Regarding July 20 "SERVER INSPECTION" incident

disconnected2007 · **Joined:** Jun 2007 **Posts:** 28

Many poeple i believe are experiencing "server inspection" for at least 48 hours since july 20. At the beginning i thought its my network problem i called my internet provider they said they received some reports regarding people not being able to run the SRO client, more than that they cannot even browse sro website. Most of them are from USA/Canada, whats going to with joymax?? My internet provider test http://www.silkroadonline.net , they cannot access into it too. Did Joymax block all the N.America access??

I have another korean online game too, SAME problem with ISRO... whats the heck with Korean??

Apocalypse57 · **Joined:** Jul 2006 **Posts:** 141 **Location:**

im in montreal canada and i have no problem playing, or looking at the website.... Oh and BTW your url has a comma at the end it's supposed to be http://www.silkroadonline.net

_Shinigami_ · **Joined:** May 2007 **Posts:** 2191 **Location:**

lol what? i could run isro since after the inspection

disconnected2007 · **Joined:** Jun 2007 **Posts:** 28

Apocalypse57 wrote:

im in montreal canada and i have no problem playing, or looking at the website.... Oh and BTW your url has a comma at the end it's supposed to be http://www.silkroadonline.net

fixed the post, but the site wont work here even with correct address

Apocalypse57 · **Joined:** Jul 2006 **Posts:** 141 **Location:**

thts wierd?

zelzin · **Joined:** Apr 2006 **Posts:** 388

http://121.128.133.11/ - Does that work for you?

Juicy · **Joined:** Sep 2006 **Posts:** 1233

not really, u can go to the site but nothing loads only text

disconnected2007 · **Joined:** Jun 2007 **Posts:** 28

zelzin wrote:

http://121.128.133.11/ - Does that work for you?

OH YES!!! What have u done??? i can see the web now..BUT just the image didnt load

zelzin · **Joined:** Apr 2006 **Posts:** 388

Your ISP is having DNS issues.

If you find the IP address for the game servers and add them to your host file you'll be able to play again.

I'd also report this to JM.

Juicy · **Joined:** Sep 2006 **Posts:** 1233

can you find me the ip for rome if thats what u mean

disconnected2007 · **Joined:** Jun 2007 **Posts:** 28

zelzin wrote:

Your ISP is having DNS issues.

If you find the IP address for the game servers and add them to your host file you'll be able to play again.

I'd also report this to JM.

im noob to IT thing or network thing..what DNS means? what shouid i do now?

zelzin · **Joined:** Apr 2006 **Posts:** 388

You don't need the IP address for the actual server.

I'll see what I can do...

Edit:

Open your host file with notepad. Located at "C:/WINDOWS/System32/drivers/etc/host".

It should look something like this:

Code:

# Copyright (c) 1993-2006 Microsoft Corp.
#
# This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows.
#
# This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. Each
# entry should be kept on an individual line. The IP address should
# be placed in the first column followed by the corresponding host name.
# The IP address and the host name should be separated by at least one
# space.
#
# Additionally, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual
# lines or following the machine name denoted by a '#' symbol.
#
# For example:
#
#      102.54.94.97     rhino.acme.com          # source server
#       38.25.63.10     x.acme.com              # x client host

127.0.0.1       localhost

Add this to the end of the file (below the localhost entry):

Code:

121.128.133.26 gwgt1.joymax.com

Hopefully that will allow you to connect. Remember if this IP address ever changes again you'll have to edit the file again.

ciddy · **Joined:** Dec 2006 **Posts:** 864 **Location:**

Same problem...

i have cable, but i'm at china >_>

knicksfan123 · **Joined:** Jul 2007 **Posts:** 33 **Location:** usa

you need to lube up your mother board. That way your electrons will flow faster and your internet speeds will be greatly boosted resulting in the uber pwnserss of playing and grinding on sros ers.

QuickSandSlowly · **Joined:** Jul 2007 **Posts:** 27

zelzin wrote:

You don't need the IP address for the actual server.

I'll see what I can do...

Edit:

Open your host file with notepad. Located at "C:/WINDOWS/System32/drivers/etc/host".

Hopefully that will allow you to connect. Remember if this IP address ever changes again you'll have to edit the file again.

I've tried that several times it might work for some people, but most of the times it does not solve the problem.

knicksfan123 · **Joined:** Jul 2007 **Posts:** 33 **Location:** usa

you need to lube up your mother board. That way your electrons will flow faster and your internet speeds will be greatly boosted resulting in the uber pwnserss of playing and grinding on sros ers.

zelzin · **Joined:** Apr 2006 **Posts:** 388

It's not meant to solve the problem. It's a temporary fix.

For it to be solved the ISP needs to correct the DNS bit.

@knicksfan123 - Thanks for the lame double post.

QuickSandSlowly · **Joined:** Jul 2007 **Posts:** 27

zelzin wrote:

It's not meant to solve the problem. It's a temporary fix.

For it to be solved the ISP needs to correct the DNS bit.

It fixes nothing, sorry.

zelzin · **Joined:** Apr 2006 **Posts:** 388

Worked for me when I had DNS issues.

Sorry it doesn't do anything for you.

disconnected2007 · **Joined:** Jun 2007 **Posts:** 28

if i am going to phone my ISP. what should i tell them ?? and tell them what to fix??

zelzin · **Joined:** Apr 2006 **Posts:** 388

Just tell them what you know.

You can connect to the site with the IP address but not the actual url.

DNS refresh please!

Juicy · **Joined:** Sep 2006 **Posts:** 1233

when i try edit that hosts file i get "Cannot create the C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts file. Make sure the path and file name are correct."

MrH · **Joined:** Mar 2007 **Posts:** 330 **Location:**

If you ping http://www.silkroadonline.net what is the return IP address? Is it different from the one posted above?

If so then there is a DNS replication/cache issue within your ISP's DNS servers.

They could be possibly not clearing there dns caches often enough, or getting information from a bad server. I'm not sure, but entering the hostname into your hosts file will resolve the problem. Your PC by default checks the hosts file first before contacting your DNS server.

MrH · **Joined:** Mar 2007 **Posts:** 330 **Location:**

disconnected2007 wrote:

Many poeple i believe are experiencing "server inspection" for at least 48 hours since july 20. At the beginning i thought its my network problem i called my internet provider they said they received some reports regarding people not being able to run the SRO client, more than that they cannot even browse sro website. Most of them are from USA/Canada, whats going to with joymax?? My internet provider test http://www.silkroadonline.net , they cannot access into it too. Did Joymax block all the N.America access??

I have another korean online game too, SAME problem with ISRO... whats the heck with Korean??

By the way, what is your ISP's name?

Can you please go to Start -> Run -> type CMD

Black box will open, type ipconfig/all and tell me the IP address of DHCP server so I can see whats going on?

sama98b · **Joined:** Feb 2007 **Posts:** 1428 **Location:**

just use opendns not the one suplied by isp

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