Thus spake Smackface via messages:
Could not open connection to host on port 5050 it says.
Something is blocking you from connecting to our game server. Possible
culprits are: a firewall on your machine, your router, your ISP.
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J.
Thus spake Smackface via messages:
Could not open connection to host on port 5050 it says.
Something is blocking you from connecting to our game server. Possible
culprits are: a firewall on your machine, your router, your ISP.
–
J.
I can use P2P over port 5050 just fine, however that is using Hamachi
Sorry I said that earlier.
I did open the port on my machine, tried it again, I can still connect to other users over port 5050, but I can not telnet to your server over 5050. I do have the outbound set to accept connections on any, and the inbound only if it is secure. If there is anything else I can do, since it doesn’t seem to be the port itself, I’d appreciate it. Otherwise, I will be trying to delete all Vassal folders I can find and trying again.
Before I do so however, I feel it is worth asking if there would be some way for me to connect to your server(s) using Hamachi?
Thus spake Smackface via messages:
“Smackface” wrote:
I can use P2P over port 5050 just fine, however that is using
HamachiSorry I said that earlier.
I did open the port on my machine, tried it again, I can still connect
to other users over port 5050, but I can not telnet to your server over
5050. I do have the outbound set to accept connections on any, and the
inbound only if it is secure. If there is anything else I can do, since
it doesn’t seem to be the port itself, I’d appreciate it. Otherwise, I
will be trying to delete all Vassal folders I can find and trying again.
You don’t need to open any inbound ports on your end for communication
with our game server. Our game server doesn’t contact you—you contact
it.
If you can’t telnet to game.vassalengine.org:5050, then your problem
has nothing to do with VASSAL. Reinstalling VASSAL will not help, as
you are having a connectivity problem, not a problem with the program.
It is a waste of time to reinstall.
Can you ping game.vassalengine.org?
Before I do so however, I feel it is worth asking if there would be some
way for me to connect to your server(s) using Hamachi?
No idea. What is it?
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J.
Hamachi is a sort of port tunelling service allowing a sort of LAN connection between two machines. I can ping using cmd, telnetting says it can’t open a port 23 connection. telnetting to game.vassalengine.org:5050 says connection error, can not open connection to host port 23.
Thus spake Smackface via messages:
Hamachi is a sort of port tunelling service allowing a sort of LAN
connection between two machines.
Does it need to be running on both ends?
I can ping using cmd, telnetting says it can’t open a port 23
connection.
No, that’s expected. We don’t have port 23 open.
telnetting to
game.vassalengine.org:5050 says connection error, can not open
connection to host port 23.
That’s not the right syntax for telnetting to a port other than the
default 23. I think you need something like:
telnet game.vassalengine.org 5050
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J.
Yes it needs to be running on both sides. Also it can’t complete the telnet that way. It literally sits there for hours doing nothing, which may be causing the time out for connection. I have no idea what could be causing the lack of response, as I left the computer off sleep mode for several hours with no results after typing “o game.vassalengine.org 5050”. I’d also like to take the time to thank you for the continued support.
Thus spake Smackface via messages:
Yes it needs to be running on both sides. Also it can’t complete the
telnet that way. It literally sits there for hours doing nothing, which
may be causing the time out for connection. I have no idea what could be
causing the lack of response, as I left the computer off sleep mode for
several hours with no results
You should get a connection when telnetting to our game server within a
few seconds if it’s going to work at all.
after typing “o game.vassalengine.org 5050”.
What’s “o game.vassalengine.org 5050” supposed to do? I don’t recognize
“o” as a command.
If you have no firewall running on your system and your router is not
blocking you, then it’s likely to be your ISP who is the culprit.
–
J.
o is the command to open a connection, unless I’m misremembering. As I said before, I haven’t switched ISPs in years, and I’d been using VASSAL until about January of this year. I will check the logs from before to make sure I’m doing this right with opening a connection, and will report back.
Double checked, “o” is indeed the command to open a connection to hostname over [port here]
I tried connecting to the original target, game.vassal.org as follows:
“o game.vassal.org [5050]”, with the result of "…Could not open connection to the host, on port [5050]: Connect failed.
I then repeated the same, replacing “game.vassal.org [5050]” with “game.vassalengine.org [5050]”.
I then repeated the above process without bracketing the port number. I could not even finish the process in either case, as telnet seemed to freeze up every time I tried (5 times).
I proceeded to open up cmd and ping both this website and game.vassalengine.org, got fast results from both. If there are any other ports I could possibly try, or even a program I could try if you believe Hamachi will not work that would be great.
On a side note, am I connecting to an actual game server, or the machine hosting the servers? I apologize for my technological illiteracy, but I want to try to cover all the bases.
Further update, I downloaded 3.2.15, but it shows Vassal Version as 3.2.13
Uninstalling and then reinstalling doesn’t fix this.
Thus spake Smackface via messages:
Further update, I downloaded 3.2.15, but it shows Vassal Version as
3.2.13
If it shows 3.2.13 as the version, then you’re running 3.2.13, not
3.2.15.
–
J.
Thus spake Smackface via messages:
Double checked, “o” is indeed the command to open a connection to
hostname over [port here]I tried connecting to the original target, game.vassal.org as follows:
“o game.vassal.org [5050]”, with the result of "…Could not open
connection to the host, on port [5050]: Connect failed.
Is it really the correct syntax to have the port in square brackets?
I suspect that it should be ‘o game.vassal.org 5050’.
I then repeated the above process without bracketing the port number. I
could not even finish the process in either case, as telnet seemed to
freeze up every time I tried (5 times).
This is what I’d expect it to do, as we don’t have the default telnet
port, 23, open, nor is there anything running there on port 23.
I proceeded to open up cmd and ping both this website and
game.vassalengine.org, got fast results from both. If there are any
other ports I could possibly try, or even a program I could try if you
believe Hamachi will not work that would be great.
Port 22 is open, as is port 25.
On a side note, am I connecting to an actual game server, or the machine
hosting the servers? I apologize for my technological illiteracy, but I
want to try to cover all the bases.
game.vassal.org is our machine. The game server runs there on port 5050.
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J.