White screen of Death

[Eus]

Crazyguy, trying to load the game via the IP address will lead you to nowhere. The devs designed it like this, so it always redirects you to "utopia-game.com", your browser then picks the wrong IP from the wrong name server and sends you to a totally different web server.

[Vit]

So posting the IP works to get me to the lobby, but as soon as I click on anything, I get redirected to that ad site.

restart your browser

[Scavenger]

Eus thing worked for or it was coincidental.

[Eus]

Scavenger, I see you still have bad taste in your mouth because of our last forum encounter, I suggest you forget that tiny thing, and move on. We all did.

[Atreeus]

yeah.. Eus its only a temporary fix.. when I click something too I get redirected back... seem as though im gonna have to do that with every link?

[Darkmoore]

well it works fine here.. all pages work witht he IP I am using..

[Eus]

Do what Atreeus? Once you add the IP to your hosts file, you don't have to do anything else but the usual things. All the IP addresses that resolves atm to utopia-game.com are fake, except one.
IP address of utopia-game.com is 174.129.4.172
IP address of utopia-game.com is 66.150.161.140
IP address of utopia-game.com is 63.251.171.81
IP address of utopia-game.com is 63.251.171.80
IP address of utopia-game.com is 69.25.27.170
IP address of utopia-game.com is 69.25.27.173
IP address of utopia-game.com is 66.150.161.141

In this case, the first IP is the real one. With every request you make to a DNS server, the DNS servers which has information about utopia-game.com will respond, leading your browser into obtaining the wrong IP for the game server.
As suggested earlier - after you add the line to your hosts file, clear your DNS cashe -> for windows you should go to start menu -> run and type "ipconfig /flushdns"
That should be enough.

[Crazyguy]

Flushing DNS might help, although not just opendns, but also google's DNS servers report multiple addresses for utopia-game.com, while only one is the real one.
I doubt renewing your IP address would hardly make any change, so "ipconfig /release" + "ipconfig /renew" would be your last resort, windows guys.

The real IP address everyone are looking for is 174.129.4.172, however you cannot access it with the IP only, since it redirects to "utopia-game.com/shared".
What you can do is edit your hosts file and add a line like this:



On windows, your hosts file is located in your windows directory (usually C:\Windows) system32 -> drivers -> etc
It has no extension, you have to open it with text editor (notepad, wordpad, word, notepad++, etc).
This is generallly for windows XP, I think in windows 7 the path is similar.

In linux, edit as root your /etc/hosts file
the syntax is the same

aarrrrggggggggggggggg

[Brian_]

Confirmed: The problem is with mydomain.com
See here: http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%23mydomain

Also, they're starting to acknowledge that there's a problem:
http://twitter.com/mydomaindotcom

Even if mydomain fix the problem immediately it's likely that it will take several hours for their change to propagate across the internet.

We do not recommend that people update their host files. Some of the instructions in this thread for doing so are incorrect and you may have problems connecting to utopia in the future. Please do not update your host file.

[Scavenger]

Scavenger, I see you still have bad taste in your mouth because of our last forum encounter, I suggest you forget that tiny thing, and move on. We all did.

Huh? I just said it worked unless the game let me in at the exact time i tried it out. Aleast that was what i meant to say. Don't see how you can get a negative out of that...

[Eus]

well it works fine here.. all pages work witht he IP I am using..

That is weird, really.
Host name of 174.129.4.172 is ec2-174-129-4-172.compute-1.amazonaws.com
Only this IP address has any reverse DNS information and we all know utopia is hosted on amazon clouds.

We do not recommend that people update their host files. Some of the instructions in this thread for doing so are incorrect and you may have problems connecting to utopia in the future. Please do not update your host file.

Wow. Great! And what exactly is incorrect?

Huh? I just said it worked unless the game let me in at the exact time i tried it out. Aleast that was what i meant to say. Don't see how you can get a negative out of that...

Hm, sorry, my bad then. Thought you were still bitter about that thing witht he PMs :P

[Brian_]

We're going to pause the game and put up the maintenance notice until at least tomorrow morning @10am GMT.

No ticking happens when the game is paused.
No armies will return.
No wars will be lost.

We're going to see what happens with mydomain in the next few minutes/hours and possibly move our domain elsewhere (note: we can do this without affecting you guys - you won't need to update anything).

Sorry for this inconvenience.

[Scavenger]

Hm, sorry, my bad then. Thought you were still bitter about that thing witht he PMs :P

Exchanging opinions doesn't make me bitter. I wish you the same.

[KuhaN]

All these turbo nerds trying to find a way to get on utopia. So funny. Take ur time Brian, no rush bro.

[Eus]

"Turbo nerds"
heh
funny guy, you are