Luke.S, Try doing the same thing as i did... the IP addresses for OpenDNS are:

Primary:
208.67.222.222

Alternate:
208.67.220.220

These can be set in your "network connetions" icon in your control panel.

• Right click on your local area connection. or wireless connection, and select properties.
  
• in the window that appears drag the scroll bar down to the bottom and click on "internet protocol (TCP/IP) and click properties undernieth.
  
• at the bottom of that window click "use the following DNS server addresses".
  
• Enter the above Ip's into those boxes.
  
• Click ok. and ok again.

Quote from the_angry_angel :

Dandaman05 - working fine.

Do you have access to logon to the server directly?

Can you resolve master.liveforspeed.net (nslookup -type=a master.liveforspeed.net)? Does it resolve to 213.40.20.2?
Can you ping it (ping master.liveforspeed.net)?
Can you telnet to master.liveforspeed.net on port 8080 and 29339 (telnet master.liveforspeed.net 29339)? If you get a connection you should get a blank window with a flashing cursor.

Yep i can RDC to the box. I shall have a go at your advice... Thanks.

EDIT:

Information from command prompt:

nslookup -type=a master.liveforspeed.net
DNS request timed out.
timeout was 2 seconds.
*** Can't find server name for address 195.78.83.2: Timed out
Server: UnKnown
Address: 195.78.83.2

DNS request timed out.
timeout was 2 seconds.
DNS request timed out.
timeout was 2 seconds.
*** Request to UnKnown timed-out

Ping

Ping request could not find host master.liveforspeed.net. Please check the name
and try again.

Telnet

Connecting To master.liveforspeed.net...Could not open connection to the host, on port 29339: Connect failed

Seems my box cannot see the server at all, could be a DNS issue, because i cant even load websites... im tempted to put it on OpenDNS.

EDIT 2: Seems the D/C are having some issues or at least my hosting company.. just set my server to point to openDNS and everything seems fine now... Thanks Angry Angel for you assistance.

Last edited by DANDAMAN05, Sun, 10 Feb 2008 17:08.

*bump*

Anyone else having the same problems or is it just my server?

Could UKCT maybe try to launch a server and see if it works? Would rule out any connection issues with the d/c.

Thanks
Dan.

EDIT: Just rebooted the server to see if that helps, did quite the opposite. None of my servers can connected to the LFS master server. Please help!

Last edited by DANDAMAN05, Sun, 10 Feb 2008 13:41.

If i try to start a new game server on my dedi box it cant resolve the address of the master server.

Anyone else confirm?

Quote from imthebestracerthereis :

Dan, if you check the replay, you can see that "Dza" had the admin password. (His name was light yellow)

its weird because i couldnt log in with the admin p/w that i set my server to use, so therefore it must have been changed some how.

There are too many servers online as it is for such a small community that we have... just look at the idle servers that are more or less empty 24/7...

Having less servers isnt really that important to be concerned about at this stage.

lol, sweet.

Quote from anbiddulph :

your nota fusion admin!
get of my server!
fake admin was banned

And the point of that post was?
I appologise for trying to keep my servers clean from idiots every now and then. i cant sit at my pc all day in the demo servers just admining can i? Think before you post.

Seems that my demo servers where quite a hit, and closing them is having a negative impact on the LFS community. Im considering re-opening them, but with certain filters in place to prevent the whole "lol im fusion admin bla bla".

As for the "hack", well.. its a real shame that someone would sit there and figure out a way in which to make the "hack" work...

Hmm. Personally i can stop the hacking.. at least on my servers. Im closing the Fusion Demo servers. I feel that if they race LFS so much, they should pay the small fee to buy the licensed content. The running of those servers are more trouble than they are worth to be fair. I refuse to pay for running those servers, when they are just being abused... would rather use my dedi servers resources elsewhere.

No i am not giving into the "hacker" threat, i just dont see the point in hosting as many demo servers as there are today. Plus those SillyProject servers.. what are all those about? Seems some guy wants to test out his new dedi to me... anyway thats a whole different story.

how can you say LFS is more realistic? why dont you try and rev your engine (in real life) so that your burning your clutch... you will find that in real life it takes a hell of a lot longer, than in LFS.

Quote from felplacerad :

Dan, about the admin issues, are you sure the /admin setting isn't commented (//). It is by default.

nope it was right... all my other servers where fine at the time. I just rebooted the server (game server) and it was fine.

Quote from zeugnimod :

On a demo or S2 server?

If it was a S2 server you should send the replay to the devs IMO.

This was on demo.

Looking at my server now, it seems someone else (possibly the same guy with a different name) is doing the same thing. *sigh*

EDIT: It appears that this has happened again, where i am unable to log into the server with the admin password. I think something is wrong here. my dedi settings are fine nothing wrong with them. I am hosting many servers on my box, and this is the only problem server... needless to say the only server that the "hack" has been found on.

EDIT 2: From where i am sat, its a wild idea, but maybe you l33t programmers amongst us can figure out if its possible or not. My idea is that the "hacker" is able to change the admin password of the server, meaning that all admins cannot connect with that password / change the password so there isn't one i.e comment it out in effect. I have to restart the server app to get the rights back, as it re-launches the initial config. I tried to connect LFS lapper to one of the demo servers other than my server #1, and it couldnt connect because the password was wrong, however i checked the inital config (server.cfg) and it was correct...
Any thoughts?

Last edited by DANDAMAN05, Sat, 2 Feb 2008 23:00.

link updated.. file appeared to have uploaded incorrectly.

his name was Dza.

NOTE: that player "makus admin fusion" was not a fusion admin.. too many people like to pretend

Quote from mcgas001 :

"FILE FAILED HEADER CHECK" ??

works fine here...

Hey all. I was moderating my demo servers today, and noticed that a player was jumping around the track, meaning he could finish the lap very quickly. BL1 - FBM. When the player started to back straight on blackwood, his car seemed to teleport to the end of the straight, and he would finish the lap in about 50secs.

See the replay attached.

Replay: BlackWood Standard - FBM

Whether this is unrelated or not, i also noticed that i was unable to log in the game server with the admin password that i set. I checked the password several times via remote desktop, and in the end had to ban him from the console on the server.

Thanks
Dan.

Last edited by DANDAMAN05, Fri, 1 Feb 2008 14:22.

Quote from mcgas001 :

You may think we are flamming him or not helping. But we are trying to benift him from previous experience..

Yes i can see that, and i acknowledge that. However its not the people that are helping him that i aimed that rant at really, i was the sarcastic people making posts that are complete crap. Like Jakg. Was there any need for that? Where's your programming experience? @ Jack At least give him some credit for what he is doing... or are you that heartless to just post crap like that?

EDIT: i have nothing more to say about this, ive made my views clear.

Quote from foofighter :

I understand the point of shorty, but to discuss every single disconnect means a lot more work for the admins.

I think, the only way to solve this problem needs the help of scawen!

you may know it from online poker. in that moment you suddenly disconnect, the software takes over from you until you reconnect.

It could be a serverside option, that if a player suffers a disconnect, an LFS-AI takes over the car and bring it back to the pits. so the player can rejoin and continue driving the same car he drove before! nobody can gain an advantage, and you don't loose a lap if it happens.

Thats actually a really good idea.. however like tweak said, it probs wont happen because Scawen will be busy working on the sim rather than little features that would be handy, after all he cant cater for everyone's needs, no-one can.

Super idea though!

EDIT: Couldnt an insim application be written to check the replays and detect a disco? i dont have any programming experience, but im sure it would save the admins a lot of time...

Guys, i can understand that you are getting annoyed by him asking the same questions over and over again. But take a step back for a second.

This Kid is 10 years of age... He is trying to code an insim application that he can use as some form of cruise server. Have you ever thought in your short tempered minds that he may be having issues understanding what you actually mean?

I cant think of ANY child that age that is writing a program in C#. I i much doubt that you can think of many. So guys, just think for a minute what he is actually trying to achieve... Something that you wouldn't expect your average 10 year old to be doing. I can only praise him for what he has done so far. He is proud of what he has got so far, and i think we all should be to. You guys are helping him a lot, i can see that, and i can also see that you may be getting frustrated like i said before with being asked the same questions over and over... but just think about what i've said before you start the flaming.

And yes, I am his brother. And i dont care what you have to think about that to be honest. You can flame me all you like, i couldnt really care less what you have to say in that respect, because i am aware of the immaturity in most of the people that post here. We should be helping each other create a friendly environment and a nice community to be a part of, also helping each other with projects that we may undertake. "Sun" comes into my room when i am gaming to show me what he has done so far, he can explain the source code to me and what each section does... and to be honest, that is beyond me.

I think some of you need to take a reality check....

However i must thank the people that have helped him so far, you are the types of people that is community should be full of, even if they don't have programming knowledge, still a little support wouldn't go a miss now would it. I must personally thank the_angry_angel for his patience too.

I noticed that in the Player list of the new LFS remote system, the 1st player name is shown amongst all the guests. I.E the "host" is shown as a connection. Would be nice for this to be stripped out of the player list so it only shows the guests.

Quote from gezmoor :

Nathan,

Stay off the fusion servers they are usually amongst the worst.

I am aware that my servers attract alot of attention in the demo section of the sim, because they are so popular. Therefore i am taking measures to ensure that the racing on these servers are kept as clean as possible so that you can test the game propperly. I am putting together a small "underground" admin team to monitor theses servers. The admins have nothing to do with fusion, however they are respectable people with a mature attitude towards their role. I will be taking more of these people on to help combat this issue.

Please DO NOT apply to become an admin. You will be selected.

Also LFS Lapper will soon be installed on these servers with swear filters / spam filters and idle detection.

We at fusion want you to experience the very best that LFS has to offer in its servers, and i am taking measures to ensure that this is the case.

Thanks
Dan.

Very nice site! However is your RDNS working? All e-mails seem to go to the junk folder...

Quote from Belain :

Wow this one rawks aswel!

Spidercar, spidercar, does whatever a spidercar does.
Can it swing from a web? No it cant it's a car!
Lookout it is a spidercar!

Haha Quality.

Very nice skin you guys got there!

See post #36 below.....
-Tweak

Last edited by Tweaker, Thu, 17 Jan 2008 23:34.

lol! quality

This is me with one of my girls...

[Dan]

/me fancies a go at this.

player name: Fusion. Dan
lfswname: DANDAMAN05