I’m pleased to confirm that the server is back online. Thank you sincerely for your help.

I used the TCP Optimizer program to determine the exact MTU that’s appropriate for my connection, and set it accordingly. The server was indeed restarted each time I set a new value.

At first, there was no change, even when trying other MTU’s, but the errors no longer occurred the day after.

While I’m not 100% sure what finally fixed the issue, the new MTU value is mostly likely to credit. I wouldn’t have thought to check this on my own.

The server’s presence now reflects on flserver.de once more.

Thanks again!

An update on the above, upon further digging I discovered that the PlayerControl plugin wasn’t being loaded, it appears to be due to the way PlayerControl’s files should be installed, which don’t work with FLHook 2.0.0. Here’s what I’ve tried so far:

1 . FLHook 2.0.0 works with my server, but the PlayerControl plugin requires a “dlls” folder in the “flhook_plugins” folder, which isn’t there by default. Creating it manually does not rectify the problem.

2 . FLHook 1.6.0 and 1.6.0-p3 both do not work with my vanilla 1.1 server, where FLHook.dll fails to load upon the server starting up. These versions of FLHook do however have the “dlls” folder that PlayerControl requires.

Can anyone advise how PlayerControl should be installed to a 1.1 vanilla server? Specifically, which versions of both FLHook and plugin should be used?

I have done my best to try and find different versions of both, mixing and matching to try and get both to work together as intended, with no success so far.

My thanks for your patience in advance. I’m very new to Freelancer modding, and have little in the way of programming experience.

it’s still not working for me because the gls_workaround.txt file doesn’t update unless I copy the info in manually.
The next time I restart FL the list is blank again.
Been going on for a while now. The only server that shows up is my server on the LAN.

[ListServer]
;;;hostname = localhost ;Your local machine
;;;hostname = FLListServer2.dns.corp.microsoft.com ;GUN server in Austin
;;;hostname = 131.107.135.190 ;GUN server in Redmond
;;;hostname = fllistserver.zone.msn.com ;GUN server in Redmond (DNS entry)
hostname = gun.fllistserver.com ;GUN server provided by www.fllistserver.com
port = 2300

from gls_workaround.ini
[Settings]
ListServerHostname=gun.fllistserver.com
ServerListURL=http://www.freelancerserver.de/serverips.txt

from gls_workaround.txt
Oh yeah, right… there’s nothing there.

And yes, port 2300 is open, after all that’s what’s used to connect to the server. Both TCP and UDP are open in both directions.