Problems connecting to FAF (Establishing connection ...)

[HighMax]

Hi,

Since five days or so I couldn't connect to the FAF lobby, when I try to it keeps telling "Establishing connection..." but it doesn't ever connect, no error message appears, and the last two days I have to try several times before I could connect, because most of the time that same problem occurs, it just keeps saying "establishing connection" :/

I am the only one to have this problem ? Is it from me or inherent to the lobby ? How to solve it ?

Thx.

[Ze_PilOt]

Check your firewall, antivirus, ...

It's one of these, or you have a very, very old build of the lobby.

If the last time we've switched the server you've edited the hosts file even I told it was a very bad idea, you probably want to remove the changes too as it can produce your problems.

[OoshR32]

I installed "FAForeverLobby-600.msi" only a week ago, and been having the same problem since the server failure, I was successfully connecting regularly up until then.
I just went and installed "FAForeverLobby-0.8.4.msi" and tried again but no luck. Nothing else has changed my end.

My gut feeling is it's trying to connect to the old server. How can I force it on to the new one?

[Ze_PilOt]

ping direct.faforever.com and tell me the IP you see.

[OoshR32]

C:\Users\Oosh>ping direct.faforever.com

Pinging faforever.com [91.121.153.175] with 32 bytes of data:
General failure.
General failure.
General failure.
General failure.

Ping statistics for 91.121.153.175:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss),

[Ze_PilOt]

The IP is right.
Can you do a tracert direct.faforever.com and post the result ?

I also don't understand how you can reach the forum.

[OoshR32]

C:\Users\Oosh>tracert direct.faforever.com

Tracing route to faforever.com [91.121.153.175]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 General failure.

Trace complete.

[OoshR32]

I just figured it out!

That IP range is on PeerBlock's block list, under "OVH SAS" whatever that means.
As I had it configured to allow all HTTP traffic I could access the website, forums, etc. but nothing else.

I'll just add an exception and all will be well.

Thanks for your help.

[HighMax]

I didn't touch anything, and I don't even know how to do that, also I have no antivirus, and I didn't change the firewall, and it used to work correctly before that period, the problems might have started with the 0.8.1 lobby update

Btw it looks like it's working better now

Thx anyway

[Ze_PilOt]

No, it's related to the fact that we are hosted on OVH now. And that some stupid people added it a blocklist because they allow the filtering of UDP to avoid flooders.

No idea what is the purpose of peerblock actually. They are militing for net neutrality by filtering some websites ? Pretty stupid in my opinion.