Lobby (again) down

[Leo]

What the title says. Btw, fix this once and for all, it's getting annoying.

[hong620]

Ya. It's Down again. :C

[~Niko~]

What about adding alternate sites where download the lobby? So if one fails, there are others.

[EnEsCe]

There are plenty of alternative lobbies, but everyone is too ignorant to use the search function or google.

http://www.game-monitor.com/search.php?game=soldat
http://soldathq.com/servers.php

[Leo]

There are plenty of alternative lobbies, but everyone is too ignorant to use the search function or google.

http://www.game-monitor.com/search.php?game=soldat
http://soldathq.com/servers.php

Exactly, the majority of players don't even know about these forums or they don't care.

[~Niko~]

I would like to know how to add these URL's to lobby_servers.txt file... or I am not able to do such thing?

[Toumaz]

I would like to know how to add these URL's to lobby_servers.txt file... or I am not able to do such thing?

...did you click the links? Doesn't those on their own suffice as a backup alternative?

And no.

[Biscuiteer]

There are plenty of alternative lobbies, but everyone is too ignorant to use the search function or google.

http://www.game-monitor.com/search.php?game=soldat
http://soldathq.com/servers.php

Or maybe those two are not up to par for the lobby itself; ie. there is no good replacement for the lobby (so far). Game Monitor only shows 44 servers in the list, and soldathq shows them all but they are all supposedly empty - even when the server details say otherwise. IF SoldatHQ has that problem fixed, then its an awesome alternative - but until then the lobby needs to be fixed.

[~Niko~]

I would like to know how to add these URL's to lobby_servers.txt file... or I am not able to do such thing?

...did you click the links? Doesn't those on their own suffice as a backup alternative?

And no.

Sure I clicked them. Though I did not find a server that likes me. I meant if I am able to add these to the Soldat's Request servers to look for servers in more than one site adding these URL's...

[-Major-]

all games suffer when the lobby server goes down. sure, bigger games got greater security and backup alternatives. but soldat is a small (but yet brilliant) game, thus few back up alternatives.

if I'm not wrong, selfkill had some lobby server backup, this might just have been a fix from previous lobby server failures.

[FliesLikeABrick]

Here is an explanation of what is going on, so that the mindless bitching can stop:

Tusday morning, around 8am my firewall crashed.  I don't know why.  Around 6-8 hours later, we got it back up, and then within the next hour or two we switched the firewall to new hardware.  This new hardware has crashed twice now and I am working on finding out what is causing it.  If I cannot find out what is causing it within the next 24 hours or so (e.g. if it keeps crashing regardless of what I try) I will work on a more drastic change that will result in a permanent solution.

It is an intermittent problem so it is extremely hard for me to track down, I have no way of just causing it to happen instantly for troubleshooting purposes. 

The lobby is still running in a virtual machine on a private network.  This firewall performs a lot of tasks for services, servers and networks that I administer.  One of those tasks is translating outside requests to the internal network for the lobby.

I am full aware of the problem and have been working on it as much as I can.  It hasn't been down all that often/long so far and it hasn't crashed in ~ 6 hours or so now.  I will keep monitoring it and hopefully end up with a permanent solution soon.