This is Insane

[sebula]

I've never had more difficulty connecting to a supposedly working realm. I make an account, keep getting Unable to Connect. Following the FAQs, I try other passwords I sometimes use (though I knew what my actual one was..) and now I'm banned...

I make another account, but wait it's an IP ban.

I have literally never logged into this server and I have been banned. I'm sure it's some sort of overzealous DDoS system, but I doubt any reasonable person would think I was trying to DDoS by trying to log in 6-7 times.

[sebula]

Apparently it was a time out that's expired on my main account, but I'm still getting Unable to Connect. I know it's going to the right address since when I intentionally mistype my password, it says the credentials are incorrect. Not sure what's going on.

[AverageJoe]

What's the exact message you get, word for word, when you type in both an account name and password that you know are 100% correct? And what's the exact message you get, word for word, when you type in an account name you know is correct but intentionally use an incorrect password?

Reason I ask is because when I intentionally use an incorrect password, I don't get any type of message that informs me "my credentials are invalid." In fact, of all the error messages I've seen connecting to Nostalrius, there is no such message. When I use an incorrect password, I routinely get "Unable to connect."

It almost sounds like you're running a different client version, not 1.12.1.