Zugg Software :: View topic - very strange freezing problem

Novice Joined: 19 Jan 2002 Posts: 34 Location: Austria

I have a really strange problem here.
I am trying to connect to the medievia.com:4000 mud. Ok, i can do that and i can go on until... well look for yourself:

Connected to host medievia.com

MUD LOGO
Welcome to MEDIEVIA! Leading the way in game development.

Enter in your player name or enter NEW if this is your first time here.
We only accept medieval names having nothing to do with real history.
By what name are you known on Medievia (or enter NEW)? psm
Did I get that right, psm (Y/N)? y

How you heard of us:
blah blah blah
Please tell us how you heard of us (0-9)> 6

New player.
Give me a password for psm: password is hidden
Please retype password:
What is your sex (M/F)? m

blah blah blah
and ultimately achieve the coveted status of a hero.
Type help <classname> for more information (e.g. help warrior)
Select a class [Warrior Cleric Magic-User Thief]: cleric
Your gain is: 9/51 hp, 9/109 m, 10/320 mv 3/28 prac.

We ask that all characters have a valid E-Mail address so that we can send
two helpful startup emails and verify forgotten passwords. We will not send
blah blah blah
WE DO NOT ACCEPT PLAYERS 13 YEARS OF AGE OR UNDER. BY ENTERING YOUR EMAIL
ADDRESS YOU VERIFY THAT YOU ARE 14 YEARS OR OLDER.

blah blah blah
Enter E-Mail Address: something@email.com

Is "something@email.com" your E-Mail address(y/n)? y

Would you like us to send you a small manual and other information useful
to new players via E-Mail right now(y/n) n

Would you like a tutorial that'll teach you some of the fundamentals of playing Medievia (y/n)?n

Medievia has full ANSI color capability. (Use COLOR command in the game)
Do you have ANSI COLOR on and want to see our color Title(y/n)? n

... and that's it, nothing happens. zMUD thinks i am still connected, but nothing comes. if i type something, i see the echo, but also nothing happens.
while at this stage, i tried to ping it from the edit menu in the charracter window but zMUD could not reach it. the only thing i can do, is to close the connection. the thing, what's strange about it is, that, when i connected the first time, i came a bit further until it froze. i tried other mud-clients and even telnet, but still, nothing happens.

i live in europe/austria, useing DSL. while zMUD has it's usual access fiolations once in a while, something like that never happened before.
did anyone ever experieced something simmilar?

thx for any help

GURU Joined: 10 Oct 2000 Posts: 4379 Location: USA

If other MUD clients and telnet have the same problem, then we can safely assume the problem is not with zMUD, no? the problem might be somewhere else, like with the MUD, the connection in between you and the MUD, maybe even Windows.

Kjata

Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2002 11:05 pm

I can safely rule out the MUD itself, just double checked the creation section with a couple new chars. I'm afraid to say I think it may be a windoze problem. Hrm....are all your drivers up to date?

Avatar Tintagel of Medievia
Dare you enter?

Novice Joined: 19 Jan 2002 Posts: 34 Location: Austria

i don't have a problem with any other mud. and allthought, i don't think, that it is a zMUD problem, i am asking you guys here too, because you are a nice bunch of people :)

i am on a PII 350 with 128MB ram running on windoze98 with DSL. i am useing a ZoneAlarm Pro Firewall (which doesn't seem to be the problem at all, because i tried it with the firewall turned off too).

I just thought, that someone might have had a simmilar experience to mine.

what makes this login problem so strange, is that i can log in, proceed normaly up to a certain point and then it just stops. i contacted the folks from medievia mud allready and they don't know either.

so i thought i ask the experienced mudders, if anyone ever had such probs too.
so please forgive me the off topic(if it is)

psm

Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2002 3:41 pm

Hrm, I'll foward it to the coders there. As one of Medievias long term zMUD users I'm stumped....

Avatar Tintagel of Medievia
Dare you enter?

Edited:
Just tried again with 2 new characters, which makes 8 tests overall, testing both ANSI color on and ANSI color off, both started up perfectly. The only thing I can think of at this stage is that you are getting a really bad link to medievia itself which is being overwhelmed by the small amount of data you get sent, andI do mean small amount of data. As for not being able to ping Medievia, no-one can. The best you can do is ping the server before Med, it's a measure that had to be taken after som little brats tried to ping flood the game itself.

If it's not your link, I can only assume that there may have been a problem with the IP range your ISP uses. Though that is normally stopped right away, before you even get asked to input a name.

Frankly I'm stumped as are the Gods of Medievia, of which I am one. I replied to your initial email.

Avatar Tintagel of Medievia
Enignon of Medievia, Client Consultant and World Builder.

Beginner Joined: 01 Dec 2000 Posts: 17 Location: USA

I have actually noticed this happen several times on different muds over the years. I don't know what causes it, but since it only happened at the end of chargen I never really bothered with it. Can't really offer up any help other than 'yes, I've noticed this behavior on other muds before'.

(FWIW I play mostly diku/smaug muds.)

Cyrn

Novice Joined: 19 Jan 2002 Posts: 34 Location: Austria

well, it seems, that it really is something between ISPs.
and guess what, noone feels responsible for the problems...

but the sad thing is, that even on the higher level support, of a big and "professional" ISP, nobody really knows somthing about telnet clients.
most people i know, that roam the internet in a more casual manner are more professional then the average guy from a support hot line.