BYOND Central is not accessible. in BYOND Discussion

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Aug 5 2010, 5:14 am (Edited on Aug 5 2010, 5:27 am)
Well the title says it all, about 80% of the time, that is the message I'd get when clicking a "Play Now"/"Download" link on the hubs. I am unaware if this is a common bug for more people than me, or just me who is experiencing it, so I'd rather post here and gain some feedback on it before taking it to the tracker.

Anyone else experiencing this?
#1 Aug 5 2010, 6:01 am
What browser are you using, and on what operating system?
#2 Aug 5 2010, 6:02 am
In response to Darkjohn66 (#1)
Firefox on Windows 7.
#3 Aug 5 2010, 6:54 am
I have similar issues that can't be solved with a pager restart, so it's never been much of a problem for me.
#4 Aug 5 2010, 6:56 am
In response to Mobius Evalon (#3)
Yep, I kinda got used to it when it wasn't somthing that useful as gaming, but when developing I usually want to grab a library, and this issue really does stop me, even a restart doesn't help, like you said.
#5 Aug 5 2010, 7:38 am
#6 Aug 5 2010, 8:07 am
During the time you suffer issues, what happens if you ping the BYOND hub server?
#7 Aug 5 2010, 8:10 am
In response to Schnitzelnagler (#6)
Pinging byond1.byond.com [67.228.127.154] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 67.228.127.154: bytes=32 time=164ms TTL=55
Reply from 67.228.127.154: bytes=32 time=164ms TTL=55
Reply from 67.228.127.154: bytes=32 time=164ms TTL=55
Reply from 67.228.127.154: bytes=32 time=164ms TTL=55

Ping statistics for 67.228.127.154:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 164ms, Maximum = 164ms, Average = 164ms
#8 Aug 5 2010, 11:47 am
Happens to me all the time too. Way more frequently than ever before just recently. It's getting annoying.
#9 Aug 5 2010, 11:49 am
In response to Fugsnarf (#8)
Fugsnarf wrote:
Happens to me all the time too. Way more frequently than ever before just recently. It's getting annoying.

Can you be more specific? If a particular BYOND software release (such as v.472) escalated this problem, then that is obviously pretty relevant and would give us something to investigate.
#10 Aug 5 2010, 11:53 am
In response to Tom (#9)
Sorry, I can't really pinpoint what release started it. It's always happened once in awhile. Just recently it started happen more than usual. I think the pager always had trouble reconnecting after the connection was lost. Before I think it was just my failure of a netgear router always losing connection and the pager not reconnecting. Now it's as if the pager is losing its own connection. Maybe that was always the case, though, and now it's just more frequent. I really don't know. Before 472 is the most accurate I can give you unless I tested each version for hours and waited for it to not work.
#11 Aug 5 2010, 11:55 am
In response to Fugsnarf (#10)
Fugsnarf wrote:
Sorry, I can't really pinpoint what release started it. It's always happened once in awhile. Just recently it started happen more than usual. I think the pager always had trouble reconnecting after the connection was lost. Before I think it was just my failure of a netgear router always losing connection and the pager not reconnecting. Now it's as if the pager is losing its own connection. Maybe that was always the case, though, and now it's just more frequent. I really don't know. Before 472 is the most accurate I can give you unless I tested each version for hours and waited for it to not work.

So you think the problem was not as big before 472, or it was a big problem sometime before 472?
#12 Aug 5 2010, 11:56 am
In response to Tom (#11)
The problem started from either 471 or lower, I am pretty sure of that.
#13 Aug 5 2010, 1:01 pm
In response to Fugsnarf (#12)
I am actually on a shoddy connection now; my computer has disconnected and reconnected multiple times in the last hour.

I have to say that I have not gotten the message in question, but rather my pager does nothing when trying to launch a game from the hub.
#14 Aug 5 2010, 4:58 pm
In response to Tom (#9)
For me it's been a issue since somewhere on 460+ not too acurate, but it'd happen every once in a while which is normal, but now it happens more or less every time. :/
#15 Aug 8 2010, 9:12 am
I've reported this issue in more detail on the bug tracker.

If anyone has any more information, please reply to the report. Thanks.
#16 Aug 8 2010, 9:24 am
In response to Android Data (#15)
Android Data wrote:
I've reported this issue in more detail on the bug tracker.

That link takes you to file a new report. Plus I already linked to a related tracker issue from this topic http://www.byond.com/members/ DreamMakers?command=view_tracker_issue&tracker_issue=1896
#17 Aug 10 2010, 5:41 pm
Guys can anyone help....it keep saying BYOND Central is not accessible.I just wanna know why its doing that and how to stop it.
#18 Aug 10 2010, 5:43 pm
In response to Anime xXx Eclipse (#17)
Anime xXx Eclipse wrote:
Guys can anyone help....it keep saying BYOND Central is not accessible.I just wanna know why its doing that and how to stop it.

We have been investigating this and have handed some debugging builds off to a few testers experiencing the problem. We'll release a build the moment we have a solution.
#19 Aug 10 2010, 5:46 pm
In response to Tom (#18)
Ok...thank you for anwsering me.
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