Testing Dice Server Fails

[Panther]

Have you ever installed a TripleA-version with bundled Java in the past? In this case there is an old Java interfering.

Please see this thread starting from
https://www.axisandallies.org/forums/index.php?topic=38761.msg1762519#msg1762519
for solving the problem.

HTH

[RoiEX]

@Panther Already figured out what kind of problem you're having, but I think there's another thing you might want to check first:
Is your system clock correctly set?
It doesn't matter if it's off by an hour or something, but at least the day should be right.

EDIT:
As a rule of thumb: If you can access https://dice.tripleawarclub.org/ with your browser no problem, the problem is related to your TripleA configuration, otherwise it's probably related to your system configuration.

[General_Zod]

@roiex @panther

Before changing java decided to run an older version of TripleA. In this case 7316. Using the same settings as above. This time the test is successful. I tried updating to most recent TripleA 10231, and it still fails.

Does this still sound like a java related glitch? Btw my clock is ok.

Here is a screenshot of successful try.

[General_Zod]

@RoiEX @Panther

I tested a bit further. 9713 was the last version that still works for me anything after that fails.

Maybe we need to open a github report for this one.

edit: opened a GitHub issue
https://github.com/triplea-game/triplea/issues/3423

[Panther]

@general_zod

There might be different reasons of course.

But to me it still sounds like the Java glitch, as your case is similar to the one discussed in the above quoted thread (dice server test works in older TripleA but not in recent versions) - and in a few similar other user reports - where we solved it by removing outdated Java (in that case it was a legacy version having been installed with an old TripleA bundled with Java) and updating to the latest ( Java 8 ) version.

Unless it has not been solved until now and to be clear about a possible Java issue can you please do this:

• Start TripleA
• Start a Local Game
• When the game has started find the Menu Debug and then click Show Console
• When the Console has opened, click the button Properties
• Then click Copy to Clipboard
• Paste in this thread

Then we will know what Java version is used and can discard or confirm the Java version as a possible reason for your issue.

[RoiEX]

@General_Zod The reason it works without problems in earlier versions is that in earlier versions the connection is completely unencrypted and therefore does not perform any checks if the connection has been modified or read by anyone.
So the connection failing can have 2 different root causes:

1. Your connection has been tampered with, and therefore a secure connection cannot be established. This is a common practice from Anti virus software, because otherwise they wouldn't be able to check if your downloading something malicious. The reason it works in your Webbrowser is that the av software creates some fake certificates and tells your computer they are legit, so it won't complain, it happened a couple of times in the past that software xy did not update the java certificates as well and therefore the complete thing fails.
2. Your java version is simply out of date and doesn't know about the existence of let's encrypt. An updated java version fixes this, but in most cases this isn't your issue.
   See https://github.com/triplea-game/triplea/issues/2821 for a complete walk-through of the resolving process.

[General_Zod]

@panther

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[Panther]

@general_zod said in Testing Dice Server Fails:

java.home=c:\program files\common files\i4j_jres\1.8.0_66

This is the culprit: This old bundled (with a legacy TripleA) Java version (Update 66) is not compatible any longer.

You should manually delete this folder and install the latest Java 8 JRE (1.8 Update 171 atm).
See the thread quoted in my above statement for further details.

[General_Zod]

@panther @RoiEX

I replaced the old java files with the latest java. That did the trick.

[Panther]

@general_zod
That's fine. Happy to help.