UKGPL Season 38 (Spring 2021) 1967 F1 Sprint (Works) - Bathurst - May 16

[GregT]

I was booted with about 5 minutes to go. I tried many times to reconnect. I turned my head for 20-30 seconds and saw many others had tried or succeeded in reconnecting. I tried again only to get the server is not accepting connections message.

[Cookie]

Sorry, I've no idea about a changing IP? IMO impossible...

I have no fixed IP so you will allways have to look for the IP at igor.

BUT

YES there was a weird moment ~ 6-7 min Q to go, when my client screen went black for 2 sec... maybe a net hickup?

But also possible someone joined with 36fps via IP!!!

[Billy Nobrakes]

Andreas,
Very sorry to hear your news. Hopefully you will make a swift recovery.

[fpolicardi]

I was booted with about 5 minutes to go. I tried many times to reconnect. I turned my head for 20-30 seconds and saw many others had tried or succeeded in reconnecting. I tried again only to get the server is not accepting connections message.

I got the same and a "Not valid state" on practice status then got booted. Then joined Igor chat and after a couple of try I rejoined at the end of Q. I think that it's the first time that happened to me in 22 years.
We already have a rerun at Hockenheim, if we decide to withdraw this race I have no problem.

[Rainier]

Andreas,
Very sorry to hear your news. Hopefully you will make a swift recovery.

Andreas, I can't say better than Billy.
See you soon on the tracks !

[bagrupp]

I also had trouble reconnecting.

In the end i was also not able to qualify and calculate fuel.
I did not put enough fuel in the car. for a save finish i would have taken 12 more  liters with me.
So i lost 2 places in the end. if you decide to rerun, its ok.

Gute Besserung, Andreas.

[Cookie]

I do host several races per week ...

This 67 Works grid seems to have some special problems
- there are people joining and chatting that are not authorised to this series. Why do they have our PW?
- lots of driver use IP joining. Why? It's only necessary if you have a problematic gpl install...
- my server is suspected to be to blame for the disaster


so I hereby withdraw my offer to host this series

[GregT]

I do host several races per week ...

This 67 Works grid seems to have some special problems
- there are people joining and chatting that are not authorised to this series. Why do they have our PW?
- lots of driver use IP joining. Why? It's only necessary if you have a problematic gpl install...
- my server is suspected to be to blame for the disaster


so I hereby withdraw my offer to host this series

It may be a GPL server can only handle 2 continents worth of drivers. 3 continents may be too much. Your server has been fine on Wednesdays and Fridays but it's not been kind to me on Sunday.  I would expect me to be dropped before most others since the only drivers further from the server than me would be the South Americans.

It's a shame you withdraw your offer. It may have nothing to do with your server.

[fpolicardi]

I do host several races per week ...

This 67 Works grid seems to have some special problems
- there are people joining and chatting that are not authorised to this series. Why do they have our PW?
- lots of driver use IP joining. Why? It's only necessary if you have a problematic gpl install...
- my server is suspected to be to blame for the disaster


so I hereby withdraw my offer to host this series

Axel I hope my comments wasn't the cause. I'm an IT man since '78 and what I wrote was only to help to find what happened. I hosted for many years UKGPL on T7 servers and I know what it means, and I thank you a lot for your server support and frequently technician help on forum. 

[Cookie]

I am confused myself and think maybe for this joint venture races the server should be more centralized in the UK...

I looked into my server replay - when I did my last practice laps I found several glitches as if the server is attacked,
there are "warps" of me that are not possible as I can't warp sitting 5m to the server.

Biggest warp was about 2sec long when I was in those uphill esses and I stuck in tirewall...

Seems nothing to do with countries as Joao won, in Hockenheim race most germans discoed and in this race all germans stayed on server...

[bagrupp]

From my second residence i join via ip (not yesterday) because igor is broken,
reinstall did not help and i miss the time to completly drop & reinstall the system.

[Arf Arf Arf]

I joined by IP last night only because of the issues I had an hour before the race which appeared to be at my end, because I couldn't play GPL locally or on the server. I was unable to join via Igor as I usually do. I validated that I had the right settings (60fps etc) with Baab before joining. I got several laps in before I was thrown out, so I hope that means I was not the problem. I plan to try and work out how to make things work as normal this week, and that means that I probably won't even try to enter the 65 race tomorrow.

If someone is sharing the PW that's pretty poor show, it is inconsiderate and makes it difficult for everyone, never mind poor Axel who is taking all the pressure. I had not noticed unauthorised people joining the chat -s there any chances that they are the same people 'attacking' the server, or just messing things up by their very presence? Could we try something like not posting the race PW in the thread, and giving it out in iGor at race time?

I can't imagine it's much fun for you Axel, but we are very grateful for all the support you have given the series. I hope we can work things out.

Arf

[Cookie]

I found the culprit in my routers log:

Yes the providers connection was interrupted for some seconds and the IP changed.

But how was it possible that some drivers did not disco? Or was it only me? My server did not stop working and kept the data

16.05.21
22:25:52
Zeitüberschreitung bei der PPP-Aushandlung.

until

16.05.21
22:26:06
DSL-Synchronisierung beginnt (Training).

[AnGex]

Thank you all for your good and kind words!

I am out of hospital again and back on track. 

Those who do not fight    have already lost.

So see you in tonights 65 Race.

[PaulV]

Great news Andreas.

Good luck for tonight's race.