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"ShawNews" <WhoaBaby@MySecretPlace.org> wrote in message 
news:KlUXm.4800$2A7.3327@newsfe07.iad...
> Greetings!
>  Been a while since I haunted the usenet / AGUT...
>  Recently took an interest in ut99 again, got the game running easily
> enough under Slackware 12.2 on a Core i7 system with nVidia. Upgraded to
> v451, latest UTPure, and everything runs kewl except for connecting to
> redirect servers.
>  I've got a 451 dedicated Linux sniper server running on a recently
> acquired 6-watt computer on my LAN (behind a router), I can connect to it
> with my Linux box, but when I attempt to test the redirection it fails on
> the client side (according to my logs). It will still acquire files 
> through
> the server, but (as you know) it's painfully slow. Connecting to the 
> server
> from a WinXP install, on my LAN, hooks into the redirect site.
>  I get the same failure when I try to connect to online servers with my
> Linux client - the best I can muster is a download directly from the 
> server
> (if they've enabled it) - if it's been disabled, the download fails.
>  Been Googling for a while, can't really seem to dig up anything. I'm sure
> I had ut99 fully functional under earlier versions of Linux, but for the
> life of me, I cannot recall this quirk. Anyone got suggestions?
>  To clarify, I know for certain it is not an issue on the server side, nor
> an issue with the router. The WinXP box grabbed the redirected download
> properly from the net. It is some aspect of the client side.
>  Here's the server if you'd like to test it :
> unreal://70.74.167.33:7777
>  Appreciate any feedback / insight,
>       Danno.


It's probably an issue with context. Windows can deal with (for example):
UDamage.u.uz/udamage.u.uz/UDAMAGE.U.uz
but Linux gets hung on it. There are a LOT of case non-specific files 
associated with UT, even in the default stuff. That's probably whats going 
on.