Excelsior

I realize this is likely an old topic but I did not wish to necro up an old post and did not see any other info on it recently from folks.

Lately, in the last 4 or so days, I've been getting the old stuck at verifying or in some cases stuck at connecting issue. The issue is all over google on various UO shards with no clear solution. So far the only thing that allows me to get passed it is switching from using shard.uoex.net to the server's respective IP address, OR in the reverse case I may have to switch back from using the IP address to using the server's FQDN. Sure seems like their might be a DNS issue there but I'm not entirely sure. Thought I'd put this up just in case anyone else is having any issues.

The issue has to come from somwhere within your network dns to the shard... if you can connect direct with the ip then it has to be the dns name servers your isp are using or a configuration within your system ... also could be your dns cache files. YOu may want to clear out your dns cache files and check to make sure you are not set up using a proxy server (this could happen without your knowoledge if you have spyware or other malware ) on your system ( to check the proxy issue you can go to control panel and go to internet options and go to connections then lan settings and select automatically detect settings ) .

To clean out dns cache files (windows )
Close all browsers
from a command prompt (run as administrator)
ipconfig /flushdns
net stop dnscache
net start dnscache


just a few things to look at .

Lestat

Thanks Lestat, Dnscache poisoning makes sense. I did have a PUP detection the other day that I went through and triple checked and cleaned about a week ago. Went through those steps and will see how it goes.