Bug#740356: Pokerth cannot connect to internet servers

[Ritesh Raj Sarraf]

On 03/02/2014 04:44 PM, Evgeni Golov wrote:
>> 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)?
>

Moving away the ~/.pokerth folder solved the problem.

The culprit was the IPv6 option. Even on the old settings folder, once I
reverted the IPv6 settings, things worked back perfect.

THank you for your help.

-- 
Ritesh Raj Sarraf | http://people.debian.org/~rrs
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