Our Situation – Page 2 – Clan DOU General Chatter

Tommy · 2007-03-11T04:05:15Z

As many of you may have noticed, 4 of our 6 servers are down. First, a break down of the servers and who takes care of them business-wise: Sniper Server (Tommy) Multi Server (Tommy) Practice Server (Tommy) Bolt Action Server (Draco) FN 1v1 Uzi Server (Draco) Instagib Server (Diminished) Draco's 2 servers are still up, the rest are down and/or out. Here is what happened. Our good friend Turkey decided to fuck with the servers, and as a result, the ones he has fucked with already will no longer run UT99. He doesn't seem to care about this. The servers that I and Dim take care of were affected. I have been patiently and politely talking with Turkey since last weekend about this. The end result of talking with him tonight is that not only will he not move our games to a server that does work, but he wanted to move Draco's servers to the machine that doesn't work. How does that make sense? Here is the current state of things with our servers and Turkey. The 3 servers I deal with just will not work and he is unwilling to help with the situation. Add to that the fact that our monthly payment is due in about an hour or so from now and it will not come as a surprise to you that I have canceled the servers and froze our funds so that he may not get any more money for those 3 servers. Dim's server does not work either and I suspect will never again work while associated with Turkey. Draco is getting a hold of him to let him know he should cancel his server as well. That leaves us with Draco's 2 servers. For the time being, his servers do in fact work properly. However, Turkey has stated that he intends to change those servers as well, and they will most likely no longer work when that happens too. He plans to change the servers very soon (week or 2). When that happens Draco will be canceling those servers as well. Turkey has fucked us several times in the past, so it comes as no surprise that he is doing so one last time. Where does this leave us? First, we looked around and found that we could not find another game service provider cheap enough to allow us to maintain 6 servers - not even half of that. So we were pretty much boned there. Then I got some info from a friend who is extremely sharp with computers and networking about getting a server of our own. I then priced out some servers. It looks like we will be able to get our own server and we are figuring this out now. There are still issues of money. We have funds still left in the dou coffers, and a few people have pledged support. I don't want this post to be all about the money, that is something we will deal with as we need to. I have found a reasonably priced server that should be able to host all 6 game servers we currently run, and probably team speak too. If not we can upgrade it to the next tier for a small fee and that would for sure do it. This is what we are planning to do now. By the way, anybody who wants to be part of the planning process just needs to come to TS and say Hi. I am going to try my best to make this a reality. Be aware that there will also be a learning curve involved. I will have help from some very gifted people so if I get the server, it will go up. Like I said before, Turkey fucked us one last time, but what he doesn't seem to realize is that nothing will ever be able to tear this clan apart. We are here for the long haul. As an added bonus, we will never have to deal with this asshole again. He will soon be a distant bad memory that time has dulled. I will be posting more very soon. I do understand that everybody is eager for the games to go back up. I will do my best to be as quick as I can but it may take a bit of time. Thanks, Tommy

GRouND ZeRo

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MAN... I hope we are going to be alright... Thanks Draco...

"The buddy system is essential to your survival; it gives the enemy somebody else to shoot at!!"

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Posted : 15/03/2007 9:16 pm

GRouND ZeRo

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Draco wrote: OMA has graciously offered their public servers to us to play on in the meantime. Have a good one.

-Johnny Jones

If anyone can suggest some other Server IP's to look for would be great if we can join the same servers once in a while...

This may actually improve our UT community...

"The buddy system is essential to your survival; it gives the enemy somebody else to shoot at!!"

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Posted : 15/03/2007 10:09 pm

Anonymous

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THC 63.209.36.111 is cool

tkk if you like is 70.86.141.87

if you need more e mail me at mike_hot13@hotmail.com

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Posted : 16/03/2007 1:42 am

GRouND ZeRo

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I kinda like this one for fun...

EXPERIMENTAL 1 75.179.183.197

It's an all out fragfest mostly...(ALL WEAPONS!!!)

"The buddy system is essential to your survival; it gives the enemy somebody else to shoot at!!"

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Posted : 16/03/2007 10:35 am

Tommy

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I am about to send the signed forms in. It is 7am my time (6am server time) so the forms will arrive well before anybody is there to get them. This means that there is a real possibility that we will have this server today. This is of course only going to be possible if the business did in fact start preparing the server ahead of time like they said they did.

Depending on what I need to do, we *might* have a game running by tonight. It will most likely be light on files, but running nonetheless.

FYI, I do not plan to even run basic daemons like web, mail, etc. These services will simply not be available on the server. I don't see that we need them and they will just use up resources and present a few extra holes for the hackers to try and get in through. The server will probably not have a domain name either.

More as it develops.

Tommy

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Topic starter Posted : 16/03/2007 11:09 am

Tommy

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Still waiting on the server. They did mail me with this:

Thank you for the zip files. I just found out from our inventory that we

just sold our last DS-1 server, so we will upgrade your chip to P4 2.4

instead of Celeron 2.4 if we can't find a suitable chip for DS-1. So, please

hang tight and I will make sure your server is up and running today.

[Insert comments here]

First, sometime today could be 11pm tonight. We will just play it by ear. I will be around and waiting to hear from them.

Next, I specifically wanted the Celeron D because it did NOT have hyperthreading. I was lead to believe that the dual core processors Turkey is now using was the source of our game problems and hyperthreading is just a poor man's dual core. There are too many details to type out here, but as it stands now I think Turkey is just a fucking idiot and the dual core thing may not have been the problem. Still it may have been, but with Turkey in the picture I would not bet the family jewels on it! Still, if hyperthreading does become a problem I can just turn it off in the system BIOS. Either way, the P4 is a much more powerful chip then the Celeron D. So if we do get the P4 we will be sitting pretty (Except Draco, he is fucking ugly. Seriously, I have seen a picture). So when we get the server and what will be in it are all still unknowns. Soon though. Stay tuned for more info.

Tommy

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Topic starter Posted : 16/03/2007 6:24 pm

Anonymous

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Well, the rig I run almost matching this exactly except I have a 2.8GHZ P4. Because of the coding I do, I have run a dedicated server, listen server, and any other flavor of server on my rig and had no issues. It'll fly! See you in TS.

-Johnny Jones

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Posted : 16/03/2007 11:13 pm

Tommy

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Almost 7:30 PM EST and nothing yet. Kinda looking bleak for today, huh? My card hasn't been charged yet. We'll see. looking more and more like tomorrow will be the day.

T

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Topic starter Posted : 16/03/2007 11:20 pm

Tommy

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We got the server last night. Everything looks good so far. Most people are reporting acceptable pings so far too.

I have configured and patched a linux install of UT99 and I am in the process of uploading it now. Then I have to get it working. I am hoping still that we see sometrhing later this afternoon. It looks like I will have to ref a few different FN matches today so that is going to burn up a lot of time, such is life I suppose. But I will keep banging away at it as I can and we will see what happens.

I am re-doing the sniper server from the ground up so I can get it as smooth and lean as possible. So after it is running you will see maps trickling in all day. The beauty is that the redirect is already set up so I don't have to deal with that at all. 🙂

More news as it develops.

T

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Topic starter Posted : 17/03/2007 3:42 pm

Tommy

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Here is a list of our new I.P.'s And how I think they will be assigned:

66.128.50.218 - Main Sniper Server

66.128.50.219 - Multi Server (Uzi)

66.128.50.220 - Bolt Action Server

66.128.50.221 - Gay Action Server (Diminished)

66.128.50.222 - Practice Server

We can also tack the FN 1 v 1 Uzi server on the last I.P. and create a web page reachable switch for it to turn it on and off as necessary.

Please understand that this list is subject to change.

Tommy

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Topic starter Posted : 17/03/2007 4:01 pm

GRouND ZeRo

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YAY!!! WE HAVE A HOME!!! :woot:

Now if we can get rid of the :ctf: CTF :ctf2: and substitute it for JAILBREAK we'll be alright!

"The buddy system is essential to your survival; it gives the enemy somebody else to shoot at!!"

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Posted : 17/03/2007 9:07 pm

{DOU}Cygnus

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Nothing wrong with CTF!!!

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Posted : 17/03/2007 10:34 pm

Anonymous

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WOOHOO!!!!! _J is the man!!!! We now have a fully functioning master server and Tommy and I have already begun rebuilding the individual game servers. This rocks.

-Johnny Jones

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Posted : 18/03/2007 2:40 am

Anonymous

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Tommy wrote: Here is a list of our new I.P.'s And how I think they will be assigned:

66.128.50.221 - Gay Action Server (Diminished)

Tommy

You know you'll be there

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Posted : 18/03/2007 3:05 am

GRouND ZeRo

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Man I can't wait till all of the servers are up.... 😯

"The buddy system is essential to your survival; it gives the enemy somebody else to shoot at!!"

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Posted : 18/03/2007 6:29 am