Master server + website outage: May 22nd 21:00 UTC to May 23rd 07:00 UTC

[tomreyn]

Hi,

we've received the following announcement from our hosting provider today:

Unfortunately I need to announce another outage which will take place during the night from May 22nd to 23rd (Tue to Wed in the coming week). This outage is due to a physical relocation of the server hardware to a new colocation site in Falkenstein (Thuringa) in Germany. The outage will start at 22:00 local time (21:00 UTC) and last up to 08:00 local time (07:00 UTC). The outage may last considerably shorter and may already end in the early nighttime, but this depends on how streamlined the relocation process will be.

So... sorry for ths upcoming outage. This affects availability of master server, megaglest.org website as well as the Game Mods menu. The server doesn't get moved too often ;-) so I guess this longer outage is fine, after all it's an in-advance notification. We'll see how it turns out.

Thanks for flying MegaGlest ornithopters,

Tom

[tomreyn]

Servers are currently down due to this outage.

If you would like to play on the dedicated servers in the meantime, please put our updated servers.ini file into your UserData_Root directory. That's where the UserData Start menu shortcut points to on Windows or ~/.megaglest/ on Linux. You can safely overwrite an existing file of the same name.
On the next start of MegaGlest, select New Game, then LAN Game, then set server type to previous, choose your preferred server and connect.

Another way to connect to any known servers is to run MegaGlest with additional command line options. For example, to connect to the server known as engineer2, use, on Linux:

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./megaglest --connecthost=78.47.225.60 --use-ports=61357,61457
... or on Windows:

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megaglest.exe --connecthost=78.47.225.60 --use-ports=61357,61457

[tomreyn]

We're back.