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    • Brutus5000B
      Brutus5000 FAF Server Admin
      last edited by

      What do you expect? We have over 20.000 users per month who do NOT have this issue.
      If there is a minority of people with weird problems it's a fair assumption to say it's a problem with your computer / operating system / local network setup.
      We have seen plenty of logs who describe this problem. Technically there is no reason that the FAF client can't resolve our domain or things like that. Java is running on millions of computer without problems so it's not a Java problem. It's not a code problem. Most probably it's weird firewall problems etc. It is impossible to track from our end.

      He said, "I've been to the year 3000
      Not much has changed, but they live underwater
      And your great-great-great-granddaughter
      Is playin' FAF, playin' FAF"

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        Sheikah
        last edited by

        As Brutus said this unfortunately only occurs for a minority of users. I have personally tried modifying my system and network configurations however I have never been able to reproduce this on my own machine or setup. This unfortunately makes it impossible for me to figure out how to solve this or if there is anything we can do on our end to help.

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          LordYellow
          last edited by LordYellow

          Well I already did everything that was suggested to fix this problem, so my answer to that question is pretty much "I would hope it would've been fixed by now considering I've never had these issues with old versions of FAF."

          It also seems quite callous to disregard the minority of people having the problem over the majority, especially considering this has been a long time issue now.

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          • BlackYpsB
            BlackYps
            last edited by

            As others have already tried to explain, we are out of ideas what could be causing it. And we have no way of reproducing the problem and thus are unable to try things out and checking if that makes the problem go away. So what do you suggest we do?

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            • H-masterH
              H-master
              last edited by

              Do you have the same problem on a different pc?
              Do you have the same problem on a different network?

              Check out my maps here:

              Madness 1 - 10

              https://forum.faforever.com/topic/480/h-master-s-maps

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                LordYellow @BlackYps
                last edited by

                @blackyps Considering that this problem started happening in general during the switch from python to java then it is quite obvious someone messed up.

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                • arma473A
                  arma473 @LordYellow
                  last edited by

                  @lordyellow Nothing is obvious when it comes to unreproducible software/networking bugs

                  Are people still able to log in with the Python client, and if so, have you tried doing that?

                  Have you tried logging in from a different connection? For example if you go over to your friend's house and use their internet, or a Starbucks with wifi, or whatever

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                    LordYellow @arma473
                    last edited by LordYellow

                    @arma473 I would be most grateful if you could supply me a way to get the old python client. I don't have it anymore since I updated long ago.

                    Also yea I tried logging in from different spots, just keeps giving me the same issue.

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                    • arma473A
                      arma473
                      last edited by

                      I don't have a copy of the python client but @ThomasHiatt might

                      Have you tried logging in from a different computer entirely? You can put FAF on a computer without installing Steam and FA. The point would just be to see if you can log in, not to actually play the game on some other computer.

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                      • ThomasHiattT
                        ThomasHiatt
                        last edited by

                        Yea, I'm the only member of this community that can type "faf python client" into google.

                        https://github.com/FAForever/client/releases

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                        • Eternal-E
                          Eternal-
                          last edited by Eternal-

                          Python client uses same web authorization as official one. The problem is in local network that does not give permission to connect FAF OAuth server in Germany. I had such problem in my college, as i know there is setup of a local server with some firewall rules, so problem is not on FAF side.

                          If you are using router / everything that stands between you and the Internet, the problem may be in it. Network provider will never block such stuff

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                          • Brutus5000B
                            Brutus5000 FAF Server Admin
                            last edited by

                            The thing I do not understand is that if you post in this forum you are in general able to login via our OAuth server.
                            But for some reason it fails if we do the same in the FAF (java) client. There is no logical or technical explanation for this.

                            He said, "I've been to the year 3000
                            Not much has changed, but they live underwater
                            And your great-great-great-granddaughter
                            Is playin' FAF, playin' FAF"

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                            • Eternal-E
                              Eternal-
                              last edited by Eternal-

                              I was wrong, i am in college right now and i cant open TCP connection with lobby.faforever.com. Mostly likely due to our local server policy for connections.

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                                Sheikah
                                last edited by

                                Yes the login forever screen is not because you can't connect to the oauth service. It happens because the tcp connection to the lobby server fails. But again I am not sure why it fails for some people beyond the firewall issues eternal mentioned.

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                                • Eternal-E
                                  Eternal-
                                  last edited by

                                  Who was this problem, please mention me when you will be here. I want to try some solutions

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                                  • Brutus5000B
                                    Brutus5000 FAF Server Admin
                                    last edited by

                                    So just to keep you informed, Sheikah dug in the dirt and it seems a new issues introduced by one of our libraries in one of the recent version. Multiple reports of the problems with resolving DNS, but looks like nobody was capable of catching logs that could help the developers.
                                    https://github.com/reactor/reactor-netty/issues/1534

                                    At least we have a workaround now that will end up in the next client release.

                                    He said, "I've been to the year 3000
                                    Not much has changed, but they live underwater
                                    And your great-great-great-granddaughter
                                    Is playin' FAF, playin' FAF"

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                                      Sheikah
                                      last edited by

                                      This release may solve the issue for some people.

                                      https://github.com/FAForever/downlords-faf-client/releases/tag/v2022.2.0-alpha-4

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