Half-Life TFC kills Winroute 4.1 DNS?

[RichL]

This is a good one :

My home setup is my main box (see Sig) for all the gaming, working, surfing etc and an old P120 running Win98SE, Winroute 4.1, Zonealarm2.6 and McAffee AV6 connecting my home LAN to my cable modem.

This has worked fine, and I've had no issues playing Half-Life TFC version 1108 over the internet.

Recently I upgraded to 1110, played for a few weeks on just my local ISPs servers with no issues, before I decided to look elsewhere for a game.

When doing the 'Search for Servers' thingy (I'd entered the IPs for my local servers manually) the machine would do quite a few then fail to find any more. It then lost the ability to resolve DNS names for websurfing or NSlookups.
After some investigation, I realise that the Winroute box had lost the ability to use DNS too, and required a stop and restart of the Winroute engine before it or any other machine on the LAN would work.
First thing I did was completely uninstall Zonealarm on both PCs (including all those files and registry entries it leaves behind), and then a reinstall of Half-Life and the update, then manually opened the port for Half-Life (27015) on Winroute. I still get this problem when searching for new HL servers, although I have no problems when I enter a server manually into the game's list.

Any ideas anyone? Apart from a full reinstall of Winroute, its got me stumped.

[KeiFront]

Sorry for the late response, hadn't seen this thread before.

Try the following:

1. Open registry with Regedit. Go to:
HKey_Local_Machine\Software\TinySoftware\Winroute\ NatConnLimitPerHost

Initially it's set at 128.

This is the number of max connections opened by one user.
If you would scan for halflife servers, this limit will be reached within a few seconds. (You can see an error in the error log (something like "max connections reached") if you reach the total of max connections.)

Change this to anything you want.
I've put it to 1024.

I hope this helps.

[RichL]

Thanks! I'll give that a try tonight. I'd probably have to set it for 10,000+ for all the HL servers out there.

[RichL]

I cant actually find that key in the registry, or anything that looks exactly like it.
What version of Winroute are you using?

[KeiFront]

A bit easier http://www.kerio.com/us/supp_wrp_faq_trouble.html at the bottom of the page "My error log reports NAT:GO 'connection limit reached'. What does it mean and can it be fixed? ....."

I'm using 4.2.2

[RichL]

Ahh, I'm running 4.1.25, which is 3 versions before that Key was enabled. Have to see if I can get an upgrade.

[RichL]

KeiFront, you are a genius.
It took an upgrade, four reboots, a warezed keygen, and a lot of fiddling but I can now run a full update of 20,000+ Half-Life servers! When running it hogs the IP stack totally, but it works!

Cheers!

[KeiFront]

Cool, hmm 20000 servers on which one I'm gonna play today .