Can't resolve hostname

[astrochango]

Hello crafters,

Since yesterday at night I have been not enabled to join the server using the following address:

play.cubecraftgames.net

Troubleshooting:

• Router restarted
• Connection tested with every version from 1.8.1 to 1.8.7
• Firewall totally disabled

There were topics from this forum about this problem too, but all of them states that this problem was fixed itselft after some minutes or updating the servers.

Does Anyone know how to guide me to the right direction in order to fix it?

 

[ItsYaBoyJavid]

Try just 1.8 And I can't see it very well but, the ".net' part looks like a comma instead of a Dot. , .

 

[astrochango]

the ".net' part looks like a comma instead of a Dot

Thats why I copied the addreess above just to be verified. Also, trying just 1.8 gets the same bad result.

 

[ItsYaBoyJavid]

Thats why I copied the addreess above just to be verified. Also, trying just 1.8 gets the same bad result.

Hm. @Drew McNamee instead of tagging halo.

 

[astrochango]

Guys, I can confirm at this moment that this problem intermittent. I joined the server some minutes ago using 1.8.7, after some minutes of playing, it throws a TimeOutException. With other versions the server is totally unknown.

 

[PartyBlaze]

Well, if you have the hostname open up command prompt or Terminal and type in nslookup <hostname>, when you get their IP run "ping -l 128 <ip>". If that succeeds without packet loss then I suspect it's a client bug.
This error isn't usually thrown unless something with your client is wrong.

 

[astrochango]

Take a look to responses:

$ nslookup play.cubecraftgames.net
Server:     192.168.1.1
Address:   192.168.1.1#53

Non-authoritative answer:
Name:   play.cubecraftgames.net
Address: 136.243.11.112

Then, do a ping:

$ ping -s 128 136.243.11.112
PING 136.243.11.112 (136.243.11.112) 128(156) bytes of data.
136 bytes from 136.243.11.112: icmp_seq=1 ttl=40 time=189 ms
136 bytes from 136.243.11.112: icmp_seq=2 ttl=40 time=187 ms
136 bytes from 136.243.11.112: icmp_seq=3 ttl=40 time=187 ms
136 bytes from 136.243.11.112: icmp_seq=4 ttl=40 time=188 ms
136 bytes from 136.243.11.112: icmp_seq=5 ttl=40 time=186 ms
136 bytes from 136.243.11.112: icmp_seq=6 ttl=40 time=186 ms
^C
--- 136.243.11.112 ping statistics ---
6 packets transmitted, 6 received, 0% packet loss, time 5005ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 186.693/187.574/189.483/1.055 ms

Any package is lost and the server still unknown from minecraft client. So, I decided to remove and reinstall the launcher. Nothing changed.

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[allstarninja]

0% packet loss

 

[OrangeGE]

Some of our Frontends are having some network issues. However, that looks like a failed DNS resolution.

Please try rebooting your PC and try again.

 

[allstarninja]

Some of our Frontends are having some network issues. However, that looks like a failed DNS resolution.

Please try rebooting your PC and try again.

How did the DNS lookup fail? he received the packets. (not saying you're wrong, I'm confused.)

 

[astrochango]

How did the DNS lookup fail? he received the packets. (not saying you're wrong, I'm confused.)

Allstarninja, the problem points to DNS resolution because the problem is intermittent based in network stability. I mean, when you do a ping not always you will receive all the packets. In this case yeah, I had any problem (0 packets lost), but when I did a request from minecraft's client there were moments where play.cubecraftgames.net was not found. If I do several pings in a hour, it will fail.

By my site, I have resetted every device in the local network. Today the problem stills there.

 

[astrochango]

Update:

• dns services restarted: fail
• dns cache flush: fail
• dns reinstalled: fail
• using google dns: fail

There is not way to connect to CubeCraft. Good bye skywars

 

[allstarninja]

Lol ok. I wish you luck in the future.

 

[Marta]

How did the DNS lookup fail? he received the packets. (not saying you're wrong, I'm confused.)

DNS is a name resolution protocol, it turns play.cubecraftgames.net into an IP address. Wether you can connect to that IP address does not matter.

When he pinged play.cubecraftgames.net the ping command looked up the DNS record (A For IPv4) of play.cubecraftgames.net and got the IP, which then got pinged. DNS resolution happens automatically, and the system usually does it for you.

In this case it seems, however, that his minecraft client has issues resolving our domain name into an IP address, iirc, minecraft looks up DNS names in its own code, and not via the system its on.

To fix this, try replacing "play.cubecraftgames.net" as the address, with "136.243.11.112". (Without quotes, of course.)

See if that fixes the issue @astrochango .

 

[astrochango]

hello @halothe23,
yeah! but play.cubecraftgames.net's ip change so often, s, in the meanwhile gameplay you will be disconnected abruptly:

$ nslookup play.cubecraftgames.net
Server:     192.168.1.1
Address:   192.168.1.1#53

Non-authoritative answer:
Name:   play.cubecraftgames.net
Address: 5.9.24.91

$ nslookup play.cubecraftgames.net
Server:     192.168.1.1
Address:   192.168.1.1#53

Non-authoritative answer:
Name:   play.cubecraftgames.net
Address: 136.243.24.15

 

[astrochango]

Few minutes ago I made it works. I can not tell you whether it is a definitive solution.

At first place, I tried to find another name resolution to connect:

$ dig play.cubecraftgames.net
;; Warning: Message parser reports malformed message packet.

; <<>> DiG 9.9.4-P2-RedHat-9.9.4-18.P2.fc20 <<>> play.cubecraftgames.net
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 43849
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 26, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 5
;; WARNING: Message has 4 extra bytes at end

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;play.cubecraftgames.net.    IN    A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
play.cubecraftgames.net. 300    IN    CNAME    play.ccgn.co.
play.ccgn.co.        44    IN    CNAME    main.ccgn.co.
main.ccgn.co.        300    IN    A    5.9.24.91
main.ccgn.co.        300    IN    A    5.9.133.70
main.ccgn.co.        300    IN    A    136.243.20.119
main.ccgn.co.        300    IN    A    136.243.24.60

As you can see above, a warning message was printed from the responses about its format. (I will ignore it for a while just to follow my initial plan, but it is important to keep an eye on this.)

;; WARNING: Message has 4 extra bytes at end

Instead keep digging about, I just tried to connect using play.ccgn.co as server. This works ok for 15-20 minutes and then... Error! Time Out. So, I finally decided to use Google DNS editing resolv.conf file and set nameservers values. I wanted to avoid this option because it could carry on some other conflicts with my router and some other web services. I will be searching for another solution, for now, I will enjoy my free time tonigh

 

[Checksum]

Run command prompt as administrator
type ipconfig /flushdns

Then re-ping the server.

 

[astrochango]

Hello @Checksum, I have restarted the deamon in my machine running fedora 20. That is enough to flush the cache. The problem persist. The only way to get it works is to alternate bewteen removing Google DNSs and set them again every 45 minutes (average time the connection is alive with CubeCraft)

 

[Colourlight]

Everyone is going on about Internet, and I'm going t ogive you this: https://www.cubecraftgames.net/threads/cant-resolve-hostname-login-issue-fix.37342/

 

[astrochango]

Everyone is going on about Internet, and I'm going t ogive you this: https://www.cubecraftgames.net/threads/cant-resolve-hostname-login-issue-fix.37342/

You are very kind, but this problems is beyond a space character in the name. You can read the entire thread in order to get the point.