Some extra Tips on the dreaded 'ip not found'
Sorry for silly post title but after 5 hours of blood and sweat i managed to fix my 'ip not found' problem. I think i have some information that might be useful to the many poor souls who havnt got past this. As we all know routers and firewalls are the most comon causes of this error. They can also cause error getting into vnet but not to the same extent. I think this is because vnet does not require host-proccesses on your machine.
Anyway, i decided early on that my router was not the problem. Nothing there had changed since sunday when i was playing with no problems then. I then turned my attention to my firewall zone alarm. This had an error when it starting up so you would asume it wasnt running ie no icon in tray etc. Youd be wrong of course. Fact is that many of these annoying windows programs dont always show themselves as clearly as we might like. 'Rogue' proccesses as they are known run on the fly and are hard to identify. I decided on a theory that Some of these proccesses were still running behind my back as it were. I tried to uninstall zone alarm but no joy. Some annoying DLL error meant i could not even get rid of the damn thing. I then deleted the program folder which you shouldnt do of course as its not a proper uninstall. I restarted the machine and problem still persisted. To cut a long story short i then went through my PCs registry and /windows/system32 folder deleting every entry with the tag of zone labs. You can check this by selecting 'choose details' and then selecting company as information you want to display about the file. Note you will Have to do this in safe mode as the proccesses are running and you cant delete files in use. After a lot of messing about i killed the damn thing and can now join EU games. Ok so in summary
-Just cos some things such as IE and ICQ work doesnt mean there isnt a problem
-test other apps that you know require host proccesses for diagnostics
-Just cos there is no apparant firewall/port blocker running doesnt mean there isnt
-Careful of what you install and uninstall
-Routers are fine as long as you know how to use them
Sorry for silly post title but after 5 hours of blood and sweat i managed to fix my 'ip not found' problem. I think i have some information that might be useful to the many poor souls who havnt got past this. As we all know routers and firewalls are the most comon causes of this error. They can also cause error getting into vnet but not to the same extent. I think this is because vnet does not require host-proccesses on your machine.
Anyway, i decided early on that my router was not the problem. Nothing there had changed since sunday when i was playing with no problems then. I then turned my attention to my firewall zone alarm. This had an error when it starting up so you would asume it wasnt running ie no icon in tray etc. Youd be wrong of course. Fact is that many of these annoying windows programs dont always show themselves as clearly as we might like. 'Rogue' proccesses as they are known run on the fly and are hard to identify. I decided on a theory that Some of these proccesses were still running behind my back as it were. I tried to uninstall zone alarm but no joy. Some annoying DLL error meant i could not even get rid of the damn thing. I then deleted the program folder which you shouldnt do of course as its not a proper uninstall. I restarted the machine and problem still persisted. To cut a long story short i then went through my PCs registry and /windows/system32 folder deleting every entry with the tag of zone labs. You can check this by selecting 'choose details' and then selecting company as information you want to display about the file. Note you will Have to do this in safe mode as the proccesses are running and you cant delete files in use. After a lot of messing about i killed the damn thing and can now join EU games. Ok so in summary
-Just cos some things such as IE and ICQ work doesnt mean there isnt a problem
-test other apps that you know require host proccesses for diagnostics
-Just cos there is no apparant firewall/port blocker running doesnt mean there isnt
-Careful of what you install and uninstall
-Routers are fine as long as you know how to use them
