vPilot won`t connect

[Stephan Ricci]

Hello

 

I cant connect to Vpilot anymore. I het the message:

Authentication failed: a task was aborted

When I did start vPilot, I made an update like normal. 

Last week wroks fine.

 

Thank your for your help.

 

 

Edited August 25, 2022 at 11:21 AM by Stephan Ricci

[Ross Carlson]

Usually that's caused by failure to connect to the VATSIM authentication server. Usually restarting your PC and/or your router fixes it.

[Stephan Ricci]

PC I did restart already, Router I have to try.

 

Edited August 26, 2022 at 05:20 AM by Stephan Ricci

[Stephan Ricci]

Hello Ross

I did rrestart my PC and as well my Router.

No way, I cannot connect Vpilot anymore, always get the same message. (Authentication failed: a task was aborted)

What can I do more please? Till now I never had this problem.

[Ross Carlson]

I would try disabling IPv6 on your PC.

[Stephan Ricci]

 

Hello Ross

Thank you very much for the professionell support.

I did deactivate IPv6 and now I can connect. But finally I would like to know why this happens, because so many years did work with IPv6 activated.

Just curios.

Edited August 29, 2022 at 06:03 PM by Stephan Ricci

[Ross Carlson]

All VATSIM client software is being moved to a new authentication system, and vPilot switched to it with version 3. The new system works over both IPv4 and IPv6, but some people have had problems where their computer tries to connect over IPv6 and it fails. I don't know what causes it, could be a misconfiguration with your router, or even your ISP. Disabling IPv6 on your computer works around the problem by preventing vPilot from trying to make the authentication connection over IPv6 in the first place.