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hi there

could please someone of the admins look at the auth server. i guess there is a problem.
not possible to connect to auth.aa25.org to see server list.

and with the messages at shoutbox i guess playing aa2 is not possible at the moment.

thanks

we do play aa4 - proving ground I guess.

So what if he goes on holiday and this happens ? Then we are pretty much fucked 

Lord-of-War 

shit happend, but would be good to fix this situation later when he is back, right?
teddy, do you know where this auth server is running. on Nicks end?

and as i did say often: we should have a automatic backup system, which does work.

thanks Nick for the information. I would like to have that backup system. because in the last 4 weeks it happened a lot with that not available.

ELiZ is the only one that can fix the issue (sometimes it's not even up to him but the hoster). Complaining about it won't do anything, nor does asking for a backup system that would be complex and a royal pain to setup, if even possible. It's a free game being kept alive on life support by a couple of people, it's not life & death, just be patient and wait.

I don't know if anyone else remembers but when Jonny took the game down, we were scrambling to get it set back up with backups of the auth server. It wasn't until Jonny came back a few days later to help ELiZ get it setup on a new host and then even a few days after that that everything was working ok. There's custom commandline Linux stuff and things cobbled together to make it work. While ELiZ has worked to make it more reliable, I'd bet that it's still not as near good as it could be, especially if written in a modern and lean language. The problem is, we simply don't have the knowledge and people to undertake a rewrite. It's hard to find reliable, knowledgeable and trustworthy people that will work for free.

ELiZ is the only one that can fix the issue (sometimes it's not even up to him but the hoster). Complaining about it won't do anything, nor does asking for a backup system that would be complex and a royal pain to setup, if even possible. It's a free game being kept alive on life support by a couple of people, it's not life & death, just be patient and wait.

I don't know if anyone else remembers but when Jonny took the game down, we were scrambling to get it set back up with backups of the auth server. It wasn't until Jonny came back a few days later to help ELiZ get it setup on a new host and then even a few days after that that everything was working ok. There's custom commandline Linux stuff and things cobbled together to make it work. While ELiZ has worked to make it more reliable, I'd bet that it's still not as near good as it could be, especially if written in a modern and lean language. The problem is, we simply don't have the knowledge and people to undertake a rewrite. It's hard to find reliable, knowledgeable and trustworthy people that will work for free.

I all those years ther are sum idears that need specialization and game knowledge. 
Idears that kan bring this game to a higher level. (like my little hope about the coops)
And you guys must have to a list for a good developer to get him ore them ore one real business game maker intressted !!
Have you thought about to write letters to  game makers, if they can help in certain problems.
If you can make them intrest to make this game better , the basis is good new idears and inputh is needed to
make wishes come trow!!
 

maybe you can put that knowledge to start the auth system to other admins ?

The information has been there for other admins as well for a good while.