"connecting failed"

[00goat 0]

All of my friends have spent the last two hours playing on TX1, joining bit by bit. I cannot join this server. I don't even get max player messages or anything, just "connecting failed". I also cannot find a server with daylight. I'm slightly furious as you might imagine. I have friends that have joined in the last 5 minutes that hop right on.

Explain this.

and why aren't the chicago servers updated yet??

[Bandit Hunter 29]

Explanation: Alpha mod, 90,000 unique players, Peak hours, ARMA:II's overtaxed multiplayer lobby, and as for nighttime servers, its nighttime in most areas with a server host.

[00goat 0]

Not being able to get on for an hour and a half yesterday afternoon due to "waiting on server response" is an alpha mod. Having the servers go crazy due to a million players in the db is downright hilarious, and also an alpha mod. Waiting on patches and watching servers update is all stuff I take with entirely good humor.

Having waited 4 hours to play the game for the above reasons, and having a group of friends playing on a "known good" server where they connect almost instantly and have daylight, and being unable to even attempt to get in breaks my patience. To be clear, this is a complete inability to even talk to the server, even just to get a "max players" message.

So I'd like to know what the cause of this message is... google seems to indicate that it's not terribly uncommon. In my case it seemed to affect all of the TX servers, but not the host altitude NY servers.

[lysdexic 0]

I have the exact same problem, I can connect to some, but not all

[ZOUNDS! 0]

I too have this problem, I've been searching for a couple days and found no help.

It seems I cant connect to anything texas, I thought I might be the server host so I tried Altitude's NY and got right in.

Real strange error, wish I had the slightest of ideas what causes it.

[00goat 0]

So I'm still searching on this topic... once again I'm looking to play, my friends are all on a TX(x) server, and I get connecting failed.

If it helps anyone else who may be searching on this error, some folks had luck with http://dayzmod.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=4119

However upon checking my folders I already have it set up that way. Most of those folks seem to have larger issues than just connecting to one group of servers. I see that Zounds! here has my exact issue, being locked out of TX and nothing else (that I know of).

I'd like to keep this topic alive... there has to be some reason why we're having this issue. If anyone knows of specific conditions that trigger this response, please advise.