KGS Server Status

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Warning: Just because you are unable to connect to KGS, does not mean KGS is down. The problem might be on your end, at your provider, or somewhere in between. When reporting on this page, please use "<time> - Can't connect from <location>", rather than "KGS is down". If and when other people confirm this, the status can be updated. Please check [ext] http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/ for correct GMT.


2013-07-16

9:10 GMT - Major server crash, everybody in all rooms got disconnected 15+ times in a row before the server got totally unaccessible (Edit: 9:35 server is back).

2013-05-17

07:00 GMT - Can't connect from Romania. 07:15 GMT - Could connect again to website and game server (which states that it is up for almost 60 days.

2013-02-05

13:59 GMT - Can't connect from York, UK. Machine cannot be found

2012-12-06

16:25 GMT - Can't connect from Malta. "ClassNotfoundexception"

2012-12-07

11:23 GMT Still Cant connect from Singapore only on my PC what could be the reason??.

16:40 GMT Still Cant connect from Singapore only on my PC what could be the reason??.

2012-12-06

16:50 GMT Cant connect from Singapore only on my PC what could be the reason.

2012-9-26

20:30 GMT disconnected from Hungary for like 5 minutes. What's annoying is that my playing time kept on dwindling meanwhile. Interestingly, this very page was also unavailable (timeout).

21:00 GMT disconnected again just after my game ended (feeling lucky this time). Again, I was able to connect after a few minutes.

2012-9-12

12:56 GMT Cannot connect from Spain with Chrome, ClassNotFoundException 13:05 GMT connection possible again

2012-8-30

22:18 GMT Disconnected from Hungary. Couldn't reconnect for like 10 minutes. Then it was ok again.

2012-8-17

20:11 GMT Cannot connect from Pennsylvania, USA

2012-07-01

00:14 GMT Cannot connect from planet earth

2012-06-28

01:07 GMT Cannot connect from USA

The java applet won't load in Safari or Firefox on OS X Lion

2012-06-27

do the recent postings below indicate we have to doubt integrity/reliability of java/jar files and programs of KGS? best play thru website (http in stead of java/jar)?

2012-06-19

apparently these lines belong here:

any explain from KGS admin ? 11:03 GMT Cannot connect from CAN. 11:03 GMT Cannot connect from USA 11:02 GMT Cannot connect from UK 11:01 GMT Cannot connect from Indonesia.. what is happened to KGS ??

but: did you use an anonymizer proxy as e.g. tor? Could be the reason (opinion by non-admin RuediRf). Server-statistics: active since 3 days

2012-06-17

any explain from KGS admin ?

  • 11:03 GMT Cannot connect from CAN.
  • 11:03 GMT Cannot connect from USA
  • 11:02 GMT Cannot connect from UK
  • 11:01 GMT Cannot connect from Indonesia.. what is happened to KGS ??
  • 22:53 GMT Cannot connect from California, United States. Ping of goserver.gokgs.com is possible. Reaching the website is possible as well.
  • 21:55 GMT Game archive error 500.
  • 10:42 GMT server is reachable again
  • 10:27 GMT Cannot connect from Italy. Ping of goserver.gokgs.com is possible. Reaching the website is possible as well.

2012-06-16

  • 15:45 GMT Brief outage. Connecting again ok. Server stats show "Up For: 0:04:34" and less than 1000 users connected. Definitely a server outage.

2012-06-15

  • 10:30 GMT Cannot connect to KGS from Poland
  • 03:46 GMT Cannot connect from USA. I'm getting a message "Unable to launch the application." when i try to start cgoban3. I also cant access kgs from the website but i can ping gokgs.com just fine.
  • 02:30 GMT Everything working again! All my tests pass (telnet, CGoban, www, database). KGS is back online.
  • 02:10 GMT CGoban and telnet still failing. www.gokgs.com works but games database (e.g. [ext] Tournament List) fails with error 500.
  • 01:35 GMT www.gokgs.com website working from Canada. CGoban3 has error: server refusing connections. Telnet to goserver.gokgs.com:2379 fails (connection refused).
  • 01:20 GMT goserver... no connection; www...: error 500; ping is still possible. (yesterday there was a games database error for april 2004) (oh, forgotten: is Germany here)
  • 01:05 GMT Unable to connect from USA for last 30+ min. I can however connect with telnet to goserver.gokgs.com 2379.
  • 01:04 GMT Server definitely down
  • 00:48 GMT Cannot connect from Canada.
  • 00:13 GMT Cannot connect from USA. Same from France

2012-06-10

  • 12:21 GMT Cannot connect from USA (San Jose). Cannot ping from UK either.
  • I'm online right now, so it's just you ;(

2012-06-08

  • 16:07 GMT Connected from Germany
  • around 16 GMT Connected from USA.
  • 15:48 GMT Cannot connect from China
  • 15:47 GMT Cannot connect from Somalia
  • 15:12 GMT Cannot connect from France
  • 14:34 GMT USA. Cannot connect from the CGoban client. Also both the normal portal, [ext] http://www.gokgs.com/, and the secure portal, [ext] https://www.gokgs.com/, give the Apache Tomcat/6.0.24 error code 404: "The requested resource () is not available."
  • 14:22 GMT Cannot connect from USA. Pings fine to www.gokgs.com.
  • 14:01 GMT Cannot connect from Indonesia.. what is happened to KGS ??
  • 13:56 GMT Cannot connect from CAN.
  • 13:43 GMT Cannot connect from USA
  • 13:25 GMT Cannot connect from UK
  • 13:22 GMT Can’t connect from Germany
  • 12:34 GMT Cannot connect from UK. Impressed by people below posting from the future.
  • 14:10 GMT Cannot connect from Germany
  • 12:00 GMT Cannot connect from France

2012-04-05

  • 23:35 GMT Germany: Germany, connection is killed by exception right after login

2012-04-02

  • 16:00 GMT Sweden: can neither connect nor ping, neither the address nor the IP

2012-03-27

  • 11:40 GMT Germany: can't connect

2012-01-05

  • 18:20 GMT Germany: can't connect

2011-10-30

  • 09:00 GMT The server was restarted several times. Some DNS providers (for example Google DNS) have not updated their entried, this can be worked around by selecting Configure on the main screen and entering 69.167.162.200 into the Host field. Remember to set it back again to goserver.gokgs.com after a couple of days.

2011-10-29

  • 20:00 GMT The server was shut down and moved to a new location. Service was restored a few hours later. Some users might not be able to connect for up to 24 hours while DNS pools are being updated.

2011-10-27

  • 06:03 GMT Osaka Japan: cant connect

2011-10-20

  • 21:32 GMT Osaka Japan: cant connect

2011-10-15

  • 13:12 GMT Osaka Japan: cant connect
  • 15:15 Germany Can't connect

2011-08-17

  • 20:20 UTC Germany: cant connect

2011-08-01

  • 00:30 GMT Beijing, China: cannot connect

2011-07-09

  • 13:40 GMT Osaka, Japan: cannot connect

2011-07-04

  • 20:37 GMT Stuttgart, Germany: cannot connect

2011-06-07

  • 14:05 GMT Osaka Japan, cannot connect
  • Ditto from Oklahoma
  • 14:08 GMT Back up again (from Oklahoma)

2011-05-29

  • 23:10 GMT Germany, diconnected , cannot connect
  • 21:01 GMT USA
  • 21:01 GMT Germany - disconnected briefly
  • 21:05 GMT Back online

2011-05-25

  • 11:11 GMT Osaka Japan, can't connect

2011-05-21

  • 23:01 GMT Osaka Japan, can't connect
  • 19:01 EST Amherst, MA, USA, can't connect

2011-05-01

  • 07:00 GMT Osaka Japan, can't connect

2011-04-22

  • 18:22 GMT Rouen France, can't connect

2011-04-19

  • 11:03 GMT Osaka Japan, Can't connect
  • 11:06 GMT Utrecht Netherlands, Can't connect

2011-02-23

  • 20:13 PST California machine not working

2011-02-21

The server came back up at about 09:51 GMT - but some users find they cannot connect until they have downloaded the new client from [ext] https://www.gokgs.com/download.jsp

  • 20:21 GMT Dubai, cannot connect
  • 19:30 GMT California, USA, cannot connect.
  • 10:37 GMT Czech Republic, the server is up
  • 10:19 GMT France (Lannion), Server is back up !
  • 10:11 GMT Germany (Dortmund), the site is up but cannot connect to the server
  • 9:49 GMT Czech Republic(Brno), the site is up but cannot connect to the server
  • 9:42 GMT Sweden, cannot connect.
  • 9:27 GMT France (Lannion), cannot connect.
  • 9:05 GMT Paris France cannot connect.
  • 7:50 GMT Osaka Japan Can not connect.
  • 8:50 GMT Texas, Still can't connect. Guess maintenance is running late.
  • 8:48 GMT Massachusetts Cannot connect.
  • 8:49 GMT Canada, Quebec, Can Not Connect.

Note: As of 8:00AM GMT Server is down for scheduled maintenance. Estimated time for server to come back up is 30 minutes.

2011-02-18

  • 17:20 GMT Utrecht, Netherlands
  • 17.10 GMT Montreal, Canada
  • 14:38 GMT Osaka Japan
  • 14:37 GMT USA

2011-02.17

  • 09:10 GMT Can't connect from Germany - unstable connection, sometimes connects but disconnects again after a minute. Other programs work fine.

2011-2-02

  • 20:13 (GMT) - Can't connect from UK
  • 20:14 (GMT) - Can't connect from Sweden
  • 13:23 (PST) - connection back up

2011-1-20

  • 1:17(GMT-5) - Can't connect from Canada

2011-1-17

  • 22:03(SL time) - can't connect from UK
  • 21:03 GMT Connection ok from Switzerland
  • 20:59 GMT Server is OK
  • 20:57 GMT Can't connect from Germany
  • 20:56 GMT Can't connect from Italy (also website is down)
  • 20:55 GMT Can't connect from Switzerland
  • 17:40 GMT USA

2011-1-14

14:58 GMT Can't stay connected for long, from Portugal.

14:02 GMT Can't connect from Germany.

2011-1-12

18:40 GMT The server is online and working.

2011-1-11

I am unable to reach KGS from:

  • USA
  • CANADA
  • SPAIN

When I click the "ok" button to load the java applet, I get nothing. Is the server down?

You bet.

Same Here.

RabidWolve: The server has been back up for awhile now, with seemingly all bugs that were caused by the crash worked out.

2011-1-10

I am unable to reach KGS from:

  • USA
  • Canada
  • Germany
  • UK
  • Poland
  • France
  • Switzerland
  • Austria
  • Russia
  • Ukraine
  • Kazakhstan
  • Estonia
  • Brazil

Agzam?: The KGS server is back!

RabidWolve: Yes, KGS is now back up and running! Our computer had some issues and our ISP had to replace its RAM. It meant several hours of downtime. Sorry about the outage!

thank you :)

2010-12-31

Anonymous:I am unable to reach KGS from Thailand in Chiangrai

2010-12-19

at 05:20 GMT The server came back up about 1/2 hour ago.

at 04:46 GMT WMS has taken the server down for maintenance. It has been down for several minutes, but it should be up shortly.

at 4:46 GMT unable to reach KGS from Hanoi, Vietnam (in 18/12, the homepage is accessible. But now it's gone too)

at 4:22 GMT unable to reach KGS from Osaka, Japan

WMS has taken the server down for maintenance (database fix). It should be up shortly

2010-12-18

glue: The KGS server is back! Due to some problem at our ISP and to a power outage at wms place, the KGS server has been down for more than 12 hours on Dec 18th. We are very sorry for the trouble you have encountered.

2010-10-18

at 20:18 pst unable to reach from Canada B.C

at 20:35 GMT works again from Vienna, Austria

at 20:30 GMT unable to reach KGS from Vienna, Austria

At UTC(16:11), able to reach KGS from San Antonio, TX again.

I am unable to reach KGS from China.

I am unable to reach KGS from San Antonio, TX.

I am unable to reach KGS from Finland.

2010-10-01

I am unable to reach KGS São Paulo.

2010-07-28

I am unable to reach KGS from Toronto.

2010-03-01

I am running into frequent access problems (from China and sometimes from Hong Kong) using web client.

Message "Sandbag Unfriendly behaviour" issued

This means that you have been banned for breaching the [ext] Terms of Service.

2010-01-22

I am unable to reach KGS from Flensburg, GER

Machine "goserver.gokgs.com" could not be found.

Also the webpage is down for me.

-working now [10:11] GMT+1

2010-01-12

I am unable to reach KGS from Valrico, FL.

The system "goserver.gokgs.com" is refusing connections. The server is probably down right now. Please try again later.

Bazilikan: there is maintenance

2010-01-03

  • glue: KGS is down since 15H00 GMT, wms is working on it. Please be patient.
  • glue: 19H00 GMT update: the server is now back up.

2009-12-30

According to wms, KGS is currently down due to a [ext] "power problem" at the ISP. KGS will not be up until earliest tomorrow.

Its working again

  • Gyom: is it ? the webpage is there but I still can't log in (7.30PM GMT)
  • tapir: It isn't for me. It was back, but now it doesn't work (7.40PM GMT)
  • glue: KGS is back online and has been running for about 2 hours (time now 20H20 GMT). There were still some slowness issue, but it should go better now. Sorry all about that very long outage!
  • Gyom: looks like it's still going weird. I could log in tonight and even begin a game, but just like yesterday, I got some severe net-lag in the middle of the game, and was eventually kicked out of the server (after all my time elapsed, and the window had been sitting at 0:00 for several minutes). (~8.40 GMT)

2009-12-08

  • It's been down for a few hours now. (afternoon, Japan time)
    • glue: it's been up for more than 20 days...
      • Yes, sorry it was a false alarm. A problematic Debian update caused Java applications to be unable to reach the network. This fixes it btw: sudo sed -i 's/net.ipv6.bindv6only\ =\ 1/net.ipv6.bindv6only\ =\ 0/' \

/etc/sysctl.d/bindv6only.conf && sudo invoke-rc.d procps restart

  • I get an unusual Java error when the applet starts, saying (in the most relevant part): "load: class org/igoweb/kgs/client/swing/KApplet.class not found."

2009-12-02 23:15 US Central

  • TimH: Is it down?
    • glue: it's not down. It's up and running. You can still login from the regular client. But the website has some troubles, you can still access it through [ext] https://www.gokgs.com

2009-10-09

  • Tried from Wales today, and it's still down :(
    • glue: it's not down. It's up and running.

2009-10-07

TeeSushi It's down again.

2009-10-02

joweeba: It is down. I was on and got a broadcast message from Admin saying it would be down for a while for some upgrades.

2009-09-02 22:25 MEST

  • KGS down? Tried from Switzerland.

2009-08-28 10:14 UTC

  • Is the server down? I've been unable to connect from Beijing, China. The KGS website works and goserver.gokgs.com is responding to pings.
  • The server is down, it has been confirmed by a couple of more people at [ext] Godiscussions

here in Eastern Australia, KGS is still down

  • glue yes the server is down. It will be down for a couple of more hours. Wms is working on the problem. We are sorry for the trouble.
    • glue: After 6 hours of downtime, the server is now back up.

2009-08-24 19:20 UTC

  • Down (for Marathon) in SE Minnesota, USA. I've been unable to connect for 20 minutes. I'm getting a message that says server is refusing connections. [ext] http://www.gokgs.com web page also not accessable.
  • Up (for Marathon) at 19:26, just after I posted the above message. Server stats says it has been up for 39 days.

2009-05-12 10:05 UTC

  • Down (for Uberdude in England). Back up (10:20 UTC). Though according to server stats never went down, presumably some network failure.
  • Down for rydberg in Sweden (network unreachable)
  • Down for gedh in England
  • Down for darkluffy in France (the website is down too it seems)
  • Up!

2009-04-07 7:15 UTC

  • Server down?

2008-12-28 17:35 UTC

  • blubb: goserver.gokgs.com (74.52.20.154) appears to be down
blubb: False alarm, Level3.net is currently suffering poor connectivity. I can reach gokgs.com from another ISP.

2008-12-11 11:36 GMT

  • KGS Go Server is refusing connections.
    • glue: Server is ok right now, that error appears when the connection fails, check your firewall settings.

2008-07-12 3:20 GMT

  • D-did the server go down?

2008-03-31 21:20 GMT

  • Server gone, made me cry ...
  • Still down :(

yeh, i though it was my connection..

  • And its back on! :D

2008-03-28 19:40 UTC

  • Server down for roughly 2 min. Server forgot the last few moves of the game I played when it went south. HG

2008-02-24 1:34 PM PST

  • Server down?
    • ...and back on...

2008-02-14 5:12 GMT

Server is on.

2008-02-13 5:42pm EST

  • Server looks down.

gedh looks like it from here

2008-02-04 appr. 16:18 GMT

  • Server down?
  • blubb: Apparently, a brief interruption of service - I got disconnected too, but could re-login about three minutes later.

2007-08-19 app. 15:06 GMT

  • Played a blitz game. stones now showing after 3-5 secs. At around 15:06GMT (8:00AM PST) Server failed to respond. Could not login again. :( Was at GuoJuan's ING's class. After first stone placed during lesson everything went quiet.
  • Came back around 15:20 GMT. Massive lag. #1245 users on
  • 15:36 GMT. Died again (>.<)
  • Appears every 10-15 min. The system lags to death. :/

2007-08-12 appr. 14:00 UTC

  • After massive lag for a couple of hours, the server is wedged and is neither up nor down (still hasn't cut some people off), but effectively it is down since people can't log in. -- Hu.
  • 7:52AM PST No joy. same problem as early this week. KGS when gaga. :(
  • 105 minutes later (15:45 UTC), the server restarted, but it is experiencing massive lag and only a few people can log in (42 after 5 minutes). -- Hu.

2007-08-10 appr. 01:50 am UTC

KGS Server came alive. Wms posted on godiscussions.com:

"Sorry everybody!

The server got hung (not crashed, the server will recover from crashes on its own) when both Glue and I were unreachable. I was able to get on the internet for about 20 minutes, that was just enough time for me to see that KGS was down, and then to restart the server. Now I'm back at home, and I have fixed the problem that made it hang."

2007-08-07

  • 06:20 GMT xela: The login window shows the message of the day, but the main window won't appear; people are reporting problems [ext] over at godiscussions
  • blubb: 9 hours later, the server still refuses client connections - anyone knows what's happening over there?
  • bolbi: 15:25 GMT : Hello. The server is actually down. Please, be patient until we resolve the problem.
  • hotspur: 16:50 GMT : So is there any indication of when it is likely to be back up? Today? Tomorrow? A week? Or is the problem still an unknown quantity?

2007-07-29

  • 10:24 GMT RussellKhan: Just got dropped, can't log back on, server problems, or is it something on my end?

2007-05-17

  • 21:19 GMT Sampi: Is the server down?

2007-04-19

  • 18:10 GMT Beldur: Server goes up... Server goes down and so on.
  • glue: server is back.

2007-01-26

  • 2:15 PM EDT Blake: Welp, seems down.

2007-01-20

  • 11:24am CET PAG2: seems the server is down?
  • glue: server is up and running. It was not down.

2007-01-09

  • 16:34 CET piteraq: Is the server down? During the last couple of days, when trying to login, I got message: 'Connection to server terminated unexpectedly. You should log in again.'
  • glue: server is up and running. Danish users, if you see the message 'Forbindelsen til serveren er blevet afbrudt mod forventning. Du bør logge ind igen.', it's due to a translation error in the danish package. It will be fixed in the next release. In the meanwhile, you'll have to set your client preferences to english to be able to login. We are sorry about it.

2006-10-19

  • 8:55 PST is the server down?
  • wms: No, server has been up since Oct. 13 nonstop. Probably a network issue, these tend to be temporary, try again in a little bit.

2006-10-07

  • 12:58am China Standard Time Usagi: Server Crashed

2006-09-21

  • TimK: I'm having problems connecting to the server, and this has been going on for the last three days. At home I can connect to the web site, but it's extremely slow - the page load times out before the graphics load. From work I can't get the page at all. When I try to follow the jnlp link from either computer, it just times out. Is anyone else seeing this? Any ideas?

2006-09-18

  • It appears that KGS 2 is now down for good and the upgrade to KGS 3 has begun. In a few hours KGS 3 should be up.
  • lynx: What time did it go down?
  • KGS 3 is now up and running.

2006-09-14

  • 1:54 GMT dnerra: Is is just me, or are both KGS and KGS3 down?

2006-07-15

  • 16:22 GMT Brent: I get an EOFException when I try to connect. Is anyone else having the same problem or is it just me?
  • mykogo: I have the same thing
  • jfc: ditto, Jul 15 16:35:54 UTC 2006
  • 15:50 UTC to 16:45 UTC (= GMT) hgmichna: Me too. I still get a java.io.EOFException. Pings work, so something is running there, just not KGS.
  • blubb: About 1540 utc, I requested the server stats, because some chat of mine did`t show up. More than an entire hour has passed since then, and I am still waiting for either a disconnection message or the stats window to appear. The connection to sm28.igoweb.org remains "established", but nothing happens - very odd. 200607151651 utc
  • 16:50 UTC hgmichna: Server is now refusing connections, but still responding to pings. Something may be happening.
  • 16:58 UTC hgmichna: Server is back up.

2006-07-08

  • 20:40 GMT galatia: I cant connect... server problems?
  • robau: Same here, 22:44 CET
  • NeoNemesis: lol, and they're playing the NAMT league B finals too.
  • galatia: As server stats shows- the server was reset (crashed) and was down for approx 12 minutes. It is back up now.

2006-06-18

  • 23h46 (france hour) renju: cannot connect to server ! is it normal ? (i noticed it happens often when i lose on time !! i know its weird but that's really the case ! With time lose, it lag a lot before the game is marked a loss for me ! tonight the sever crashed at the very moment i lost on time !)
  • glue: server crashed, it is restarting... will be available in the upcoming minutes.

2006-06-03

  • 14.35 GMT Jon: 18 June 2240 BST I cannot cannot to the server
  • blubb: The game server doesn`t respond to any request from here (like showing text input, server stats, user info), but the connection is not officially closed either (pings are responded to).
  • DnF: The server is up again. (It seems since about 14:43 GMT).

2006-05-17

  • 10:35 PDT - Did KGS go splat?
  • glue: KGS crashed but it's back up

2006-04-20

  • 8:30 GMT - KGS has recovered fully from the disk crash on the web and email server. Email sent between April 16 and April 20 may have been lost, resend if you think that this happened. Everything should be back to normal, email admin@igoweb.org if it is not. Sorry for any problems that were caused.

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