did servers just die ?
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Posted on: 2008-08-25 06:43 in ALL ACCESS Gameplay Technical Issues Bugs
Probably just scheduled maintenance:
http://uk.boards.cityofheroes.com/sh...;Number=624010
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nope dont think so they normally are hot on at 8 am for maintenance and they always give in game count downs. never heard of maintenance starting at 9.40 am
I'm stil in and playing no problem, so I'd have to say no.
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eek cant even get past connecting atm ok thanks for reply reset of modem i guess although i can enter all my other mmo's weird
i couldnt log in either, got booted out of the game and cant load up the updater.
however just rebooted my computer and can now load up the game, but still cant log in
I just managed to log on to Defiant okay.
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back in now weird 
just spoke to a few sg buddies and some had exact problems some were ok o well what can you do
You can try flushing your DNS. If you don't know how:
start>run>type in smd, hit enter.
at command prompt type: ipconfig /flushdns
this command work on XP I do not know about Vista.
oha nd you may have to reboot after.
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You can try flushing your DNS. If you don't know how:
start>run>type in smd, hit enter.
at command prompt type: ipconfig /flushdns
this command work on XP I do not know about Vista.
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I don't suppose anyone knows where this "DNS Cache Flushing" mythos with regards to CoX originated from?
Short of NCSoft having suddenly relocating all their servers or some kind of coordinated DNS cache-poisoning attack, flushing your DNS cache will do absolutely bugger all as far as fixing any connection issues goes.
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the same place the "Don't click the glowies in the mission before the station on the repsect Trial" came from?
i.e. out of someone's [censored].
It's a common way of sorting out connection problems to web pages or anything with a host name. If the DNS cache is corrupt (as sometimes happens) clearing it just forces the client to contact the outside ISP DNS server for the address rather than using the locally cached record.
You won't have to reboot the machine. It's the same command in Vista; it's a shell command and these haven't changed since DOS.
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You can try flushing your DNS. If you don't know how:
start>run>type in smd, hit enter.
at command prompt type: ipconfig /flushdns
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As Spad said, this is very unlikely to solve anything anyway, but if you do want to try it the text to type at the command prompt is [u]cmd[u], not [u]smd[u].
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As Spad said, this is very unlikely to solve anything anyway, but if you do want to try it the text to type at the command prompt is [u]cmd[u], not [u]smd[u].
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*whispers to Standoff*
Why would you type cmd at the command prompt when you are already at the command prompt ?
I think you mean at Start-Run ?
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As Spad said, this is very unlikely to solve anything anyway, but if you do want to try it the text to type at the command prompt is [u]cmd[u], not [u]smd[u].
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*whispers to Standoff*
Why would you type cmd at the command prompt when you are already at the command prompt ?
I think you mean at Start-Run ?
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Which is all moot as you can just type "ipconfig /flushdns" at the run prompt as it doesn't produce any significant output that you'd want to read .
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As Spad said, this is very unlikely to solve anything anyway, but if you do want to try it the text to type at the command prompt is [u]cmd[u], not [u]smd[u].
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*whispers to Standoff*
Why would you type cmd at the command prompt when you are already at the command prompt ?
I think you mean at Start-Run ?
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Erm, yes, you're quite right; correct text, wrong location in my post. My brain's clearly in Bank Holiday mode.... 
sorry, yes. I did make typos. I had already been up 20 hours when I typed this. MY friend lost connection to the game as well and said she could not even load their web page. So I had her flush her DNS and soon after she was able to reconnect.
just got dc'd from union now cant connect at all. anyone else or is it my ISP again ?