This problem is not on the server.. it's the client. The update to the client on August 24 (Friday) has disabled it from running at all. When started by the Playonline Viewer, the window for the Viewer closes as usual once it is ready to start the FFXI test server client...but the client just exits immediately. No error message.. the game window never opens. The Playonline Viewer window re-opens as though the FFXI test client had exited after selecting the Back button on the title page... although that actually never happens since the game window never opens.

The FFXI clients (both main and test) don't do anything to check on the server at all until after the game window has been opened, and the agree button has been selected on the box for agreement to license and rule stuff that always appears first in the game window. The test server client never gets that far.

It is going to require them to update the client again to fix this.