house ip address banned

[Guest smclaughlina]

Hi everyone this is username Alexsam and smclaughlina.

 

In reality I am a college student, currently co-oping in Virginia. Now apparantly the house that I'm staying in, their previous stayers must have played eternal lands, and got banned.

 

All I can say is that usually people only stay in this house for approximately 8 months. The ip address is 76.104.99.127

 

If I could have access again I would really appreciate it.

 

Thanks

[The_Piper]

Let me guess: You try to play using a network of your college, right?

 

Such networks tend to ban port 2000, because there is/was a virus/trojan using this port to do ebul things.

 

You can test that by trying to

telnet game.eternal-lands.com 2000

 

and if you get nothing but a black screen and *NOT* the welcome message "Hi, and welcome to...." your college has banned port 2000.

 

Just to make sure that you have a problem with port 2000 (coz your college network bans it) try this:

 

telnet the-green-leaf.de 2000

 

and you should get the welcome message of a MUD server, but i guess, you get also a black screen and nothing more.

 

If thats the fact, try to talk to some network admins at your college, that they allow you to connect to port 2000 to game.eternal-lands.com and you should be fine. (yes, this is a game and not a virus! but you need to convince the admins of that fact.)

 

Piper