Camfrog Outage 5/17
Early this morning we planned to release a central server update that would allow Camfrog for iPhone users to receive push notifications to their phones. Unfortunately we ended up having unexpected problems and we had a two hour downtime.
After the unexpected problems we found yet another problem where some users could not see videos from other users. We just now disconnected all Camfrog rooms to solve this problem. If you are seeing the message that you can’t see another user due to an old version please try signing your client on and off again.
If you are still having problems please let us know. Sorry for the inconvenience and thanks for your patience.
Update 5/18 – The internal video chat room list and room locator service will be offline until tonight sometime between 9PM and midnight CST. Sorry for any inconvenience. We could reboot the entire system to solve this immediately, but we would prefer to fix this tonight instead and avoid a reboot. Please note that you can join any rooms manually as usual from your contact list or you can visit http://videochat.camfrog.com to view the list of rooms.
Update 5/29 – There seem to be some network problems for some users in the US, EU, and Asia. Hopefully they will clear up soon, sorry for any inconvenience. If you are already on Camfrog you will not see any problems however if you try to sign on now you may see a long delay. Just be patient and your client will eventually sign on again.
Update 5/30 – It appears the logon problem has returned. It will probably continue to happen intermittently until our network provider finds the cause. If they do not find the cause soon we will plan to switch providers.
Update 5/31 – Our team has been working for over 40 hours now during the US Holiday while trying to determine a way to solve this problem. When they find a solution I will update you. Any downtime is unacceptable and we spend major time and money to make sure it never happens, but this situation is unique and unexpected in a way we could never prepare for in advance.
Update 5/31 (2nd Update) – Our team is still trying to solve the problem. I will probably not update again until we have made some progress. Thanks for your patience.
Update 6/2 – We think we have determined the cause of the problem. Changes have been made to avoid the problem in the future, but we cannot promise the problem will not resurface. Ribbit.
May 17th, 2010 at 6:22 am
thx for info
May 17th, 2010 at 6:59 am
thanks for info
May 17th, 2010 at 9:32 am
Thanks for the Info, and I apologise for my Rant by Email, glad it’s all sorted now though.
We wondered why you did not release a bulletin before hand, now it makes perfect sense, unforseen problems happens to us all
Thanks again
Pete
May 17th, 2010 at 10:35 am
just wanted to know why yous made the camfrog clients that if a person with older versions can open cams but the ones who have the latest version cant. its not a good idea to have it that way now an underage user can come in adult rooms and open an adult cam but moderators cant mod there room cause they are on an older version . this update was bass ackwards in my opinion
May 17th, 2010 at 10:38 am
DTA, we did not make Camfrog this way. It was a bug caused by the outage. It’s fixed now if you restart your client/server.
May 17th, 2010 at 3:46 pm
Great news to hear the push notifications are working. It was worth the 2 hours of waiting
May 17th, 2010 at 4:40 pm
I think Camfrog should have a live status page that can be updated in future anytime this happens. Being left in the dark for 2 hours is not very professional.
May 17th, 2010 at 4:52 pm
Dannozzzz, the push will be turned on later if everything is OK.
Aussiesly, this was unexpected so I was not ready, sorry. We will consider making some new system.
May 17th, 2010 at 6:28 pm
On multiple sites outside US I am coming up as a lurker when my Cam is on. Is this related to the outage or a server function. Never had this experience before. I am getting kicked for not being on Cam. 2197 eastern time us 5/17
May 18th, 2010 at 3:45 am
admin
i think can’t locet and can’t see user room list
May 18th, 2010 at 4:06 am
Why cant i view the friend finder of my camfrog pro??? and why cant i see the +18 room view list???
May 18th, 2010 at 4:08 am
Me too Skiner. I can’t locate users and I can’t open room list.
May 18th, 2010 at 4:11 am
above user’s problem is still an issue…room user list and video chat room list will not load (using version 5.5)
May 18th, 2010 at 4:20 am
uninstalled and reinstalled the client…it is now working
May 18th, 2010 at 11:17 am
I can’t generate any room or user lists. I can get into rooms that I already have selected as favourites and see video and hear sound in them.
May 18th, 2010 at 11:36 am
I am having the same problems as Skiner, my chat room list window just keeps spinning and spinning but never shows any of the rooms… and user locate is not working at all.
May 18th, 2010 at 11:37 am
We are working on the internal video chat room list problem. Thank you.
May 18th, 2010 at 11:57 am
why can’t i use my friend locator and my room list on my camfrog PRO??? please need an explanation immediately!!!
May 18th, 2010 at 12:19 pm
Camfrog are working on it cleverrette im sure it will be fixed soon its obviously a server side issue due to the outtage everything will be back soon im sure
May 18th, 2010 at 1:13 pm
Update 5/18 – The internal video chat room list and room locator service will be offline until tonight sometime between 9PM and midnight CST. Sorry for any inconvenience. We could reboot the entire system to solve this immediately, but we would prefer to fix this tonight instead and avoid a reboot. Please note that you can join any rooms manually as usual from your contact list or you can visit http://videochat.camfrog.com to view the list of rooms.
May 18th, 2010 at 2:12 pm
Thank you Craig, Im fed up of people asking me about this problem, least I can copy and paste this link.
PS: Don’t forget the Email I sent you about Codes please.
Pete
May 18th, 2010 at 2:26 pm
Camfrog’s also the problem still continues. Room lists and user profiles are not opened. Questions to be resolved in the hope that very soon.
Camfrog Turkey Representative
May 21st, 2010 at 2:17 pm
21st may and still problems !!!!!
any chance of an update ???
cheers
May 21st, 2010 at 3:56 pm
What problem Leo? Please be specific so I can investigate and please confirm the country you are in.
May 23rd, 2010 at 10:00 am
it will be good can stop turning a deaf ear and blind eye, answer please to my email
May 24th, 2010 at 10:13 am
hello
When will you understand that malicious users have found ways to deny us access to camfrog.
I know you did not believe it yet it’s real, I proposed the access to my server, you can see with your own eyes as hither.
May 28th, 2010 at 8:34 am
Hi,the last few hours i can’t log in or if i do it will be only after long long time.and then if i log in then in rooms evrything is so slow.is there any problem?i am located in Greece for your information
May 28th, 2010 at 8:51 am
I can’t log on. Are you having a problem ?
May 28th, 2010 at 11:34 am
we are all suffering from this problem
Disconnected: Server connection limit reached
There’s room for millions of IP addresses with TCP remote progressive
I believe that solving the problem that we must accept camfrog server ip only after verifying nick name.
May 29th, 2010 at 9:25 am
i like camfrog..bravo camfrog. I stay in Indonesia. I play camfrog it was 6 years. But now..i cannot sign to camfrog in home(out home i can). My connection is good. This is my IP 114.79.55.9. So far, i do good on camfrog. Thanks for ur help:).
May 29th, 2010 at 9:27 am
I can’t sign on my bot or nic on 2 camfrog still, i live in the US, and i left both the bot and my nic on last nite n woke up n there both still tryin 2 connect??
May 29th, 2010 at 9:31 am
Thks for info
May 29th, 2010 at 9:32 am
I been trying to logon since about 10:00am est this morning. It is now 12:30 and I can’t still logon. I am in Michigan USA. Just giving you an update of problem.
May 29th, 2010 at 9:42 am
The latest version 5.5.238 installs the Ask.com Toolbar, even though I declined it during the install dialogue.
This is not acceptable and is akin to the behaviour of malware.
Kindly remove this behaviour forthwith!
May 29th, 2010 at 9:59 am
Yes having trouble signing in again, happened yesterday also, up to my 12′th try
May 29th, 2010 at 10:00 am
hello, i just wanted to say that camfrog hasent been loging in anymore in over an hour.
i got loged out.. but logging in is impossible.. i hope im from the europe area.
May 29th, 2010 at 10:05 am
of course i meant to say that i cant log in, and i’m from the european area. (netherlands)
i hope the issue will be resolved quickly.
May 29th, 2010 at 10:28 am
hi i m not able to login in to Camfrog i tried several time but still not able to log in. when this problem will resolve?? i m from Asia , any idea about this
Thanks in advance
May 29th, 2010 at 11:08 am
Please scroll up to see our update. Sorry for the problem.
May 29th, 2010 at 11:43 am
Camfrog pro is not working anymore in the netherlands also. i have to deactivate to sign on, this is not for what i have payed for.
any solution for this problem??
Thanks in advance also
May 29th, 2010 at 4:19 pm
Thank you Yes its been Camfrog loggin long, i still go in the room SignLanguage. yesterday since…
May 29th, 2010 at 7:49 pm
When will you reply emails ???????
This is a serious problem that I want to stress, maybe you do not want to solve the problem
you prefer to leave these people (the owners _ITALIAN_SH0W_PASSION_ ) continued to harm on Camfrog???
May 30th, 2010 at 2:58 am
Hello Admin
When is the camfrog ready to solve this problem
It is goin now for 3 days now that there have login problems with the client en also with the server programm.
And why do there not make the end port radom from the server program.
If there attack some room and the end port is ramdom it helps a lot.
Just try it you wil see.
We try it out with 5.5 by hand
Thanks
May 30th, 2010 at 4:02 am
Hi oCo_ZipCode_oCo,
you can not do this.
The only solution is camfrog server should only accept IP Nickname.
Set the timeout to 30s
->> not accept and immediately close the connection
Server: new connection from 149.77.xxx.xxx:9024 registered with cid 1284
Server: new connection from 163.153.xxx.xxx:5888 registered with cid 1285
Server: new connection from 134.174.xxx.xxx:1088 registered with cid 1286
Server: new connection from 96.4.xxx.xxx:7744 registered with cid 1287
Server: new connection from 132.238.xxx.xxx:1280 registered with cid 1288
>> Accept connection only
Server: connecting NickName (1283) 79.9.xxx.xxx:1738
May 30th, 2010 at 4:43 am
aber nu weiß ich ja bescheid
tschüssssiiii
May 30th, 2010 at 5:39 am
All this problems for an iPhone application?
I prefer a better camfrog client for pc…especially for OSX.
Anyway i can’t log in,like the last days.
May 30th, 2010 at 5:41 am
No t talk about server 5.5
Not about 4.3
May 30th, 2010 at 5:42 am
Ok now I had a Video Error so I restart my camfrog Client, and now its forever (25 min already) trying to sign in just like my bots. Sigh, this is extremely frustrating. But Alas, I know your working on it…So I will try my best to be patient. Hope it gets the bugs out soon. Love ya’s Camfrog!
May 30th, 2010 at 6:06 am
Choose a different provider or have a backup server this is not a good thing that people cannot login.
May 30th, 2010 at 6:08 am
now frog client is signed in but for some reason, I cant Get Either of my bots signed on! I know its not your fault frog, but its still super frustrating to say the least…Only cause Im a huge WORD SCRAMBLE GEEK lol. Hope it gets fixed soon guys. Much love and hugs.
May 30th, 2010 at 6:23 am
hello
yup, its really frustrating now,hope it resolve soon.best of luck to network team.
May 30th, 2010 at 6:23 am
Thanks for the info Camfrog.
Times like this, is a Hosters im’s nightmare, but least we can send them this link, to explain what is going on
Pete
May 30th, 2010 at 7:32 am
How long is it going to take before you switch providers, if i had pro I would be asking for a refund as this has been going on now for the past week, whats it going to take for you guys to get this figued out, I have been sitting here for the past 45 min. trying to sign in, this is not funny anymore… ERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
May 30th, 2010 at 7:36 am
Thank for the update.
Its nice to be free of the Pull for a wile. Atleast i can not get some work done.
Thanks again
May 30th, 2010 at 7:54 am
Yeah, I totally agree with Walter. How can Camfrog, as a service provider, take so long to decide whether to change providers or not? Base case, there should already be a backup plan in place should something like this happen. Didn’t anybody think about this?
And to think I didn’t have any issues before I went Pro only a few days ago. Now I’m wondering if I really made the right decision to go Pro. I would advise anyone who is thinking about going Pro to think again, before parting with their hard-earned dollar!
Trust me, sitting here waiting for the darn thing to logon for the past 2hrs is no joke! And, I still haven’t managed to logon! ARGH!!!!!!!!!!
May 30th, 2010 at 8:55 am
I dont think us lot whining about the problem will make it go away im sure camfrog are working as hard as they can to get the problem resolved.
We just need to wait a little while.
May 30th, 2010 at 8:56 am
Walter – Mate at times systems do fail. and troubleshooting it is not as easy we think. A network issue is more complicated. Its not easy task to switch providers at flip of a finger.
We have to have some patience, Im sure the network team of CF is working to get this fixed. But sometimes, somethings just need time… !!
So lets all have some patience.
May 30th, 2010 at 9:05 am
Come on, fix this crap so we can get back to wasting our lives on CF!
May 30th, 2010 at 9:34 am
could you tell whats going on with camfrog is it closed for sometime now i can not log in
May 30th, 2010 at 10:35 am
I am sorry, but having patience is one thing but i have been sitting here for 6 hours trying to get signed on, I think I should get a pro code for waiting all this time, thats when if and when I am able to get signed on to Camfrog, what do you think.?
May 30th, 2010 at 10:36 am
Yep…frustrated too. I haven’t been able to log in since last night. I suppose I could actually go out and get some sun.
May 30th, 2010 at 10:44 am
lol Walter you have no chance of that ever happening reason being if they give you a a pro code every one else will want 1 to
May 30th, 2010 at 10:50 am
WHEN WILL WE BE ABLE TO CONNECT ???
THANKS FOR THE INFO
HOPE !!!!
May 30th, 2010 at 10:53 am
hi there its my Bday today we have event on our room hopw the problem will be ok soon i cant wait to fix the problems again and Morepower to the ADmins…. i will sleep and hopefully before my bday end i can online and have our room event god bless us all….
May 30th, 2010 at 10:58 am
How weak the ploy to try and get a free code….pay for the program then start complaining. Many of these people have paid alot for bots and servers. We arent asking for anything free…
May 30th, 2010 at 11:18 am
OMFG. It’s so frustrating. I am from Indonesia. Many of us need couple hours just for logging in. Hope this problem resolved ASAP. Camfrog, you are still the best~~
May 30th, 2010 at 11:43 am
there is serious issues with cf today . first it took nearly 3 hrs to sign in , now that my name signed in it shows all users and rooms offline, also the room list will not load , im running camfrog version 5.5.238 and its all messed up . someone respond to this please as i am about to leave this site as it tuned to nothing but shit anyways
May 30th, 2010 at 5:02 pm
the problem is gone now i guess :0)
May 30th, 2010 at 6:09 pm
Well done, CF. The problem resolved finally. Now I can easily sign in. Thanks. Great effort, indeed.
May 30th, 2010 at 8:32 pm
Still having trouble in login , to long delay until 10 – more connection trying
May 30th, 2010 at 8:36 pm
CF Team – The problem is back again…!! FYI
May 30th, 2010 at 9:51 pm
i got problem such last nignt, very hard to signed on
May 30th, 2010 at 10:05 pm
he probem continue this boring,be well all weekend, camfrog dies, as he continues so we will go all
May 30th, 2010 at 10:09 pm
how come im getting a hard time to go online, and its realy anoying ive been waiting for how long to log me on but i still cant go online..would you guys help me how to solve this problem..
May 30th, 2010 at 10:15 pm
Yep keeps loading and loading and loading ………….cant log on period. Big problem…..
May 30th, 2010 at 10:19 pm
Camfrog is logging in ………………………..
May 30th, 2010 at 10:58 pm
i ordered camfrog pro lastnight and i have only been able to sign on once since i got activated…..not very happy at all!
May 30th, 2010 at 11:38 pm
dammmmmmm…..IM FUCKING PISS OFF CUZZ I CANT LOG ON TO THE CAMFROG….AS I SEEN THAT EVERY BODY IS HAVING THE SAME PROBLES….IM NOW OK WITH THAT……HOPE THEY FIX THE PROBLEM SOON…..CUZZ I WHANA KEEP HAVING FUN ON CAMFROG……WILL U GUYS SENT ME A IMAIL WHEN THE PROBLEM IS SOLVED…..THANKS….
May 30th, 2010 at 11:52 pm
I think Camfrog rents the servers in thailand from Fasion (ThailandTos)
That is why it sucks right now
lol
Thare make some deal lol
hehehehe
May 31st, 2010 at 12:19 am
4 hours and i still cant sign on ???? looks like you should go with another provider .Hopefully the problem will be resolved by morning … oh well i guess just keep working at solving the problem or take my first suggestion.. lol
May 31st, 2010 at 12:34 am
I still have problems with logging in…. I really dont like it… But i hope that it will be resolved in a little while..
Thnx
May 31st, 2010 at 12:52 am
why…..i…cant.sign..in..now…any.one..can..tell…me..why…..iam…from.indonesia
May 31st, 2010 at 1:00 am
Still problems ??? so i suppose that camfrog could refund me my procodes bot serials and room serials for this
NO CAMFROG = MORE SLEEP
May 31st, 2010 at 1:20 am
:/ cant get on yet again……….but yeah thanks for info……….
May 31st, 2010 at 1:36 am
Hi guys, i have the same problem too….i cant login :’( it s a long time……
Could anyone help me?? : If I use camfrog server, users can log in and all is ok, but if i go inside, my webcam doesnt work….I think it s problem of setting my router but im not good on it….Any help? Thanks
May 31st, 2010 at 1:47 am
almost 5am here. east coast, US. Still trying to log in. It’s been like this for a few days now. I won’t spend hours trying to log in. I don’t have any special plans that require me to be in a chat room. lol. camfrog isn’t a huge part of my life.
But I am a pro user and if/when i want to sign in, I should be able to!
May 31st, 2010 at 1:51 am
i wanna know by camfrog why algerian and arabic peopel they are banned from camfrog they cant log on i dont mean about this server because i know about it but i mean it’s long time ago about one year past why they banned them ? which reason ?
May 31st, 2010 at 2:04 am
The problem is back again, can’t log in
May 31st, 2010 at 3:10 am
Camfrog have work in servers not panic =)
wait will back stable logon
Thanks
May 31st, 2010 at 3:12 am
still has sign in problem 3 day done and not fix yet (:
May 31st, 2010 at 3:25 am
this is taking piss i havnt been able to logon camfrog for 2 full days just says camfrog is signing in and you say be patient ive left it 3 hours and still not logged in i payed for a pro code for nothing if cant even log on is there a way to get a refund for my code ? ive paid for somthing i cant use thats faulse advertisment
May 31st, 2010 at 3:32 am
I am still experiencing log in problems. am a pro user too, lol.
May 31st, 2010 at 3:54 am
A update from Camfrog as to when this issue may be resolved would be most appreciated.
May 31st, 2010 at 4:10 am
oh god!
i could not login , ,
at first, i thought it’s my computer’s problem or internet connection problem.
but it’s camfrog server’s problem, right?
i’ve thought i cannot login to camfrog anymore.
at least, i knew that i can login after they fixed.
thanks,
May 31st, 2010 at 4:24 am
I totally agree with Aussiesly. An update is greatly appreciated.
Considering today is holiday in US, wondering will it get fixed even today.
An ETA would be good.
Good luck network team
Thanks
May 31st, 2010 at 4:24 am
Still can’t sign in at ther moment
May 31st, 2010 at 4:36 am
Not happy, this should have been sorted weeks ago when it first happened.
I paid for a service and I do not get the service.
This is wrong and should be fixed immediately.
Life without camfrog is just plain boring.
Paul
May 31st, 2010 at 4:40 am
i envy those already logged in..ggggrrrrrrrr
wonder what time i will be able to log in again…
May 31st, 2010 at 4:43 am
I so agree with all of Aussiesly’s comments at 1st I was thinking SHIT it’s a problem at my end with logging in (the camfrog eyes just keep on moving round and round and then keeps retrying) camfrog so need to left there game!!!
P.S lucky I found this on the blog…. well I forgot that camfrog even have a blog I found this in a google search otherwise i would still be left in the dark grrr :@ YES camfrog should have live update on there homepage that would be SO helpfull
May 31st, 2010 at 4:52 am
Ouch.. I cant connect to camfrog since hours. Today is the 31.05 – 1:50pm, location is Berlin/Germany.
May 31st, 2010 at 4:55 am
i been tryin to sign in now for 2 hours iv deleted programs rebooted downloaded new camfrogs and still nothing any ideas what time im goona b able to sign on im in uk n dnt get much time but wanted the whole day on here today what time am i lookin at admin plz
May 31st, 2010 at 5:07 am
Although I managed to login briefly this morning after 37 attempts, I can no longer do so, and this from Switzerland.
May 31st, 2010 at 5:12 am
125,238 users currently online – how comes? coz so much have still problems to login & finaly me too! i hope the cf team can fix it soon.
nice regards from germany and good luck
May 31st, 2010 at 5:44 am
for the last 3 days i have had login problems to, but after several attempts managed to login to cf, today however i have been trying to login for over 2 hours and am still getting spinning frog eyes and connection attempts, The only solution seems to be to NOT LOG OUT of camfrog! which is what i am now going to do until camfrog sort this problem out.
Raverbaby69 ( U.K )
May 31st, 2010 at 6:01 am
I have been experiencing log in problems for the past 2 days. Today oh well, I guess Camfrog is going to be done until they get this mess sorted out. Been trying to log on ALL day.
Hope Camfrog Admin is on top of this, and trying to get this mess sorted out.
May 31st, 2010 at 6:17 am
Try being a Hoster and dealing with all the messages of complaints, and theres nothing we can do.
Already lost one room bcus of it, we pay good money for over priced Server Pro Codes, we should expect a better Service for this, they don’t even offer Discounts (emails ignored).
Sort it Camfrog, before people start asking for refunds.
Live updates on the Camfrog Site is a good idea, or bring the Forum back, a Blog is ok, but Forums are where things like this can be discussed properly, and people who pay there good money (some without work/jobs)
This so we can give camfrog ideas how to improve there services.
“Two heads are better than one”
Pete
May 31st, 2010 at 6:27 am
Concerning about 4 day problem and network fixed again again.. Were there any potential attacks? and found the clues? ummmm…
May 31st, 2010 at 6:31 am
Mysteryshopper, we are unsure if it’s an attack or not. It could be but hopefully it’s just something on our side we are missing.
May 31st, 2010 at 6:44 am
Still could not login after 300 tries… Test in Taiwan. Please fix it! Thank you!
May 31st, 2010 at 6:44 am
I for one think this is utterly rediculous, being a paid user I don’t appreciate having to wait days to login etc im on my 150th login attempt and still nothing. It has been slower than molasses for the last 3 days logging in and today just has me searching for an alternative to camfrog. Ive been faithfully using this program for the last 5 years and this has me at my last straw. its no wonder rooms are half empty these days when half your users cant get logged in and there is always something thats causing someone an issue.
May 31st, 2010 at 7:07 am
How about going back, when Camfrog updated in the past days, and go from there. Reset the program, or take out was installed, so that we all ID USERS here on Camfrog, can continue using, while u guys sort out the problem.
May 31st, 2010 at 7:12 am
GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR 215 logging attempts and still spinning frog eyes, CAMFROG seriously need to sort this problem out myself and thousands of others are starting to get bad withdrawal symptoms…….
May 31st, 2010 at 7:15 am
Unfortunately some Camfrog users and rooms are spreading the rumor that we are closing. We are not closing. If we were closing I would not bother to update this Blog and our service would not be having sporadic problems. Instead it would just not work at all and our website would be offline.
We are not closing of course.
May 31st, 2010 at 7:21 am
HAHAHAHA @ closing down OMG thats just rumors going to the extreme
so there are problems so what it will get fixed at some point
keep the good work up Admins of Camfrog once you find the problem everyone will soon forget this ever happened
May 31st, 2010 at 7:24 am
Camfrog closing, you having a laugh, I heard thids rumour, and just block the pratt, he even sent me a Link, like im gna click on it hahaha!!
Camfrog is still the best Cam Chat software around, even though there going through a bad period at the present time.
Lets hope this new update, interface your releasing, we don’t have to go through all this again (that’s if it ever gets sorted).
Is this linked to your recent IPhone upgrade do you think??
As for these DDoS and Flooders, its about time Camfrog cut there losses and starting banning areas they are coming from, after all 90% don’t have Pro, and the Pro users are suffering bcus of it.
Pete
May 31st, 2010 at 7:30 am
Wow goodbye weekend. I hope you guys rest once you fix whatever’s wrong. Why not do a rollback? Seems like the issues started when you guys updated to support the iphone folks.
If that’s not the problem then investigate possible DDoS. We’ve been getting hit a lot lately on our boxes around the same time the login issues started.
May 31st, 2010 at 7:37 am
The problem does not seem to be related to the iPhone upgrades.
May 31st, 2010 at 7:50 am
yeh yeh W/E aint you ever heard the sayin if it AINT BRUK DONT FIX IT??? cos ya bloody bruk it now attempt 600 and counting grrrrrrrrrrrrrr
May 31st, 2010 at 7:52 am
Well, I have rooms signed on, and then they sign off, so I am guessing DDoS attacks is the likely cause, or a Trojan in your Servers Network somewhere.
As Rooms are already signed in and then they go offline.
I think we would all be ok with a complete re-boot, rather than continue like this.
What a Bank Holiday weekend, well least gives everyone a chance to have a real life with the Family and Friends i guess..lol
And a thought for those Camfrog Network Enginers working to try and solve this problem.
May 31st, 2010 at 7:53 am
If attack possible, put guard server, and monitoring those incoming damn malicious traffic. We need Camfrog to be protected.
May 31st, 2010 at 7:54 am
But it is broke an they are fixing it !!!!! lol
hi Raver btw <<<3
May 31st, 2010 at 8:10 am
alright so finally i got logged in on try 250.. not fun
May 31st, 2010 at 8:11 am
well its bloody broken now init martin <3333 lmfao
May 31st, 2010 at 8:24 am
The secret to Camfrog NEVER LOG OFF (just a tip boys and girls)
if it will make you all feel better you ain’t missing a thing top room is just over 200 users second around 40 bottom room on front page is 8 users
unless you all log on together you gonna get here and be just as bored !!!!!
May 31st, 2010 at 8:39 am
I agree with NoDrAmaUk’s idea. Complete re_boot! Shutting down your system for couple minutes is of course understandable and ‘forgivable’ rather than awaiting the uncertain damn shit like this. My Bot has been waiting for logging into my room for 5 hours like queuing in front of World Cup ticket box. Lools.
May 31st, 2010 at 8:43 am
im never logging out again after this
May 31st, 2010 at 8:43 am
How am i supposed to smoke without camfrog .,lol ?
May 31st, 2010 at 8:46 am
It has bin 4 days now. And able to log on two times, what it makes even worse is getting kicked for not having a cam, when you do have a cam, i have to hit the pouse button then hit it again to get my cam to show in the room,
May 31st, 2010 at 8:48 am
Mine 11 servers were not able to connect Camfrog Server. I was not able to login camfrog too. It been loading 93 times
May 31st, 2010 at 8:57 am
well this problems gave some users in the general channel that CamFrog will be terminated… so can you please hurry up and fix this problem because this event really freak us out …
May 31st, 2010 at 8:59 am
There are plenty of ways to stop attacks on servers from people who think its funny to DDoS a server……and there is some very effective programs out there.
Remember people google is your friend lol
i got to log attempt 700 today and thats after i went into town and did some shopping and came back and still hade to wait 30 minute lol
oh well bugs are bugs im sure it will be fixed soon failing that im sure camfrog will decide to cut there losses with there current provider and go back to one they used before where there was no problems.
May 31st, 2010 at 9:03 am
Same here in Manchester UK
Been off for a good several hours now with the logon problem timing out.
Hope it gets reasolved soon
Regards
May 31st, 2010 at 9:04 am
just leave camfrog signed in then u wont have to waste time logging in.
May 31st, 2010 at 9:05 am
Hi Buddy! How much longer we have to wait?? How soon you gonna channge this bloody service provider?? Huhhh!!
May 31st, 2010 at 9:07 am
when this will be fix……do something about it please
May 31st, 2010 at 9:11 am
you would have thought after 3 days of this they would just go ok, enough is enough, lets change our provider back right now. Only explanation? There current one is cheaper lolz
May 31st, 2010 at 9:16 am
Been trying to log in for 5 hours now
glad other machine without pro was logged on already forgot just how good pro is till I had to use old machine. Pity they cant sort out the login problem tho
May 31st, 2010 at 9:17 am
Just waiting for connection since 10.30am, now 06.13pm and the eyes still rolling, something new ?
Ah sorry, Italy here
May 31st, 2010 at 9:21 am
Being a Disabled Vet…I wanted to use CF to visit with my family and friends world wide…thx CF for ruining my day
May 31st, 2010 at 9:24 am
I am sorry but waiting for the iPhone client to login for so long is simply unacceptable.
I actually considered purchasing a pro key but now I see I made a good call on waiting it out. I vote for a complete reboot of the servers instead of a few days of problems.
If you don wish to wait for this than switch providers!
Admin, please reply to my message
also. Please open up a forum for users to discuss this situation and future ones. A closes forum is useless.
May 31st, 2010 at 9:28 am
I’ve been having also camfrog problems, the site is excellent… I’m sure the bugs will be sorted and things will be back to normal…. Lets just hope for the best..
DJ_TIMOTHY
Milwaukee, WI USA
May 31st, 2010 at 9:28 am
So basically every continent that is not connected to the north and shouth american mainland has this problem…..
I had a similar problem with a servercompany in the us years ago, managed.com i think it was,
Only american/canadian users could easily connect to the server, after many support ticket traffic conclusion was that the server was connected to some bad functioning ‘carriers’ to overseas, and they gave me an other server connected to proper functioning ‘carriers’.
Probaply not the problem camfrog is having, but the signs are the same, little to no connections from and to good overseas ‘carriers’.
Do several route traces from several continents and maybe see where the packets get lost or misdirected and there you have the bad ‘carriers’
Experience is a wise teacher.
Greets duncstah;)
May 31st, 2010 at 9:51 am
I can confirm logon problems from Italy
bye
May 31st, 2010 at 9:57 am
Thanks for the explanation duncstah, you were very kind, we hope that all settle down soon, bye
May 31st, 2010 at 10:07 am
just wanted to say thanks i know your team has been working very hard to resolve this issue however, i cant help but wonder why its taking to long? also dont you have some sort of SLA with your provider? also congratulations on camfrog.. the application rocks
May 31st, 2010 at 10:27 am
Hello Camfrog,
Please STOP using those fake ‘social’ engineering sites
as your ‘official’ information sites. They are for social engineering and NOT for official information dessemination of information!! That is a usurpation of your real responsibility. You have a Blog and IF you had some brains , would re-open your forums.
Having sites that are NOT Camfrog, is silly and dumb. Does this mean you cannot make a forum that is secure? If that is the case, why would we believe you have control of a third party site??? We are not impressed !
May 31st, 2010 at 10:30 am
You are having outtages beyond your programatic control. Why do you allow this? FACEBOOK?l , My Space??? how bogus.
May 31st, 2010 at 10:48 am
On the bright side, no more distractions while I work on the linux bot plugins
On the other hand, there’s no way to test them without logging on hahaha
Could we have a developer friendly server and bot for testing plugins offline? Long shot but would be much appreciated
May 31st, 2010 at 10:52 am
The Eyes just spin round and round and round hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm lost count lol. Oh well, in few hours, days lol Camfrog will get back up again.
the eyes have spinning around and round since 11:30 am Germany time today, it is now 8pm, round and round the eyes are spinning.
May 31st, 2010 at 10:54 am
Well, after 4 hours of camfrog trying to sign on, the client finally did. However, my server is still down and so are my bots. I understand this is hard on camfrog admins as well, you must be as completely frustrated as I am. Im sure we all are, but its only because we have ALL come to LOVE Camfrog so very much. I sincerely hope that this issue gets fixed soon.Much love<333
May 31st, 2010 at 10:58 am
THANKS, please keep us in the United States updated, THANKS AGAIN!!!!
May 31st, 2010 at 11:02 am
Logged on at last dont think I’ll log off when I go out
May 31st, 2010 at 11:15 am
still cant log on
May 31st, 2010 at 11:30 am
For all germans:
Neuigkeiten für alle die Login-Probleme mit dem Camfrog Video Chat haben,
Camfrog ist bemüht dieses Problem so schnell wie es nur Menschenmöglich ist zu beseitigen. Das Camfrog-Team hat viel Zeit und Geld investiert um euch eine Lösung bereit zu stellen, leider war diese Art von Problem nicht vorhersehbar. Camfrog ist bemüht, dass solch ein Problem nicht erneut auftreten wird. Wir werden euch über dieses Problem weiterhin Bericht erstatten.
Camfrog bittet euch um Geduld…
May 31st, 2010 at 11:39 am
Can’t log on to the Camfrog Client. U still havin problems??
thx
May 31st, 2010 at 11:44 am
For me the camfrog is not working, but for my friends working, why? It’s a problem from me or from the server?
May 31st, 2010 at 11:56 am
People i know all getting sick off wenting too get in camfrog but please people come on this does not happen everyday they are trying there best too get this sortted some people need to have respect for camfrog then are trying… If can not get on camfrog then oh well there is other sites can chill on for little bit like Facebook and then went for camfrog sign in when you do get on camfrog don’t sign back out then will not have the siging in problem…LIKE CAMFROG SAY HERE (Our team has been working for over 40 hours now during the US Holiday while trying to determine a way to solve this problem. When they find a solution I will update you. Any downtime is unacceptable and we spend major time and money to make sure it never happens, but this situation is unique and unexpected in a way we could never prepare for in advance).
May 31st, 2010 at 11:57 am
frog problem does not end.Why do not permit the entry access for the server.I know my opinion is done by data center.We can not find an open one port.
changere data center.
May 31st, 2010 at 12:07 pm
ooooooooooooooooooooo..thx godddddddddddddd..at last..it got login..i m afraid now that if i logout again ..i cant again login…so i kept it log in…till tomarrow
May 31st, 2010 at 12:10 pm
Hey i still cant log in must be a big pain in the butt for the guys on the other end i am in usa chicago il
good luck
May 31st, 2010 at 12:35 pm
Just logged in from Australia
May 31st, 2010 at 12:39 pm
Question now is how many actually did Email Camfrog and say thank you for sorting this issue during there Holiday break
Great work Admins
May 31st, 2010 at 12:43 pm
Hopefully we can figure out what’s going on, it’s a strange situation. We have done a lot of things and nothing is working so far.
May 31st, 2010 at 12:52 pm
Admin most are signing on now top room uk/usa are now over 1000 users from the 100 all day
as normal they wont come back and say there logged on
May 31st, 2010 at 1:27 pm
Hi Admin,
Sorry to hear that and I wish I could help.
I just can wish you luck to solved this unique problem soon.
Camfrog never dies
May 31st, 2010 at 1:31 pm
finally i can sign in, good job camfrog team, well done
May 31st, 2010 at 1:37 pm
Have all pro code users lost their license? loggin in is possible but after activating pro code the message is: pro code is not valid anymore!
Refund or re-activate camfrog?
May 31st, 2010 at 2:21 pm
the login is working but still takes more than 1 attempt ive logged out just to test takes between 5 n 10 attempts thats on the uk side of things anyway
May 31st, 2010 at 2:51 pm
Nice work admins
it logs on pretty good now 
thanks for your hard work hope you keep it up … take care of CamFrog because many lives are depending on it 
they bring CamFrog anywhere 
…
May 31st, 2010 at 2:58 pm
Hmmm… the rooms sound and cams appear to be down here @ european..
everyone has this problem.. My the server has just shut down
May 31st, 2010 at 3:03 pm
Looking good here guys. Thanks camfrog Tech and Network for sorting it out during the Bank Holiday.
All looking good my end, all 152 Rooms and 76 Bots now signed in, everyone is happy at last!!!
Congrats from all the NoDrAmaUk Hosting Team and our Clients, and for making the rest of our last day (Bank Holiday) that little quieter
Pete
May 31st, 2010 at 3:11 pm
Zoomshorts:….
really helpful comments, i can really see that the whole problem is caused by social networking sites, i really have no idea why no one spotted that before, it a complete mystery
May 31st, 2010 at 3:18 pm
i finally got on after 6 frigging hours and over 800 login attempts, so i am not going to be signing off for the foreseeable future until all these issues are sorted i sujest others do the same after the events of the last week of so
May 31st, 2010 at 3:37 pm
Maybe while camfrog are trying to fix the login issues they might have a look at the perodic lagg that occurs like every 4-5 minutes where the room just freezes for like a second and then continues as normal, it is very annoying and interupts peoples conversastions
May 31st, 2010 at 3:42 pm
Things seems to work now, not sure if its momentarily. Time will tell.
Great Job Team Camfrog. Much appreciated.
If its resolved – Would be great, If you can share with us what the issue or real culprit was. I’m sure everyone here would love to know what caused the biggest outage of CF ever and how the smart engineers resolved it.
Keep up the good work. Thanks Again…
May 31st, 2010 at 4:43 pm
thanks for all the hard work admins i got back online at 2030hrs gmt british time
May 31st, 2010 at 5:03 pm
It looks like the restored and recovered service has been done. How is server central service status? Hopefully it will be OK for tomorrow. We pray for it.
TY
May 31st, 2010 at 5:13 pm
Thanks Camfrog team!!! Camfrog been up since 8:30 pm German European time. it is now 02:11 am, hopefully it is not a temp thing. but the other night, Camfrog came back online like last night. So lets see if we can keep it up and running. Thanks again Camfrog. (Y)
May 31st, 2010 at 6:33 pm
Greetings Camfrog admins,
Just read through all (well most) of the comments here… lots of negativity, while the logon problem was frustrating I see that today I was able to login instantly and enjoyed a lag free experience for the first time in awhile. Kudos to you and your team, you’re doing a great job!
May 31st, 2010 at 7:19 pm
We’re still having issues… I can only get 2 bots out of 10 from one of our bot servers to login…
Here’s the output we get from the logs:
[2010/06/01 10:13:09] 8 : CS client : could not open connection due to connection limit; reconnecting
May 31st, 2010 at 10:27 pm
Update to get around connection limit error for those of you using multiple linux 5.0 bots:
Start the daemon first:
# /etc/init.d/camfrogbot start
Manually stop the bots that aren’t logging in, wait a while, then start them manually:
# /etc/init.d/camfrogbot stop {BOT_NAME}
# /etc/init.d/camfrogbot start {BOT_NAME}
Voila logged in!
June 1st, 2010 at 12:47 am
Camfrog Is Good Now
June 1st, 2010 at 1:41 am
Guys, I was preparing to buy a pro code, as I am a frequent user of camfrog.
no way in hell that I will ever do that !
I cannot pay for such unprofessional service. I am an IT manager myself and I have to deal with outages, but if my engineers would deal with outages the way “camfrog” does, we would be out of business !
1. in a public service environment (especially when you make money from it), you cannot publicly come and say: we have no clue what’s happening. it’s simply….. unprofessional.
2. having no back-up lines and scenarios it’s UNHEARD OF !!!! how do you even think of dealing with crisis situations if you haven’t got any “worst case scenario” prepared ?
3. charging money for a service you’re not even controlling, a service that has no uptime guaranty, it’s… not correct. you should lower your PRO code fee to a symbolic $ 0,99 until you OFFER PROFESSIONAL SOLUTIONS. cause that’s what it’s worth it, in the actual conditions.
one last of advice: next time you have an issue of such magnitude, INFORM THE USERS, on your main webpage, there where you propose: DOWNLOAD CAMFROG and PAY FOR CAMFROG. let them know what’s happening so they don’t imagine their PCs or connections are the issues.
June 1st, 2010 at 1:56 am
login issues seem to be fixed. cheers guys
June 1st, 2010 at 2:50 am
I will tell you the problem!!!!! Its the punk hackers terrorizing rooms because they have no life. Seven ppl getting pinged at once in a room, then the rooms lags out. I have complained to the server and also camfrog about the hackers and even given their ips.. nothing can be done I guess. Even though we pay for a room we are at the mercy of punk hackers with no jobs and time on their hands to ping ppl all day long over and over and over and over. Camfrog ITS BULLLLLLL do something about it. I will not negotiate with terrorists.
June 1st, 2010 at 2:53 am
@frogfusion
You can mutliple bot only copied sample-bot nicknames
1.Bot1
2.Bot2
need be
chown -R /etc/camfrogbot.d/bot1
chown -R /etc/camfrogbot.d/bot2
you type start bot
service camfrogbot start
will be online 2 bots.
Thanks
June 1st, 2010 at 5:51 am
@CasperPL
We have 10 bots on each bot server, when camfrog started having login issues only 2 of those 10 bots would log in, the others get stuck and refuse to log in after starting the daemon:
/etc/init.d/camfrogbot start
or service camfrogbot start alternatively as you put it.
So my post above is a temporary work-around until camfrog stops blocking the other bots from logging in too fast.
Thanks
June 1st, 2010 at 6:22 am
iPhone client still got problems connecting
June 1st, 2010 at 6:52 am
@frogfuzion
i think you use 1 code = 1 bot?
but can more you edit camfrogbot.conf maybe add name bot.
But i’m not online camfrog and i’m sick now.
thanks m8
June 1st, 2010 at 3:31 pm
Does anyone understand why in PRO when you open multiple windows the video feed stops in about 30 seconds. Prior to the outage always got continuous video feed with multiple cams as I have PRO but now, the video shuts off in less than a minute.
Is this something that Camfrog has started to save on bandwidth or what? PRO should not do this and I would appreciate an email from the admin at CF explaining this and why its happening. It is REALLY ANNOYING!!!!
June 2nd, 2010 at 2:45 am
2:10am PST 6-2-10. Pulled the room list up and only the Deutche room was opnline. I have never ever in now 6 years seen that ever happen. Slowly rooms are coming back. This is simply a server-side issue with the provider for Camfrog. Do I see, perhaps hope? GoDaddy in the future? There service on both the tech and customer service side in uinlike any other in the industry. You call them, tell them the issue, answer there questions and what needs to be done gets done. Yeah they cost abit more than some but remember you get what you pay for.
June 2nd, 2010 at 8:04 am
“admin Says:
May 31st, 2010 at 12:43 pm
Hopefully we can figure out what’s going on, it’s a strange situation. We have done a lot of things and nothing is working so far.”
Sometimes, you just HAVE TO DOWNGRADE and put things back the way they were. Upgrades that break things are not upgrades.
Life in the software world is like that. Do you not have back-ups???
June 2nd, 2010 at 9:55 am
Dang zoomshorts if only they had consulted you, engineers could have spent time with their families rather than work over a holiday weekend. I am sure you will be consulted for your valuable input should Camfrog experience technical difficulties in the future.
Thanks to camfrog staff who obviously worked tirelessly to get the situation resolved. As with any service, downtime is to be expected occasionally. My cable TV fails far more than Camfrog, its slightly more frustrating when frog fails simply because its far more entertaining!
Thank you again.
June 2nd, 2010 at 2:37 pm
Has the problem been resolved? June 2, 2:30pm and I am still not able to log on.
June 2nd, 2010 at 6:23 pm
All working fine for now
TNX to all the people that participated to make things work again .all they have to do now is upgrade security on ID’s
Too many Lamers are stealing camfrog ID’s
is it possible to integrate more security in Camfrog ??
maybe secret question to change e-mail??
even after disinstalling camfrog and even when not saving password ,the information of password and pro is always present in the registry and can be easily taken by lamers
PLEASE HELP
June 2nd, 2010 at 8:58 pm
Hello,
Hello admin, why my room have banned :@ :@ :@ , my room never play record, but admin always banned my room, coz i pay about code and not get free about my code.. So SAD.
unfair competition and bad personal ADMIN
this my room ” oOo__INDONESIA__SUPER__FANTASY__oOo “
June 3rd, 2010 at 4:53 am
@Aussiee
Please read on rules:
http://www.camfrog.com/terms.phtml
,ean you will be understand.
Thank you
June 3rd, 2010 at 7:40 am
GKDj , apparently you think ‘social engineering sites’ are the correct place to post information. I disagree. I believe that the old Camfrog forum was sufficient. You must be new here ….
Only official sites with Camfrog’s total control of the site are valuable. The rest are a bunch of third party sites. Camfrog needs to isolate their stuff from the common, crap ridden places. Just my opinion.
June 3rd, 2010 at 11:11 am
still not sorted.
have 3 id’s – 1 id worked ok this afternoon.
all 3 id’s now logging in but no room lists coming up.
THIS IS CRAZY
June 3rd, 2010 at 12:37 pm
@leo
please sent to helpdesk@camfrog.com
will be you sorted.
Thanks
June 3rd, 2010 at 2:07 pm
Good work Camfrog
I think the problem became solved!
Regards…
June 3rd, 2010 at 6:44 pm
Has the problem been resolved? June 3, 6:45pm and I am still not able to log on.
June 4th, 2010 at 4:13 am
Hi MikeTN,
I don’t know how it looks on other Contries, I just can say, in Germany, we don’t have a login problem again.
Regards…
June 4th, 2010 at 10:02 am
Dear Admin,
My room had just been banned. To let U know that my room was one of strictest rooms in Asia Zone (18+) in the matter of rule: No Pre-recorded video; No racism; etc. In short, my room was IN LINE WITH Camfrog TOS. But, why did it get banned? Okay, it was a rumor that the banning was related to a female nick assumed as a recorded video in my room. The nick was F_R4 and she get banned as well
But, I CONVINCE you 100% that F_R4 was a real one and LIVE, not a pre-recorded nor recorded video. It’s so mysterious for me since my room had already been banned 4 times with no clear reason and forced me to change the name of the room again and again and again. For your information, my room was a famous and huge room in Asia Zone. Now, I lost my room. Admin, I need your explanation for this “unfair action”.
My room: VIP__INDONESIAN_ACTION_EXOTIC_SHOW__VIP
I look forward to your response either trough this blog or my email.
Thank You
Nagabrahman
June 4th, 2010 at 8:50 pm
The problem is back again . . what i paid for?
just nothing?
June 5th, 2010 at 12:46 am
@NAGABRAHMAN
They’ve started enforcing the no nudity rule in their TOS for 18+ rooms.
June 5th, 2010 at 2:11 am
Hello all
The camfrog can better close the 18+ zone in Asia
And all want to know way I think
Country’s like China Thailand the Philippines and some more cant have show rooms anymore.
If there is come some TOS then they banned your room.
Also if you have a bot in Thai in some other zone and show girls you get banned.
The same story for some other country’s again
And now I think there cleanup Indonesia.
So the next zone is EU lol and then the UK and then no 18+ rooms anymore.
lol
Then we have to look for some other chat program
You know what the China and Thailand government say.
Camfrog Close that sex rooms or we close the camfrog.
And then Camfrog yes good country’s we do we must sell a lot pro codes we do what you say but please don’t close or cut or of from your country.
But is we open a 18+ room in that zones we will be banned ore banned ore codes.
So that we need to buy new codes again.
Thanks Camfrog good job to take you down for that country’s.
Is this what we call freedom..
But never mined i already have no 18+ rooms anymore in that Asia zone.
And now you know what there is going on NAGABRAHMAN.
June 5th, 2010 at 10:51 am
ADMIN, YOU HAVE TO BE MORE PROFESSIONAL WHEN YOU WANNA BAN A ROOM. YOU HAVE TO CHECK MORE CAREFULLY. IF NECESSARY, ASK TO OWNER OF THE ROOM FIRST JUST TO CONFIRM THAT THERE IS A KIND OF VIOLATION AGAINST CAMFROG TOS. IT IS SO EMBARRASSING AND RIDICULOUS WHEN YOU BAN A ROOM WITHOUT CLEAR REASON AND EVIDENCE. IT IS A KIND “VIOLATION”, I THINK. TO LET YOU KNOW, THERE IS UNFAIR COMPETITION AMONG ROOMS ESPECIALLY IN ASIA ZONE AND “BACKSTABBERS” ARE STILL RAMPANT THERE. FOR INSTANCE, THEY COME TO ROOM AND MAKE A KIND OF SLANDER SUCH AS POSTING PRE-RECORDED VIDEO!
THANK YOU AGAIN
NAGABRAHMAN
June 5th, 2010 at 11:15 am
@frogfuzion: Really?? Lmao.
@oCo_ZipCode_oCo: Perhaps some admins are \fundamentalists\ and wanna launch a program called \fundamentalization of Camfrog\. loools.
Guys, nice to meet you
June 5th, 2010 at 7:27 pm
yes even now my room client still wondering why they still get room banned, although they already no pre recorded video or show that agains TOS , for knowing they already make maybe more than 10 room at this mounth , i already ask in email and they try to email too but same result NEVER GET REPLIED
June 6th, 2010 at 6:30 am
@Tama, I am sorry to hear that. I had also sent the same complaining email like you did to helpdesk@camfrog.com on May 24th just after my room getting banned. So sad, the email has never been replied till NOW. Guess what, the profile TQZ, a female owner of my room, was disabled almost on the same time by camfrog admin. I convinced that there was a completely error analysis on this case. She was most likely assumed by the admin as pre-recorded video. Note, I was there and there was no single pre-recorded video. Morever, TQZ was my best friend and lost her nick afterward
I then made a contact with an admin who came to my room in last minutes before the banning taken place. I suspected him, of course. But he said that he was not the guy who banned my room, but could be “anonymous monitors”. The term made me sick obvious! Did Camfrog ever think that “invisible troops” could often be taking actions like secret operations to terminate room/nickname only based on “assumption”? It’s much better for Camfrog to dismiss the unprofessional “secret agents” for the sake of fair play or, in line with frogfuzion and zipcode, close the 18+ zone. lools.
June 6th, 2010 at 1:49 pm
Hello All,
All Camfrog need do to check for violations in rooms, is to send a normal user into a room and open cams. This is not too hard to figure out.
Most rooms do not require face on camera to help disclose the user’s age and gender. It is up to the room owners and their agents to enforce the TOS and room rules. Camfrog has no obligation to do that. All Camfrog does is verify complaints they receive from users.
By Agents, I mean OP’s ,OP + and Co-Owners. I would not allow ANY co-owners in a room at all, and I would require all OP’s to understand just how a room can be shut down. Most OP’s are honorary, they actually do not do much. It is up to the real owner to require their people in power to understand the TOS and the room rules. It is for the paying owner’s protection.
June 7th, 2010 at 2:30 am
why is it i cant access the profiles of my friends??? it always kept saying that the friends name i have does not exist…the problem is all of my friends dont exist whenever i view their profiles! why is this??? and one more thing…you owe to the viewers of the 18+ why your software are selling hot like pancakes here in the Pihilippines!!! Try stopping these rooms then its just like saying…close your room or your application software as well, i paid a pro code only for the satisfaction on the 18+ rooms…then youre gonna close or banned that room?! shame on you…do something else and not just by closing the rooms…you at camfrog have competitors…do that and we shall be forced to go there…and what in return shall happen to your business? in time camfrog itself will be banned due to bankrupcy…heed this warning enforce stricter rules…but not this way…think of something else ok!!!
June 7th, 2010 at 5:59 am
@Zoomshorts be right
June 7th, 2010 at 8:17 am
@NAGABRAHMAN Yes really lol. I wish it weren’t true, but they’ve repeatedly banned one of our rooms for shows in the 18+ Philippines zone. They’re using clause #6 in their TOS, kind of sad they’d decide to do this all of a sudden.
18+ is made for adults, wish they’d at least give the adults the freedom to have some fun, or at least just ban the alleged violator, not the whole room.
@Camfrog, if you wish to lessen the amount of nudity in certain zones, wouldn’t it be more productive to ban a user instead? When the individual is punished they’re more likely to stop. When a room gets punished, owners will call it unfair.
June 7th, 2010 at 1:33 pm
Banning a specific user is hard to do. People lie and fake their IP addresses. It is easier to ban an entire region or country.
It is not a good thing, but it is easier to BAN an entire country. Freedom to have fun is nice, BUT when underaged kids can lie about their age, what can Camfrog do?
Should Camfrog ban an entire country or geographical region? There are gazillions of IP addresses and subnets that can be assigned to the internet.
Do you want your area to be banned due to a few idiots? Does your country allow children to be exposed to adult content? If so, then you need to be ready to find your area banned. Such is life.
Your job is to find these violators and STOP them on your home ground. You need to police your own country OR Camfrog may have to do it themselves.
June 7th, 2010 at 10:21 pm
@Frogfuzion, I prefer to vote the TOS violator (user) get banned rather than room. To borrow your nice term, it will absolutely be more “productive” if Camfrog do that. Now, you may think, my room is a huge one and often reaching beyond 1000 users. Should I check them one by one? Lmao. Of course, I will punish the under age, but what can I do when, for instance, the admin come to my room and the under age come afterward? It will be ridiculous if the admin disable my room with saying, “Nagabrahman, your room has allowed under age and you do nothing”. looooolz.
@Zoomshorts. I do understand your logic, dude. That’s nothing wrong with your line: “Your job is to find these violators and STOP them on your home ground.” However, I and my fellow owners/operators are not such dumber to allow them. haha. If my room capacity is 20 users only, the problem will be easily to be overcome, but it allow 2000 users and my room got banned when it reached hundreds of users. Should I decrease it? haha.
@Camfrog. Let say that the problem is under age (-18) and according to TOS the 17 of age is prohibited to enter the adult zone. Then, do you have knowledge to differentiate those who are 18 of age with those who are 17, for example? If yes, give me the knowledge then; if no, so do I. It’s, of course, a complicated problem. To me, it will be more “productive” if you make a kind of cooperation with owners to fix this. For instance, ask to them to confirm whenever you find alleged TOS violators in a room. It’s not impossible to be done, right? Your business persisted and owners could run their rooms safely. The “win-Win Solution” is the best, isn’t it?
ROOM BANNING IS NOT THE ANSWER~~
June 8th, 2010 at 3:13 am
I think the camfrog is not listen to his users.
And also not look what the TOS people are doing in the Asia zone.
And they do not give any shit about the hosting people.
I think it is all only about money.
What I think is that is going to loss Asia zone if the camfrog is not listen to that country’s.
That is why they also give you not any replay back
But believe on thing from me please Asia zone is gone lol
All dos tos people play together.
And is all about money.
And if I ask the camfrog to change some small thing in the software so that there can stop about 75% for that dos and botnet attacks they also do not hear you.
And then Zoomshorts is knowing where I am talking about.
Dos country’s say jut to the camfrog stop to make show rooms in that Asia zone or we cut you off.
So that is what the camfrog is now
I scheme my self now for the camfrog that they are from the USA.
And that some other country can say to the camfrog you have to do this and that.
Come on Camfrog open your eyes.
From how is the camfrog.
Not from the government country’s I me hope.
The camfrog is for the people who are in it.
Oke thanks again I have spoken again
June 8th, 2010 at 8:27 am
oCo_ZipCode_oCo Says:
June 8th, 2010 at 3:13 am
I think the camfrog is not listen to his users.
And also not look what the TOS people are doing in the Asia zone.
And they do not give any shit about the hosting people.
I think it is all only about money.
What I think is that is going to loss Asia zone if the camfrog is not listen to that country’s.
That is why they also give you not any replay back
But believe on thing from me please Asia zone is gone lol
All dos tos people play together.
And is all about money.
And if I ask the camfrog to change some small thing in the software so that there can stop about 75% for that dos and botnet attacks they also do not hear you.
And then Zoomshorts is knowing where I am talking about.
Dos country’s say jut to the camfrog stop to make show rooms in that Asia zone or we cut you off.
So that is what the camfrog is now
I scheme my self now for the camfrog that they are from the USA.
And that some other country can say to the camfrog you have to do this and that.
Come on Camfrog open your eyes.
From how is the camfrog.
Not from the government country’s I me hope.
The camfrog is for the people who are in it.
Oke thanks again I have spoken again
<<<<< I agree with you.
but this does not happen in asia, ca also happening in Europe.
Now it's even worse, people intentioned mals have found a way to banish us and it does not come from camfrog.
June 8th, 2010 at 8:47 am
Zipcode,
That’s great that you have a solution for stopping all DDOS attacks that’s just a “small thing in the software”. Please introduce this “small thing” and charge money for it so you can become an instant billionaire. We will buy it immediately along with every other Internet company in the world.
We are implementing some changes to our software and even considering introducing new applications to help this, but it’s not a “small thing in the software” to fix it. Please be patient while we work on a solution that helps with this problem. Unfortunately there will probably never be a solution that stops all types of attacks on servers.
We use the exact same Camfrog Server software as everyone else in our Camfrog Hosted rooms and we understand your frustration. If there was a simple fix we would implement it of course. There is no advantage for us to hold back software updates or fixes.
Hopefully our future changes will help with the problems you are having but there will probably never be a 100% fix against attacks on Internet servers.
June 8th, 2010 at 10:06 am
@zipcode
have http://www.d-guard.com/ this is protection attack DDoS for server camfrog try pay 350 $ on year.
Thanks
June 8th, 2010 at 2:36 pm
CasperPL I dont talk about DDos attacks that is easy to stop
I talk about BotNet attacks
June 8th, 2010 at 2:44 pm
oCo_ZipCode_oCo You’re lucky you admin responds Up not yet there several concerns that I wish they fare share, but alas I have no answers yet there are big flaws in their software they would be glad to know.
sorry for english
June 8th, 2010 at 2:49 pm
O and Admin thit i say for 100%
I think not
Just make the end port random that is all and i say it will help for 75% if you read back it Admin.
But thanks for the response
And i dont want any money for it i am happy with i have now
What must is do with all that money than i need bodyguards lol
June 9th, 2010 at 1:45 am
Here is a way to control the attacks. When a Camfog server connects to the network, only add that server and it’s IP address. Non-camfrog servers or addresses need to be blocked by default. In this way, only legitimate Camfrog traffic is allowed on the network.
Camfrog servers login using a code. Even the free servers do so. All Camfrog need do is only allow traffic from Camfrog servers and clients. Block ALL other traffic. There is no reason to allow other connections.
June 9th, 2010 at 5:30 am
Zoomshorts, the attacking IP addresses are almost always spoofed or hidden so it would make no difference.
Also if you blocked all traffic besides what’s logged on no new users could ever logon or join.
June 9th, 2010 at 5:58 am
The attacks are not being sent through the Camfrog servers, they originate from outside. If the server host/room owner only allows traffic from Camfrog, then people could login just fine. All that other traffic should be rejected. Each room or user must login through the Camfrog main server.
Camfrog validates each user before transferring them to the room of their choice. Server owners should exclude any traffic that is not directly passed through Camfrog to their rooms. It does take some expertise to configure one’s server to reject the unwanted traffic, but it can be done. That is all I am saying.
June 9th, 2010 at 7:41 am
Zoomshorts And Admin why not change evrey 5 sec. the end port like
xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:6000
xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx.6123
And then the end port from the server program
If a users now loin to a room the server program have to look now also for a free end port.
So if the camfrog is make the end port random then ther can attack but then it is like a synflood.
But if there attack the end port from the server there is noting to do.
Then the server is goin down 100%
I hope you know what i mean Zoomshorts and also the Admin.
And what i say it will not stop 100% the attacks but if the camfrog is not try anyting there can try this.
In 5.5 we change now all the time the end port by hand.
But we cant stay 24 hour in the server to look if there attack the server or a room.
June 9th, 2010 at 7:52 am
Zipcode,
Camfrog Server Advanced for Windows/Linux has been able to change ports on runtime 2/10. http://download.camfrog.com/changecfsl.phtml
“Easily switch server ports on runtime. Choose another port in the server options and the server will rebind without affecting users in your rooms.”
Changing ports every 5 seconds would cause clients to have problems, but we are working on something else that should solve the problem hopefully.
June 9th, 2010 at 11:33 am
Well i must say ZoomShorts I have spent a lot of money on trying to figure out how to stop DDOS Attacks from affecting my network and you have just come up with the solution in one post. Of Corse you could install a High end Firewall to filter attacks?
But i don’t think you understand the dynamics of a server based attack.
When a server is being attacked the firewall will block the attack from accessing the server BUT the problem is the attack is still using Bandwidth and Connectivity which is what causes slow or no connectivity for users. This in fact is the biggest issue people face and as such unless you have a 10GB DEDICATED CONNECTION to your servers and one room on each server there is no way in hell of bypassing these types of attacks.
The best you can do is filter by firewall Companies like Microsoft, Apple, Google, Yahoo ect.. have FIELDS of servers setup to filter attacks.
But I am sure you are right, my company and many others like us are just silly and should have thought of blocking connections in the first place.
I will go and sit in the corner now and think about I have failed in life and in my work.
June 9th, 2010 at 11:38 am
we have Norton antibot xP
June 9th, 2010 at 12:12 pm
CasperPL Says:
June 9th, 2010 at 11:38 am
we have Norton antibot xP
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Yes sure CaperPL
But read what Anthony say please and finish your dream.
Thanks
June 10th, 2010 at 12:20 am
Hello,
Admin why u banned again … better u CLOSE zone asia , indonesia goverment not give access for naked.
Admin :@ :@ :@ why u create zone adult 18+ if room have show , u banned again !!!!!
really this unfair competition ….
CLOSE ZONE ADULT ASIAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA !!!!! ….
June 10th, 2010 at 9:07 am
Zoomshorts, in these troubled economic times you should really learn to save your “2 cents” Your comments although entertaining are seldom worth it.
June 14th, 2010 at 8:44 am
__DustinBowls__ , I have been touching electronically, computer since I was 14 years of age. Exactly WHERE have you been for all these years?
Do you have any real credentials? The things I am hearing from your typed
words seem like a wannabe with no idea about the DARPANET or any real source. YOU are no longer allowed to read ANYTHING I post, to do so, would be a Copyright violation. You doofus! Hugs douchebag.
June 15th, 2010 at 1:09 pm
This bad competion , as an admin should be wise .. cf bad management
June 17th, 2010 at 1:14 am
@Aussie: I am really sorry about the banning over your room. There are many rumors spreading over our zone. Some said that the CORE problem is Under Age (-19 years of ages!); other believed that Pre-Recorded video is the core one. But, you must have been heard a NEW rumor saying that Camfrog WILL ban any room (in Asia Zone) using the word “INDONESIA” as the name of the room coz, according to the rumor, Camfrog & Indonesian Police Department made an ‘agreement’. Sounds ridiculous, right? lools. You have already changed your room name, however. Did you believe the NEW rumour, Aussie?
June 18th, 2010 at 8:59 am
Hi Admin
Can Camfrog not change something with the colours in the rooms.
Camfrog has now red green and blue.
Can the camfrog not get a colours more like gold the king of the room.
And that they can make only 1 King.
And is also responsible in that room if something happens in that room.
And that king his ID most also have the same email address what the room also have the room.
It’s just an idea.
Sometimes I get crazy all that what they make in a red rooms.
And who knows there can make a limit in the camfrog rooms to only five people what they can make red for 1 room.
Oke thanks for reading this.
June 19th, 2010 at 4:29 pm
Well i hope you have the legal documents to prove this Mr ZoomShorts as faking Copyright is against the law.
I would also like to see what happens when anyone reads your posts. I generaly fall asleep and then wake up, read them again, fall asleep, wake up, read them again and fall asleep, you get the drift.
Anyway I am sure you wil apriciate the fact that “Arpanet” has been obsolete since around 1970 lol
Though i am sure you know nothing about the way the backbone of the internet, or actualy how things work. I am sure i can be expecting a letter from your lawers very soon.
Ciao
June 21st, 2010 at 12:32 am
“Well i hope you have the legal documents to prove this Mr ZoomShorts as faking Copyright is against the law.”
What copyright do you refer to?
June 21st, 2010 at 12:33 am
I thought this was a Disccusion board, not a Bitching one??
If we all work together, we all can make Camfrog a better place for everyone and most of all safer, especially for the young ones, at the moment some adults are acting like this!!
Or am I wrong??
Pete