Bigshot Group Hunting Problem

[thendias]

So I am attempting to use bigshot to hunt two characters on different accounts. This was working fine for me, then one day it just stopped working and gave the error message below. I am attempting to run this from the same PC, and as far as I know nothing changed between when it worked and stopped working. I am joining the leader, starting the tail first, and then starting the leader. The leader then waits for about 20 seconds, and then gives this error message:

--- Lich: error: druby://owner-PC:51980 - #<Errno::ETIMEDOUT: A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond. - connect(2)>
C:/Ruby200/lib/ruby/2.0.0/drb/drb.rb:741:in `rescue in block in open'
C:/Ruby200/lib/ruby/2.0.0/drb/drb.rb:735:in `block in open'
--- Lich: bigshot has exited.


Any thoughts on what might be going on here and how I might fix it?


Thanks!

[thendias]

Bump... anyone ever had this problem before?

[Gelston]

No, no one here plays Gemstone.

[Soulance]

That looks more like a bad lnet connection... What version of lich are you running?

[Lorstrum]

This part "druby://owner-PC:51980" is trying to open a connection to what should be your computer's hostname on port 51980 via distributed ruby. Although most PCs do, you can check to make sure the name resolves correctly to an IP address by pinging that name. If that does work, then next I would check to see if windows firewall (or any other "internet security" application) is blocking it. Adding exceptions to firewall software varies based on what software it is.