AoE: Castle Siege - Connection Error

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[Warning! This blog post is nothing to do with Hyper-V or virtualization. It is Friday night and I am playing computer games!]

It has been a long busy week of working on Hyper-V – and now it is time for me to unwind.  After playing a couple of games I decided to try out the recently released “Age of Empires: Castle Siege” only to be presented with this:

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What?  Well – that would be because I run an enterprise grade firewall in my house (I mean, who doesn’t?).  A quick journey through the firewall logs showed that it was trying to reach castlesrelease.cloudapp.net:8443-8444 – and my firewall was dutifully blocking this.

My immediate fix was to just allow access on these ports – but that did not actually work.  The reason was that my firewall was actually able to detect that this was actually SSL traffic running over an odd port – and was quite upset about that.

A moment later – I had my SSL definition updated to allow ports 8443 and 8444 (outbound only) and everything is good.  Now, off to build an empire…

Cheers,
Ben

Comments

  • Anonymous
    October 18, 2014
    OMG! They got AoE online? I gotta get some.

  • Anonymous
    October 20, 2014
    Most AOE players see that error several times a day.

  • Anonymous
    October 20, 2014
    Nice!  Thanks for the post.  I need to take some of your advice and just unwind and play some AoE myself.  Thanks for all the good blogs by the way.

  • Anonymous
    October 20, 2014
    Now, only if your game can sync between my windows devices. (maybe it can but I haven't tried.)  Play on my Windows phone, or Surface, or even work laptop on the road.  shhhh about the work laptop part.

  • Anonymous
    October 21, 2014
    Bearded Awesomeness - You should try it - because it does exactly what you want!  Automatic syncing between desktop and phone is a great experience. Cheers, Ben

  • Anonymous
    October 23, 2014
    I keep getting the same message on my Windows phone. The first time this happened I just turned my phone off and on and it worked but now it's doing the same thing and resetting my phone isn't working anymore. Any suggestions?

  • Anonymous
    January 19, 2015
    how can i reach to  castlesrelease.cloudapp.net:8443-8444???