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How do I run the server?

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Posted by Moogle   (16 posts)  Bio
Date Reply #15 on Tue 23 Apr 2002 04:02 AM (UTC)
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Could not open a connection to localhost.
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Posted by Nick Gammon   Australia  (23,173 posts)  Bio   Forum Administrator
Date Reply #16 on Tue 23 Apr 2002 06:21 AM (UTC)
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No idea. It worked when I did it. "Could not open a connection" suggests the server is not up. When you run the server you should see a message like "redirecting output to log/game.log". Does that just stay there? I don't suppose you ctrl+c that window or anything?
- Nick Gammon

www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com
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Posted by Moogle   (16 posts)  Bio
Date Reply #17 on Tue 23 Apr 2002 10:28 AM (UTC)
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It's alwys the pleasent could not open connection. Frankly, I'm a little miffed, considering I followed everything you said to the letter.
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Posted by Nick Gammon   Australia  (23,173 posts)  Bio   Forum Administrator
Date Reply #18 on Tue 23 Apr 2002 09:48 PM (UTC)

Amended on Tue 23 Apr 2002 09:49 PM (UTC) by Nick Gammon

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I'm not sure what you want me to do about it, as I tried the exact file I suggested on the same operating system and it worked.

There are two things that could be wrong here:

1. The server didn't start up, or stay started up.
2. You are not connecting correctly with your client.

Based on your earlier questions "what is a client" and "what is a command window" I would guess you are not all that familiar with doing this, and thus you may be making some subtle mistake that isn't apparent in the posts here.

For example:


  • pressing Ctrl+C in the "server" window (or closing it in some way) so that the server stops running).
  • mis-typing the address for "localhost" or "4201" - there are "L"s, ones, zeros, and "oh"s in there. You have to get them all right.


What I suggest is getting around a friend who is familiar with computers and networking, who can check where the problem is.

For example, you could try opening a command window, and typing "netstat -a", to see if the server is up, and listening for connections. When I did that I saw this ...


C:\WINDOWS\Desktop>netstat -a

Active Connections

  Proto  Local Address          Foreign Address        State
  TCP    games:4201             GAMES:0                LISTENING
  TCP    games:1025             GAMES:0                LISTENING
  TCP    games:1025             BACALL:nbsession       ESTABLISHED
  TCP    games:137              GAMES:0                LISTENING
  TCP    games:138              GAMES:0                LISTENING
  TCP    games:nbsession        GAMES:0                LISTENING
  UDP    games:nbname           *:*
  UDP    games:nbdatagram       *:*


My PC is called "games". Note the entry for port 4201 that is "listening" - ie. waiting for a connection.
- Nick Gammon

www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com
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Posted by Moogle   (16 posts)  Bio
Date Reply #19 on Thu 25 Apr 2002 02:40 AM (UTC)
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I did that netstat -a command, and the text you showed never came up, looking over it carefully I noticed that it also never displayed the number 4201...
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Posted by Nick Gammon   Australia  (23,173 posts)  Bio   Forum Administrator
Date Reply #20 on Thu 25 Apr 2002 02:53 AM (UTC)
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You can email me a copy of the game.log file if you like - I'll see if I can spot something.
- Nick Gammon

www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com
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Posted by Moogle   (16 posts)  Bio
Date Reply #21 on Thu 25 Apr 2002 06:39 AM (UTC)
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It's in the mail, hopefully you'll be able to find out what the problem is.
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Posted by Moogle   (16 posts)  Bio
Date Reply #22 on Thu 25 Apr 2002 11:58 AM (UTC)
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Ok, when I startup pennmush.exe it says:
Redirecting output to: log\game.log

Then with pennmush.exe open, I try to login with Wyrmnet (the client I choose now there's a completely new message:

Unable to Connect to Host.
The attempt to connect was rejected.

Any thoughts?
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Posted by Moogle   (16 posts)  Bio
Date Reply #23 on Fri 26 Apr 2002 04:07 PM (UTC)
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*does happy dance* Got it working!!
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Posted by Nick Gammon   Australia  (23,173 posts)  Bio   Forum Administrator
Date Reply #24 on Fri 26 Apr 2002 08:43 PM (UTC)
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How? Just for the benefit of others...
- Nick Gammon

www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com
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Posted by Moogle   (16 posts)  Bio
Date Reply #25 on Sat 27 Apr 2002 05:36 AM (UTC)
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Well, I got it to work, and I didn't. My computer broke so I had to switch to my older one, which I'm using now, without any trouble it works fine on this one. So I really didn't get it to work.
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