ETQW connecting to 65.55.179.26:80.

(wolfensteiner) #1

Hi,

I downloaded the ET:QW demo a couple of weeks ago and the lag has been fine (the netgraph shows a flat green line). But, two days ago it suddenly became very jerky and the netgraph showed lots of tall yellow spikes. It was unplayable.

Anyway, long story short, ET:QW has started making 4 connections per second to 65.55.179.26:80. I don’t need to join a server or even refresh the server list, it starts doing it even at the menu.

When I created a firewall rule to block access to that IP address, the lag is fine and the game is back to normal.

So, does anyone know what this IP address is or why the game has suddenly started making hundreds of connections to it?

Thanks.

(spng) #2

Whois give this

IP : 65.55.179.26
Host : locate.madserver.net OK

is the server name that host?

(Scrupus) #3

Strange stuff - that ip is in Micro**** netrange according to my whois:

Microsoft Corp MICROSOFT-1BLK (NET-65-52-0-0-1) 65.52.0.0 - 65.55.255.255
American Registry for Internet Numbers NET65 (NET-65-0-0-0-0) 65.0.0.0 - 65.255.255.255

So I would guess it’s some windows thing polling it, not qw. Do you run MS Essential Security by any chance?

(DrFunkenstein) #4

I had the same problem a couple of days ago. ETQW had 1400 connections open to locate.madservers.net at some point.

Adding that server to my hosts file solved the problem.

Dr. Funkenstein

(wolfensteiner) #5

[QUOTE=Scrupus;356941]Strange stuff - that ip is in Micro**** netrange according to my whois:

Microsoft Corp MICROSOFT-1BLK (NET-65-52-0-0-1) 65.52.0.0 - 65.55.255.255
American Registry for Internet Numbers NET65 (NET-65-0-0-0-0) 65.0.0.0 - 65.255.255.255

So I would guess it’s some windows thing polling it, not qw. Do you run MS Essential Security by any chance?[/QUOTE]

No, I don’t use MS Essential Security. If it was some Windows program or service, why would it be showing to both Dr. Funkenstein and I as ETQW.exe?

(wolfensteiner) #6

[QUOTE=DrFunkenstein;356977]I had the same problem a couple of days ago. ETQW had 1400 connections open to locate.madservers.net at some point.

Adding that server to my hosts file solved the problem.

Dr. Funkenstein[/QUOTE]

Thanks for the replies and sorry for my late reply, I wasn’t sure I’d get any responses.

It’s interesting to hear that someone else has had the same problem and that it happened at about the same time. Is your copy the demo or the full game?

Do you know what “locate.madservers.net” is?

I don’t want to sound awkward, but adding the server to hosts file (I presume you mean with an IP of 127.0.0.1) or blocking it via firewall isn’t really fixing the problem as much as ignoring it. Why has it suddenly started happening, is it a trojan?

Thanks again.

(DrFunkenstein) #7

I guess that locate.madservers.net is the server that provides the ads you see in the game, at least that’s what I found when I did a search with Google.

I have no idea why it started to look for that server all of a sudden and why it only affected a couple of players and not everyone.

And I agree with you that it’s not a proper solution, more like a stop-gap, but the game became really unplayable as you have found out yourself :slight_smile: .

I’m playing the full game btw.

Dr. Funkenstein

(Violator) #8

http://www.whois.net/whois/madservers.net

Tempted to register ‘crazy-servers.com’ :slight_smile:

Also

Now go give Zack some flack :wink:

(Scrupus) #9

Well good point, but it was just a suggestion as I know MS:ES can block punkbuster when playing etqw, and I’m pretty sure MS won’t host servers that’s not under their own (or their partners) control on their own ip range.

But as others said it’s probably the ad system, and if you google locate.madserver.net you’ll see other comments confirming it :slight_smile:

This one fex: http://forums.ubi.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/1991064316/m/8131039715

“madserver.net” is Massive Incorporated server. This is the server for in-game adverts

Mystery solved I guess :infiltrator:

Edit: and yeah, should be safe to block it with host file, like people often do for other similar ad systems.