Toe Cutter
01-04-2002, 11:26 AM
VengeancE recommended putting this in here, so here is all the info to date, I will be cutting and pasting from the other forum I already posted in. This is a little long.
1st post:
<font color=blue>I am stumped. I get CLIENT_UNKNOWN_TO_AUTH all the time. I cannot ping the wolfauthorize.idsoftware.com server which is at 192.246.40.65. When I ping that address I get back:
Reply from 209.176.32.178: Destination net unreachable.
I am guess this is a routing issue, but is it my routing problem or is someone else screwing me up? I have no idea who is at 209.176.32.178, and I forget how to resolve it by name. I can ping them, but I cannot get by them. My ISP said that they do not own that address and they also do not support game servers. Activision said they do not support network, so I have no idea what to do.
I am posting this every where I can, so that hopefully I get an answer. Thanks for any help
Toe</font>
2nd POST:
<font color=blue>Well, incase you are wondering I found out two things.
1) A company named SAVVIS owns 209.176.32.178, so I emailed there admin about this same problem.
2.) I then "ping -a 209.176.32.178" (I finally remembered the hostname resolution switch with the help of ping /?) the name of this sever is
"idsoft-1.CR-1.usdlls.savvis.net".
I noticed that the first part of the name is idsoft, and I know this may be a coincident, but I am not buying it. IDsoftware had there hand in the development of RTCW. Basically this is where I am getting stuck. A router somewhere is pointing me to 209.176.32.178 and that router or whatever it is, is not letting me through to 192.246.40.56.
But I can see all the servers on pathfinder. This strange because I cannot ping 192.246.40.56, but pathfinder can get the lists from it? SO I also email the guy who wrote pathfinder. I figure I will get everyone involved. Who is next? Maybe George W. Bush?
Toe</font>
3rd POST:
<font color=blue>WASSUP!:
You may wish to post this in the "Argh! I Need Help!" forum cause we do have many members and guests who are experienced with problems relating to the one you posted. Then again maybe someone from RTCW's division may have experienced this as well. BTW, nice avatar. Until then...
PEACE OUT!,
{bac_V/E}VengeancE</font>
4th POST:
<font color=blue>hmm
I also tried pinging that address 192.246.40.65 but to no avail.
OK try this
Click START/RUN on the desktop
and type
tracert 192.246.40.65
This command will trace the route that your computer takes to get to the host and will tell you where the breakdown on the network is.
I tried this and my connection was lost after about 17 hops which indicates there is a routing problem.
1 hop= 1 router
Hope this helps.
[ 04 January 2002: Edit by: MalevolencE ]</font>
5th POST:
<font color=blue>I am most probably wrong in banging on about what i think is a common issue that i still have when trying to connect to a server.
press ENTER, it should still take you in, clone 1401 had the same problem once, and that seemed to do the trick
also, the probable reason your ping is'nt working is because you are in all likeliness (Is that even a word?!) trying to ping a game server, without a port number at the end of the ip addy, therefore you might not get a reply if it's configured to just reply to port requests.
anyways, like i said, make sure your wolfenstein is patched up, try and connect to a server, and when you get the Client_Unknown_ To_ Auth message, just press enter.
And if i'm not right i'll eat my own pants!
G</font>
6th POST:
<font color=blue>Thanks for the replies. I did a tracert on 192.246.40.65 from work and the last router before the wolfauthorize server is the idsoft-1.CR-1.usdlls.savvis.net server. I guess at my house there is something that is screwing up this connection.
Here is my trace from work.
D:\>tracert 192.246.40.56
Tracing route to monster.idsoftware.com [192.246.40.56]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 <10 ms <10 ms <10 ms bblds2s407-bda.mitre.org [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]
2 <10 ms <10 ms <10 ms mbgw.mitre.org [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]
3 <10 ms <10 ms <10 ms mbcgw.mitre.org [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]
4 <10 ms * <10 ms mbfw1gw.mitre.org [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]
5 <10 ms <10 ms <10 ms mbbogw.mitre.org [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]
6 50 ms <10 ms 10 ms 192.160.51.1
7 <10 ms <10 ms <10 ms bos-edge-02.inet.qwest.net [65.115.97.161]
8 <10 ms <10 ms 10 ms bos-core-02.inet.qwest.net [205.171.28.29]
9 10 ms 10 ms 10 ms jfk-core-02.inet.qwest.net [205.171.8.20]
10 10 ms 10 ms 10 ms jfk-core-01.inet.qwest.net [205.171.230.1]
11 10 ms 20 ms 10 ms wdc-core-02.inet.qwest.net [205.171.5.235]
12 20 ms 10 ms 10 ms wdc-core-03.inet.qwest.net [205.171.24.6]
13 30 ms 30 ms 30 ms atl-core-03.inet.qwest.net [205.171.5.243]
14 30 ms 30 ms 30 ms atl-brdr-03.inet.qwest.net [205.171.21.106]
15 30 ms 30 ms 30 ms sl-bb22-atl-9-3.sprintlink.net [144.232.8.29]
16 30 ms 30 ms 30 ms sl-bb21-atl-15-0.sprintlink.net [144.232.12.149]
17 50 ms 50 ms 50 ms sl-bb20-fw-10-1.sprintlink.net [144.232.18.214]
18 50 ms 51 ms 50 ms sl-gw20-fw-8-0.sprintlink.net [144.232.11.126]
19 50 ms 50 ms 50 ms sl-savvis-2-0-0.sprintlink.net [144.232.194.14]
20 50 ms 60 ms 180 ms idsoft-1.CR-1.usdlls.savvis.net [209.176.32.178]
21 50 ms 60 ms 71 ms monster.idsoftware.com [192.246.40.56]
Trace complete.
D:\>
I x'd out the internal addresses for my work. You never know what kind of a person is surfing this site. Please take no offense.
Sorry for posting all this, but I want to have all my info in one easy to reach location. I also note that the servers name is monster.idsoftware.com and not wolfauthorize.idsoftware.com.
I'll have to try this from home, thanks again. I forgot about tracert, it has been a little while since I did any network stuff. My days are mainly spent writing test scripts in PHP, TCL, and such.
Toe</font>
[ 04 January 2002: Edit by: Toe_Cutter ]
1st post:
<font color=blue>I am stumped. I get CLIENT_UNKNOWN_TO_AUTH all the time. I cannot ping the wolfauthorize.idsoftware.com server which is at 192.246.40.65. When I ping that address I get back:
Reply from 209.176.32.178: Destination net unreachable.
I am guess this is a routing issue, but is it my routing problem or is someone else screwing me up? I have no idea who is at 209.176.32.178, and I forget how to resolve it by name. I can ping them, but I cannot get by them. My ISP said that they do not own that address and they also do not support game servers. Activision said they do not support network, so I have no idea what to do.
I am posting this every where I can, so that hopefully I get an answer. Thanks for any help
Toe</font>
2nd POST:
<font color=blue>Well, incase you are wondering I found out two things.
1) A company named SAVVIS owns 209.176.32.178, so I emailed there admin about this same problem.
2.) I then "ping -a 209.176.32.178" (I finally remembered the hostname resolution switch with the help of ping /?) the name of this sever is
"idsoft-1.CR-1.usdlls.savvis.net".
I noticed that the first part of the name is idsoft, and I know this may be a coincident, but I am not buying it. IDsoftware had there hand in the development of RTCW. Basically this is where I am getting stuck. A router somewhere is pointing me to 209.176.32.178 and that router or whatever it is, is not letting me through to 192.246.40.56.
But I can see all the servers on pathfinder. This strange because I cannot ping 192.246.40.56, but pathfinder can get the lists from it? SO I also email the guy who wrote pathfinder. I figure I will get everyone involved. Who is next? Maybe George W. Bush?
Toe</font>
3rd POST:
<font color=blue>WASSUP!:
You may wish to post this in the "Argh! I Need Help!" forum cause we do have many members and guests who are experienced with problems relating to the one you posted. Then again maybe someone from RTCW's division may have experienced this as well. BTW, nice avatar. Until then...
PEACE OUT!,
{bac_V/E}VengeancE</font>
4th POST:
<font color=blue>hmm
I also tried pinging that address 192.246.40.65 but to no avail.
OK try this
Click START/RUN on the desktop
and type
tracert 192.246.40.65
This command will trace the route that your computer takes to get to the host and will tell you where the breakdown on the network is.
I tried this and my connection was lost after about 17 hops which indicates there is a routing problem.
1 hop= 1 router
Hope this helps.
[ 04 January 2002: Edit by: MalevolencE ]</font>
5th POST:
<font color=blue>I am most probably wrong in banging on about what i think is a common issue that i still have when trying to connect to a server.
press ENTER, it should still take you in, clone 1401 had the same problem once, and that seemed to do the trick
also, the probable reason your ping is'nt working is because you are in all likeliness (Is that even a word?!) trying to ping a game server, without a port number at the end of the ip addy, therefore you might not get a reply if it's configured to just reply to port requests.
anyways, like i said, make sure your wolfenstein is patched up, try and connect to a server, and when you get the Client_Unknown_ To_ Auth message, just press enter.
And if i'm not right i'll eat my own pants!
G</font>
6th POST:
<font color=blue>Thanks for the replies. I did a tracert on 192.246.40.65 from work and the last router before the wolfauthorize server is the idsoft-1.CR-1.usdlls.savvis.net server. I guess at my house there is something that is screwing up this connection.
Here is my trace from work.
D:\>tracert 192.246.40.56
Tracing route to monster.idsoftware.com [192.246.40.56]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 <10 ms <10 ms <10 ms bblds2s407-bda.mitre.org [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]
2 <10 ms <10 ms <10 ms mbgw.mitre.org [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]
3 <10 ms <10 ms <10 ms mbcgw.mitre.org [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]
4 <10 ms * <10 ms mbfw1gw.mitre.org [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]
5 <10 ms <10 ms <10 ms mbbogw.mitre.org [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]
6 50 ms <10 ms 10 ms 192.160.51.1
7 <10 ms <10 ms <10 ms bos-edge-02.inet.qwest.net [65.115.97.161]
8 <10 ms <10 ms 10 ms bos-core-02.inet.qwest.net [205.171.28.29]
9 10 ms 10 ms 10 ms jfk-core-02.inet.qwest.net [205.171.8.20]
10 10 ms 10 ms 10 ms jfk-core-01.inet.qwest.net [205.171.230.1]
11 10 ms 20 ms 10 ms wdc-core-02.inet.qwest.net [205.171.5.235]
12 20 ms 10 ms 10 ms wdc-core-03.inet.qwest.net [205.171.24.6]
13 30 ms 30 ms 30 ms atl-core-03.inet.qwest.net [205.171.5.243]
14 30 ms 30 ms 30 ms atl-brdr-03.inet.qwest.net [205.171.21.106]
15 30 ms 30 ms 30 ms sl-bb22-atl-9-3.sprintlink.net [144.232.8.29]
16 30 ms 30 ms 30 ms sl-bb21-atl-15-0.sprintlink.net [144.232.12.149]
17 50 ms 50 ms 50 ms sl-bb20-fw-10-1.sprintlink.net [144.232.18.214]
18 50 ms 51 ms 50 ms sl-gw20-fw-8-0.sprintlink.net [144.232.11.126]
19 50 ms 50 ms 50 ms sl-savvis-2-0-0.sprintlink.net [144.232.194.14]
20 50 ms 60 ms 180 ms idsoft-1.CR-1.usdlls.savvis.net [209.176.32.178]
21 50 ms 60 ms 71 ms monster.idsoftware.com [192.246.40.56]
Trace complete.
D:\>
I x'd out the internal addresses for my work. You never know what kind of a person is surfing this site. Please take no offense.
Sorry for posting all this, but I want to have all my info in one easy to reach location. I also note that the servers name is monster.idsoftware.com and not wolfauthorize.idsoftware.com.
I'll have to try this from home, thanks again. I forgot about tracert, it has been a little while since I did any network stuff. My days are mainly spent writing test scripts in PHP, TCL, and such.
Toe</font>
[ 04 January 2002: Edit by: Toe_Cutter ]