can you explain that more fully please?
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Looks like there's another network outage
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That looks way too complex for my poor brain. I'll consult my sons on it next time I see them
Meantime I'll maybe try editing my hosts file, or just carry on doing housework till it's fixed.
I can't figure out where to put what and such... im not computer smart at all.. will EA have this fixed soon? anyone know?
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Fishy McHook
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we are hit once again.
I had the same problem, edited the file mentioned and I can login again! 
oki, sorted, edited the hosts file. thanks
Please explain for us all why it is important to remove this once it's fixed.
Please explain for us all why it is important to remove this once it's fixed.
Sorry Petra, it's a bit over my head too... he just leaned over my shoulder and clickety-clickety "try that and see if it works, honey" tada login successful magic stuff, then told me to post here in case it helped someone else
hehe no worries, DJaD posted a link
Because the login ip may change in future, which would cause the hosts entry to referense to an incorrect ip, while the domain through usual dns links to the right one.
That would be bad, Especially if people forgot they changed their host file. They'd be pulling their hair out wondering why it isn't working. And reinstalling UO wouldn't fix it either!
Indeed!
Thank you.
I had pretty much guessed that, but it's always wise to have it actually said.
I had pretty much guessed that, but it's always wise to have it actually said.
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Bella
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Wonder when this will be fixed. I don't want to change files and whatnot, I'd rather just wait for the team to fix it up.
I tried that host editing but can only save to documents as .txt
Than i copied the old host file to my documents to have it save to be able to replace if something goes wrong
than i copied the new host to the etc folder and renamed it to host
It stays a .txt file and seems to not work - at least here, i cant login..
what am i doing wrong?
W7Pro32bit here...
Than i copied the old host file to my documents to have it save to be able to replace if something goes wrong
than i copied the new host to the etc folder and renamed it to host
It stays a .txt file and seems to not work - at least here, i cant login..
what am i doing wrong?
W7Pro32bit here...
Try Gareth's walk through, it may be clearer
Fix UO Connection (Windows 7 & XP) | Stratics Forums
THANK YOU - it only works like that and all good now!!
I just figured its simple and i just wasnt awake enough in my head yet its totaly clear you need to open up as ADMIN to change a system file hehe
Damn me
TXS PETRA and TXS GARETH!!!
If you can't see the .txt extension - open up folder options, on the view tab scroll down and deselect 'hide known extensions'
Then just delete the .txt from the filename and save it as 'hosts' with no extension
From a man who knows, there is only so much house work that can be done before you go insane. Fix your file and log in and relax. Im sure you deserve it
Hi we still out in uk i am not bothering with all this change server things,this is the second time in 2 weeks getting to the point i begin to depair for this game as it seems to be in a poor state,played 6 years and i am really at the point of moving on to new pastures.Poor events,crashes at events and when you complain i am told to rum game with no sound at events and turn everything on my new pc of to get game to run at events lol i can play every other game at full rez???.Can they not just fix things ?
I'm not sure you can hold Bioware/Mythic responsible for the weather.
Well on my old XP toaster it worked...My new windows 7 machine i just bought yesterday...well that didnt work out...Any ideas? any? I edited in notepad exactly how i did it on my xp machine
try reading Gareth's thread, linked above.
Didn't have any problems logging in just now or the last time we had a DNS-related issue a week or so ago from out in the western part of the U.S. Sounds more and more like this is probably an east coast U.S. - western European problem, probably weather-related.
I am in Western Europe and play Pacific - we truly have problems here in Central/Western Europe with dns and the net itselfe we have summer storms here...but i dont think this should have any impact on server not located in Central/Western Europe....but i was reading the news you have troubles with the weather in the US too...
I'm in Thailand and I can't log in to Sonoma, and the weather's fine here.
Please read post #45 in this thread, posted by Basara to understand where the weather relates to this problem.
No, but you can hold Bioware/Mythic responsible for taking localized events into account when designing their network infrastructure...
Ya know, reliability? Redundancy, as mentioned earlier in the thread?
Trying to comprehend why weather in East Coast USA would affect me in Thailand trying to hook to a California server.
Because first you have to log in with your account, before you get to choosing a server, which means the log in server, in Fairfax.
My Win7 notepad doesn't come with a search box in the upper right corner, and i'm having the same issue of not being able to save the Hosts file.
Wow, ok, had no idea about that. I figured the entire process was handled at each server. Thanks for clearing that up.
I've tried the workaround but the first line doesn't work for me, I have no search box at the upper right hand corner in my notepad. I know, I must just be dumb, please 'scuse all the silly questions.
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Tragger
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Because your computer asks to connect to login.ultimaonline.com. It asks the DNS servers configured in your network settings or via DHCP. They either reply with the IP they have locally cached (why some people work and some don't) or they have to go to the public servers to get that information.
ultimaonline.com. 172800 IN NS ns.eamythic.com.
ultimaonline.com. 172800 IN NS ns2.eamythic.com.
This says that ns.eamythic.com and ns2.eamythic.com have authoritative information about the domain ultimaonline.com.
ns.eamythic.com has address 70.166.64.70
ns2.eamythic.com has address 70.166.64.72
These are the IP addresses of those nameservers. Notice they are 2 IP addresses apart. Standard practice is to put at least one nameserver physically and logically somewhere else on the Internet.
Here is the last hop before timeouts going to those IP Addresses.
11 mrfddsrj02-ae0.0.rd.dc.cox.net (68.1.1.7) 47.993 ms 48.144 ms mrfddsrj01-ae0.0.rd.dc.cox.net (68.1.1.5) 49.726 ms
So a failure on the east coast could kill the network that hosts both of those servers, which is why you can't access the network in Cali to play your game.
If they had just used their registrar to handle DNS or put one of the DNS servers on the west coast, then everything would still be operational.
Some say google dns works, but I'll warn you that 8.8.8.8 (google dns) is an anycast address. Only some of their DNS servers have the IP address cached. Others do not. Eventually they will all timeout.
This one times out in 33,801 seconds from now.
login.ultimaonline.com. 33801 IN A 63.117.27.168
login.ultimaonline.com. 33801 IN A 63.117.27.169
Edit: Luckily since I play, all the customers that use my ISP no longer have issues. I went ahead and configured our ISP servers to know about login.ultimaonline.com without asking the public dns servers. Of course, I'll also have to clear that out once the issues is resolved.
To save the hosts file you must first open notepad 'as adminstrator' then open the file
Hopefully this might help:
Hopefully this might help:
Ok I"m clearly stupid, and need an exact order of steps, as that's not working for me either. When I click on Notepad and Run as Admin, it opens notepad. then if I do a search for the hosts file, once I find it and dbl click it, its asking what program to open it with. Well, Notepad is already open from running it as Admin. So I'm lost...
oki, try this.
open notepad, run as adminstrator
Then 'file' 'open'
then drop down the box 'text documents' and choose 'all files'
them paste into 'file name' C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts
click 'open'
open notepad, run as adminstrator
Then 'file' 'open'
then drop down the box 'text documents' and choose 'all files'
them paste into 'file name' C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts
click 'open'
I do believe I love you, I hope my wife never sees this. Thank you Petra...
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Adrenalin
Guest
Yet another total newb.
I tried to follow the steps as best I could and when it didn't work, I tried again. This is what I have done, maybe you could show me where I screwed up.
Manually selected the file location by clicking Computer, Windows, System32, drivers then etc. In this window I see hosts along with 4 other files. Hosts under name followed by date modified and then under type shows text document. It would not allow me to save the edit and says to contact administrator. Unsure if what follows is correct or not and after making a backup copy of the original hosts file, I create another copy of the hosts file as illustrated in the link above but on my desktop. Going back to the original location, I delete the original hosts file and paste in the edited copy and then as Administrator it allows me to save it. I try to log in and get the same message.
With that said, on my system it appears a little differently than in the link above. There are "#" and a space prior to every line in my original hosts file. I tried it with and without the "#" and even tried to line up the first number of the IP address with the above.
Where "all" did I go wrong?
edit: Using windows 7
I tried to follow the steps as best I could and when it didn't work, I tried again. This is what I have done, maybe you could show me where I screwed up.
Manually selected the file location by clicking Computer, Windows, System32, drivers then etc. In this window I see hosts along with 4 other files. Hosts under name followed by date modified and then under type shows text document. It would not allow me to save the edit and says to contact administrator. Unsure if what follows is correct or not and after making a backup copy of the original hosts file, I create another copy of the hosts file as illustrated in the link above but on my desktop. Going back to the original location, I delete the original hosts file and paste in the edited copy and then as Administrator it allows me to save it. I try to log in and get the same message.
With that said, on my system it appears a little differently than in the link above. There are "#" and a space prior to every line in my original hosts file. I tried it with and without the "#" and even tried to line up the first number of the IP address with the above.
Where "all" did I go wrong?
edit: Using windows 7
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Tragger
Guest
See post #91. Those are the most concise instructions.
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Adrenalin
Guest
The second pic shows one of the ways I edited the file but I also tried by adding it like this
I followed the instructions in post 91.... In my mind that is!
Still not connecting. I tried connecting thru UOAssist and straight thru UO
what does the file actually say now?
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Adrenalin
Guest
it appears just as it shows in the 3rd pic.
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Tragger
Guest
You have the wrong IP Address.
It's 63.117.27.169 not 63.117.27.168. Other than that, the second pic was the correct one.