
zoneperl . castershaven.no-ip.org 7995 70.241.192.158
70.241.192.158 is also your internalIP adress.

With that your zoneperl CAN connect to world

I notice a Default Gateway in your ipconfig ? Are you on a network ?

[ubatch]

Not on a network...Its only this one computer im using...

I did localhost instead of 69.150.177.245 and it worked, can other people using EQEMu comment to me? Just wanna make sure...

Also,

I never had this problem before, what I did before was go to www.no-ip.org and change my dns config there (castershaven.no-ip.org) to my current address that was shown on www.whatismyip.com (which is dynamic - and yes it changed about every week or whenever I restarted)

That seemed to work, up until a few days ago, which again was the day I installed Apache and PHP and uninstalled it almost immediately after, so I was thinking that caused the problem...I DONT KNOW!

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As long as
zoneperl . castershaven.no-ip.org 7995 localhost
allows OTHERS to connect to me, i'll leave it that way...

If you can answer that simple question for me, i'll stop pulling my hair out and just do it the easy way

Thanks a ton.

[ubatch]

Ok, just tried to connect w/ the localhost on the end of it, and couldnt...FUDGERAMAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ubatch]

Anyone got suggestions? =P

[Belfedia]

A little more question,
You have no message in log from world.exe ?
I notice you don't put the log.
World.exe log finish with a "connected to loginserver: newlogin1.eqemulator.net:5994"
you have that ? if no, try to change in your loginserver.ini
that : loginserver=newlogin1.eqemulator.net

When zone can't connect with world, i see 2 issue :
Bad ip on config files or
Router or firewall problem (you don't change anything ? ) Emu need the 7995 port open for work in your config.

[Damilis]

My thoughts:

I am assuming:
1) You are running server .exe's and client .exe's on same machine
2) based on your IP, your computer is NOT behind a router/firewall and that the IP you have is Dynamicly assigned by your ISP
3) for arguments sake, we will use 78.56.34.12 as 'your' IP

db.ini -> looks good.

loginserver.ini:

 
### --- This file tells world.exe what loginserver to connect to.
### --- Leave the account and password field BLANK.
### --- Public Login is un-supported as is LAN playing.
### --- We reccomend using the EQEmu.net Loginserver ALWAYS.
### --- NOTE: Starting 6-1-2002, you can no longer use the word
### --- "Server" in worldname.  The word "Server" is
### --- added to each server automaticly.
### --- READ README.TXT

[LoginServer]
loginserver=eqemulator.net
loginport=5998
worldname=Caster's Haven
worldaddress=78.56.34.12
locked=false
account=
password=

[WorldServer]
Defaultstatus=0
Unavailzone=
[ChatChannelServer]
worldshortname=
chataddress=
chatport=

boot5zones.bat:

REM: ****Read this first!!!****
REM: This file requires your real IP in the place
REM:   of "YourIP" when you are connecting
REM:   to the EQEmu Loginserver.
REM: When you are using minilogin,
REM:   Replace all IP Addresses to say 127.0.0.1
REM: If you still get errors try using
REM:   localhost instead of 127.0.0.1
REM:--------------Start-----------------------
@echo off
if NOT exist spells_us.txt goto NOSPELL
 
start zoneperl . 78.56.34.12 7995 localhost
start zoneperl . 78.56.34.12 7996 localhost
#start zoneperl . 78.56.34.12 7997 localhost
#start zoneperl . 78.56.34.12 7998 localhost
#start zoneperl . 78.56.34.12 7999 localhost
 
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------------------------

And, of course, if it doesn't work, replace localhost with 127.0.0.1. And if that still doesn't work, mind you this is a LAST resort, replace all occurances of localhost or 127.0.0.1 with your external ip 78.56.34.12...... but this will drasticly slow down connect times and may even timeout the client, all depends on your internet connection speed.

[Belfedia]

0.6.0 DR3 need the loginserver port 5994 not 5998, for the rest it is good...

[ubatch]

World.exe

[Status] CURRENT_WORLD_VERSION:EQEMu 0.6.0-DR3
[Status] Loading variables..
[Status] Loading zones..
[Status] Clearing groups..
[Status] Loading items..
[Status] EMuShareMem loaded
[Status] Loading items from database: count=39626
[Status] ./LoginServer.ini read.
[Status] Loading guild ranks..
[Status] Loading ./addon.ini..
[Status] Loading EQ time of day..
[Status] Deleted 0 stale player corpses from database
[Status] Deleted 0 stale player backups from database
Abort/retry/cancel?
TCP listening on: 69.148.9.35:9000
World server listening on: 69.148.9.35:9000
Connected to LoginServer: eqemulator.net:5994

Now, replace everything with my current IP (yes it's dynamic) and/or with my DNS (from www.no-ip.com) which is castershaven.no-ip.org.

This has been so stressful....

Trying your suggestions, give me a few minutes.