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[Sagittarii]

Hmm, I get Lebanon, Kentucky US when I do a DNS lookup on neolobby02.ffxiv.com. That hostname currently resolves to 204.2.229.9. Of course, they could just update the DNS record later on, but that's what I see now.

[Redarian]

Hmm, I get Lebanon, Kentucky US when I do a DNS lookup on neolobby02.ffxiv.com. That hostname currently resolves to 204.2.229.9. Of course, they could just update the DNS record later on, but that's what I see now.

Oh man, that's barely an hour away from me. Wouldn't that just be the dream.

I'm boggled that Riot (League of Legends) had this huge deal about moving FROM the west coast into Chicago, with the goal of equalizing ping for all players. Yet here is Square-Enix, moving TO the west coast? It's weird. Though maybe Riot has to deal with separate issues than Square-Enix, given the scale of the player base, and how League is much more punishing than FF if your ping is high?

[Fourbestintoner]

When you hate Australians so much you would rather kill your game in the east coast and England than make them stay on a jp data center.

[Mature]

It sucks for EU people but they have an option to move to the EU datacenters - and transfers should be opened up for free without gil restrictions imo.

I disagree totally with your other post BUT we share the same idea regarding this quote. Hope team are reading this (of course they are lol)

[outburstt]

This thread.. Way to spread misinformation. Now everyone is saying the servers are in california.

As anyone with networking knowledge knows, until the servers are up, tracert and trying to trace the IP is unreliable. Those IPs, while the DNS record might be updated, could very well be old records until the IP is actually claimed by the servers.

Until the servers are up, theres no way its guaranteed to be in california.

Btw. Using your same testing method, i got MICHIGAN. I think youre very confused about what routing is vs dns is.

[Sagittarii]

Oh man, that's barely an hour away from me. Wouldn't that just be the dream.

I'm boggled that Riot (League of Legends) had this huge deal about moving FROM the west coast into Chicago, with the goal of equalizing ping for all players. Yet here is Square-Enix, moving TO the west coast? It's weird. Though maybe Riot has to deal with separate issues than Square-Enix, given the scale of the player base, and how League is much more punishing than FF if your ping is high?

I live in Los Angeles, so moving the data-center to the west coast would suit me well. But, at this time, it looks like it will be Kentucky unless they do a last minute DNS change... we're less than 24 hours away from going back online, so I don't think they will screw around with DNS anymore.

[TaurusGilgamesh]

Hmm, I get Lebanon, Kentucky US when I do a DNS lookup on neolobby02.ffxiv.com. That hostname currently resolves to 204.2.229.9. Of course, they could just update the DNS record later on, but that's what I see now.

did you use a website for that? If so, you can't trust that result at all.

[Sagittarii]

Yes, I used a website. https://mxtoolbox.com/DNSLookup.aspx I use this site all the time and I actually work for a company that hosts public DNS. In the past, when I have done updates to public DNS records, that site has captured the updates accurately. It looks like SE is using Akamai to host their DNS.

[technole]

This thread.. Way to spread misinformation. Now everyone is saying the servers are in california.

The Aether and Primal lobby DNS did get updated to a *new* IP address, that part is a fact. Simple trace route goes to what looks like Ragingwire/NTT CA2 Data Center.

We can still ping the old data center IPs and it goes through Montreal. If you'd like you can still trace 199.91.189.74 and 199.91.189.93, those are still functional.

What we still don't know are the actual IP addresses of the game servers themselves, but it's very likely they are in the same subnet.

[Lelila38]

Basically we won't know anything for sure until servers go live again. Until then it's all just speculation, some more likely than others, but unconfirmed nontheless.
I don't get why SE doesn't simply reveal the new location to stop all these rumors, the transfer is under way now, what harm could it be telling people where it's gonna be at this point?