(In reply to comment #0)
> Awaiting connection  and no connect  after 1.2 or 1.2a patch installed!
> How can i solve this problem?
> 

When you are waiting, just type /reconnect in console. You will try to reconnect and you should be connecting in 2 seconds.

I know this is not really a solution, but it works for me now

(In reply to comment #0)
> Awaiting connection  and no connect  after 1.2 or 1.2a patch installed!
> How can i solve this problem?
> 

not working for me!

Is PunkBuster enabled? Do you have any sort of firewall in place?

--ryan.

No firewall! 
downgrade the server to 1.0a works fine!

(In reply to comment #3)
> Is PunkBuster enabled? Do you have any sort of firewall in place?
> 
> --ryan.
> 

No firewall. No PB!

(In reply to comment #3)
> Is PunkBuster enabled? Do you have any sort of firewall in place?
> 
> --ryan.
> 

ip 217.113.53.118:28961

The /reconnect didn't help me at all. Can you tell us somathing when will this bug be fixed?

We do not have firewall and PB enabled. ( we have not had time to care of it yet ) Sometimes it grants to join the game  after the fourth second and sometimes it only counts till the end of time. We cannot realize what would be the reason of this behaviour. We tried it with a "virgin" game ( withuut any mod ) and tried a lot of mods if there was a part of a modification that would resolve this problem. But despite all the time we spent for finding solution wasn't succeed.

We have approximately 150 CoD2 gameservers and more than 90% of it behaves like this! If you need any help in test please let us know and we will help you just send us a mail to fgcklan@fgcklan.hu. 

If you need information on operatin system, harware or ANY please let us know 

Sincerely,
John Gallai
fgcklan.hu

We do not have firewall and PB enabled. ( we have not had time to care of it yet ) Sometimes it grants to join the game  after the fourth second and sometimes it only counts till the end of time. We cannot realize what would be the reason of this behaviour. We tried it with a "virgin" game ( withuut any mod ) and tried a lot of mods if there was a part of a modification that would resolve this problem. But despite all the time we spent for finding solution wasn't succeed.

We have approximately 150 CoD2 gameservers and more than 90% of it behaves like this! If you need any help in test please let us know and we will help you just send us a mail to fgcklan@fgcklan.hu. 

If you need information on operatin system, hardware or ANY information what could help you please let us know 

Sincerely,
John Gallai
fgcklan.hu

try adding this to your /etc/hosts file:

63.146.124.40 cod2master.activision.com

This IP is hardcoded in all our config.cfg files. When the server starts it resolves cod2master.activision.com to 63.146.124.40 so it seems to be working well. We trying to solve the problem for three days continuously. Here are the results:

- some server immediately grants joins after start - no long waiting process

- when the lnxded starts, after the 20 minutes it lets some people to join. Some will never be allowed to connect. No reason why.

- if your server won't let you in at all try to use /rcon quit ( i created a script that makes the server restart after /rcon quit ) some times and once, after a bounch of restarts it lets to join the game.

- a lot of times, the 1.2 version lnxded crashes and the only help is restarting the server

We tried it with:
- fully configured ( the 1.0 works fine with this firewall ) firewall and with PB on.
- fully configured firewall without PB on.
- without firewall and PB and any mods listening on the default port 28960

The weird thing is that we have the original game disk and the same occurs. Counts till the end of time. As I write after a long period of time it lets us join the game ( approx. 20 minutes ) but it is a unwaitable time.

A competitor of yours, Ideafrag.hu have been succesfully solved the problem because they're running a lot of CoD2 1.2a without any problems but they had the same issue after updating the game. I dont know how they do it but it works fine, everybody can connect to our ideafrag cod2 1.2 server.

*** Bug 2768 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

*** Bug 2675 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Same for 1.3 Linux patch. No firewall rules, no PB. Nobody couldn't connect. Server starts fine.

Flagging all open COD2 bugs as WONTFIX, as it's unlikely that I'll be revisiting this game (sorry!).

--ryan.