Bug#740356: Pokerth cannot connect to internet servers

[Evgeni Golov]

Hi Ritesh,

On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 09:38:47PM +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote:

> While it doesn't seriously hinder the functionality of the game, but
> hey,, who'd play poker if no humans were involved.

True :)

> Since the new 1.1 release (which should be a couple of weeks by now), never have I been able to connect to pokerth.net. The
> error pop-up I get is "Could not connect to server".
> 
> I've verified to ensure that the DNS is working.
> 
> There's also a possibility that it is a (temporary) problem with the
> pokerth servers. But wanted to check here first.

While I must admit that I do not play online very often, checking online game
functionality is one of the things I do before the upload ;)
It worked back then, and so it does now, so there has to be some other
problem in your setup.

Can you check if it works if you move away your ~/.pokerth?
If it does: can you verify you have "pokerth.net/serverlist.xml.z" as
the "Automatic Server Configuration URL" set in the settings? Does
PokerTH tell you something on stderr/out if you start it from a console?
Are you using IPv6 (have v6 connectivity *and* have it enabled in the settings)?

> Apologies for this bug report if nobody else has encountered this
> problem

No need to apologise, we all want stuff to be fixed, right? :)

Regards
Evgeni