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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Corsair on February 11, 2005, 05:33:52 pm

Title: Forum's buggy again
Post by: Corsair on February 11, 2005, 05:33:52 pm

Weird. I keep jumping over from dynamic4 to dynamic3. When I'm on dynamic4 I'm okay but when I get shoved onto 3, I get logged out. Anybody know what's going on?

Title: Forum's buggy again
Post by: Ford Prefect on February 11, 2005, 07:58:51 pm

It's the result of ourselves from the future trying to communicate with us. They're warning us that soon, everything is going to go horribly wrong. Freespace 3 has become the next in the line of 3000 AD games. HLP is battered and fighting a losing battle. There are not many of us left. They're trying to warn us!

Title: Forum's buggy again
Post by: Setekh on February 11, 2005, 08:10:37 pm

If your question refers to our being split onto dynamic3-6, that's GameSpy's makeshift fix for the unreliability of the dynamic servers by running us off a cluster instead of a single box.

If it's about being logged out, the handling of cookies is probably fubared by the server changing, so each time you're shunted onto another server, your cookies have expired on that server - requiring you to login again.

Title: Forum's buggy again
Post by: Bobboau on February 11, 2005, 08:19:00 pm

is there a way that we can have one server do the time tracking thing?, or maybe read from a third party source?

Title: Forum's buggy again
Post by: Setekh on February 11, 2005, 10:34:54 pm

There is probably a way, but given the server troubles that we're having to deal with right now, I can tell you that it's really not worth it. Certainly not in the long run.

Title: Forum's buggy again
Post by: WMCoolmon on February 12, 2005, 03:20:41 am

Is it temporary? If not, you might be able to write some sort of function to grab the date/time from whoever's providing free clock service on the internet these days, global search and replace through the vBB code after it's tested, and toggle it on/off if the server's clock goes significantly out of whack.

Title: Forum's buggy again
Post by: karajorma on February 12, 2005, 03:43:09 am

Or you could just get everyone to do what I did. Bookmark the forum's main page on Dynamic4 and just jump straight to the forums every time :)

Title: Forum's buggy again
Post by: WMCoolmon on February 12, 2005, 03:44:05 am

You still have the problem with musical servers then. :p

Title: Forum's buggy again
Post by: karajorma on February 12, 2005, 03:49:02 am

I still have problems with other people being on other servers. I'm always on D4 :D

Title: Forum's buggy again
Post by: Corsair on February 12, 2005, 07:46:14 am

I'm almost always on D4. Just yesterday it kept jumping to D3.

Title: Forum's buggy again
Post by: vyper on February 12, 2005, 09:26:24 am

Never been pushed off d4, ever. Cluster style servers are perfectly fine at handling this sort of thing normally - it's typical GS BS. ;)