Deprecated Darkstar fourms

Now, starting out of the blue, yesterday morning, all my players, me included, are getting POL-0033 errors when trying to connect.

mXI launch the game and so logins in DS properly, but it looks like something is not going through somewhere. The setup has not been changed.

All DS servers including MySQL server is setup on a PC x.x.x.190 and all but me connects through a public IP (updated in the DB just in case).

I have restarted the PC, the router, nothing changes... Anyone has a clue ?

POL Error Code 0033- Connection refused by server. Some servers may be out of service or congested. Please check your connection environment if nothing improves even after trying again later.

Sounds like a port forwarding problem or a firewall blocking the server(s) from accepting the connections.

Tought to at first but there's no firewall on that PC (don't ask) and the port fowarding on the router have not changed.

Unless my ISP started to block those, but then I would not have issues when connecting from another PC on the LAN using the LAN ip...

I did a portscan of the PC and all ports are showing and opens...

EDIT: Tried 3 servers, 2 on my LAN (one localhost to the client) and 1 on a friend's PC and all returns POL-0033... I am using mXI. Anyone else ?

EDIT 2: After a full reboot of ALL computer related hardware in my house it now works. I am thankful for the helps and for the Gods of Computing for allowing me to play again