Shattered Kingdoms

I could leave it at the login for however long I wanted. The server only closed the connection when I typed in the character name and pressed enter.

My problem is solved. Screw cliser. I sucked it up and paid five bucks for an HTTP tunneling service, it works like a charm,

The carriage returns makes more sense, but my reasoning behind the encryption was that something faulty was going on. I'm not terribly familiar with the service you described, but I tend not to trust anything. So, when you said encryption, I wasn't sure if the telnet password (which should be encrypted... I'm second guessing myself) was causing issues in the encryption algorithm...

Either way, glad you fixed your problem...

sleeper

For the record, I got CLISER working to satisfy my own technical curiousity - very nifty and very seamless as far as zMUD is concerned (i.e. zmud doesn't know it's going via a proxy). Make sure when you fill in the registration you're actually at the site you need to proxy from, since Mosha records your IP address and links it to the ID you use later on.

Instructions:
1. Register with Mosha (takes about a day to process and get the reply email)
2. Download the tiny program (for Windows, grab the program and the INI file and put them in a folder somewhere)
3. Edit the INI file and fill in your "id" value from registration, and change the settings to connect to SK: remoteport=1996 and localport=1996
4. Open a command prompt and start cliser by typing something like cliser myproxy 4096 mud.shatteredkingdoms.org (you'll need to substitute your local values for the first two fields, being your local proxy's name and port)
5. Open up your MUD client and change the MUD hostname field from mud.shatteredkingdoms.org to localhost then save the changes
6. Connect and play!

Please ensure with your relevant network people that you have the authority to use this software - we're not responsible for and do not encourage the violation of network security policies.

PS: A word of warning: the cliser applet doesn't block on input, so it sits in a hard loop polling for data in either direction - on my Vista laptop it happily took 50% CPU (ie, 100% of one core).

On an unrelated note, try 1664 Blanc while you're there if you haven't already. Best. Beer. Ever.

There's nothing wrong with playing SK while abroad! >.<

You can only go out and enjoy the country for so long before you want some alone time with your computer in your bedroom that doesn't involve looking at porno sites.