Accessing KGS

karaklis · Post by **karaklis** » Fri Nov 20, 2015 8:44 am

Hi all,
I haven't been on KGS for some time and was trying to connect now, but failed. Accessing (from Germany) the website at http://www.gokgs.com leads to timeout.
The servercheck at http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/gokgs.com tells me that the KGS website is up.
It is not a browser issue (I tried Chrome, Opera, Firefox, Edge) and not an OS issue (I tried Windows 10 and Ubuntu 15).
ping also timed out. the KGS server was resolved to 69.167.162.199
Any ideas what's going wrong?
Thanks for help

daal · Post by **daal** » Fri Nov 20, 2015 12:10 pm

I asked an admin, who said that it is a known issue. Apparently the only thing to do atm is to use the client.

karaklis · Post by **karaklis** » Sat Nov 21, 2015 12:15 am

Thanks, daal. Trying to connect with the client also timed out :grumpy:

That's the jnlp file though... I would probably need the cgoban.jar fille locally on my computer and start it from there. But the download does not work :scratch:

Edit: got the jar file from alternative website (an old version obviously).
Settings say that one should connect to goserver.gokgs.com
The application returns an error message that the server is refusing connections.
The servercheck at http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/goserver.gokgs.com says that theh site is down (though for www.gokgs.com it says it is up)

Bonobo · Post by **Bonobo** » Sat Nov 21, 2015 7:18 am

Karaklis,

I’m just watching Dinershtein playing a game against Trubitsin (Russian Championship final round 3) with CGoban 3.5.20 (cgoban.jar) … and I’ve sent you a PM.

Herzlichen Gruß, Tom

Bonobo · Post by **Bonobo** » Sat Nov 21, 2015 7:29 am

BTW, it could also be that you’re a victim of this technical problem (German article, local problem in Northrhine-Westphalia and perhaps the whole West of Germany)

xed_over · Post by **xed_over** » Sat Nov 21, 2015 7:50 am

Bonobo wrote:BTW, it could also be that you’re a victim of this technical problem (German article, local problem in Northrhine-Westphalia and perhaps the whole West of Germany)

I can't read that

but it could be likely. And perhaps similar to what I just suggested to EdLee in another thread, for his connection to IGS.

It sounds like a semi-localized DNS or router problem, perhaps at your ISP level. Perhaps a call to their support line could help diagnose and debug the problem?

xed_over · Post by **xed_over** » Sat Nov 21, 2015 7:57 am

karaklis wrote:The servercheck at http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/goserver.gokgs.com says that the site is down (though for http://www.gokgs.com it says it is up)

yeah, that check is probably not going to help much with this one, as goserver.gokgs.com not so much a website, as it is a service endpoint.

I can ping the endpoint just fine, even though downforeveryoneorjustme reports it down for me too.

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