You understand that 1017 is not an Error correct? Its the system telling you the message 1017 that the server is locked and not able to be connected to. This is SE's counter measure to folks spamming the servers and crashing them. Yes it sucks but its needed.

The fact that SE did not account for the population of the Entire world trying to log on screwed them over greatly ^^ they are working on a fix please be happy with that answer because there is no other answer to this.