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Hi all, I noticed on some servers I am getting connecting failed (when connecting via in game browser) however if I launch via 6 Launcher or Dayz commander I either can't see the specific servers or they are listed as unresponsive, trying to connect via this method will just stay on "wait for host". now normally I would put this down to a server issue, however apart from myself and one other guy everyone else in our group can get onto these servers, I am wondering if anyone knows of a solution to this? I know there have been a few posts about this before but there haven’t been any answers so I thought I would create a new one with more specific information rather than necroing and old post. my next step in sorting this is trying to see if the server admin can see anything in the logs when I try and connect. Note : I have uninstalled and reinstalled BattleEye, Arma 2 (free) and Operation Arrowhead(steam) as well as tried several different beta patch versions with no effect. my game was working fine prior to noticing this issue. thanks in advance UPDATE: Guys Steps to try : Check port forwarding remove and reinstall BE manually remove and reinstall OA beta reinstall ARMA 2 free, Reinstall OA remove everything including Dayz, and reinstall no joy so far! on latest BE and latest OA beta! Remember to post in this Thread to keep it alive, if you and your friends all have the problem get them involved, if you run a server and users get this issue, check your logs and post in here! is you work on Dayz or for Bohemia then please help us out! Please also check yout ArmA2OA.RPT file fyi its located here: C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Local\ArmA 2 OA\ open it with notepad and scroll down to find the latest errors In my case I get NAT Negotiation failed (NNThink - result 2) Credit to caddrel for posting that one! Note: some people can get around this : You CAN join servers that you get Connecting Failed to by using the Six Updater. You can join servers through the Six Updater's built-in server list.

Caddrel there was an issue with gamespy that gave most people connecting failed error's about the same time i made this post! the issue still appears to be with gamespy! hopefully there will be a fix for that too soon!

If its a Lan issue I would yes, I would also recommend testing Plain arma2 the same way to see if its a problem with that or with Dayz, why would you want a lan game anyway though?

still seems to be an issue for me and several players, still no words from the devs

Not sure about Lan issues Senz0, this is strictly about issues connecting to games hosted on the Internet

Was talking to a server host earlier, he thinks its to do with Gamespys "heartbeat" apparently you can get really bad problems at the moment if you host more than one server per physical box/ip

I know of other servers that dont show in 6 launcher, so would be interested to know the reason for this

Nah nothing to do with 6 updater, ive tried that, dayzcommander and the in game browser!

yes but that would be using the in game browser NOT 6 launchers

Just to reiterate this certainly inst fixed for everyone, it's more than possible there are 2 separate issues masking as one here, the issue with game spy which has been effecting people over the past day or so and a longer running issue with the same problems and symptoms e.g. I have had this issue for over a week now

I wouldn't agree I find it clunky and it gives me performance issues, Dayz commander is preferable for me! however thats besides the point, say you join a game via 6 updater and your friend comes on and says join me on server X why should you have to close the game to switch to that server!

left mine on wait for host for about 40 mins now, Guess it wont work :P

mine appears to stick on wait for host, I'm going to leave it for 10-15 see what happens, not getting my hopes up as I tried this last week with no results

Good mate, shame not for everyone! This is an ongoing Issue, using 6 launcher/updater is NOT a fix its a workaround Glad someone got Dwarden's attention He was too busy when I asked!!

Ricky when this first happened a few people I know managed to get in after updating battle eye which is why i suggested it! :) The server I was playing on isn't listed on 6 launcher for some reason, if anyone can give me the name of a confirmed none working server I will test it tomorrow as I'm off home now

yea its weird, great that it works for some people but its no solution really! thanks again for the detective and testing work you have done so far, hopefully it will be useful to the devs if they read this

Hi Trevor sorry you have a problem but please don't try and hijack this thread

Snooken! tried both mate!

Hi see this thread http://dayzmod.com/forum/index.php?/topic/36686-connecting-failed/ try what I mention in my first post and report back

Please see the new pinned thread in the troubleshooting forum http://dayzmod.com/forum/index.php?/topic/36686-connecting-failed/

Taiwendo thanks for the server info. so what im thinking so far is there is an issue at gamespy (see posts by caddrell) where in that certain servers perhaps arnt correctly connected up to the central gamespy servers/cluster or whatnot. (which could explain how some servers don't appear on server lists or do as unresponsive) and thus when a client tries to connect it routes them into a dead end where it disconnects because it cant see the server. now I did some googling earlier about gamespy and the Nat negotiation failed. and it seems this has happened before with gamespy on other games, ranging from total war to Axis & Allies. exact same problem. People cant see the server or get onto it then they check their game logs and have Nat Negotiation failed. I haven't as yet come across anyone ever getting a fix for these issues and obviously it would be different for each game anyway, unless the issue is directly on Gamespy and they just sort it out themselves! Radishead, welcome to the club, please try everything in my first post and report back!

Caddrel, this works for some people but not all! I did noticed something else. a few of the servers in question do not appear in 6 launcher, they will appear on Dayz commander as unresponsive and will appear in the in game browser as normal. now I know the Admin of the server in particular that I started to get trouble from and hes restarted and restarted to no avail it just doesn't appear!

Thanks mate really appreciate the Pin!

Hrmmm, interesting! good job on the detective work!

hmm, hopefully there will be an official response soon, maybe its an issue with gamespy? who knows!