Tech Support:"Connection error: Could not translate address"

[Wids]

So now I can't play anymore because this error started popping up last night.  

• I didn't muck about with any system files over the past week, if not longer.

• Neverwinter Nights was running just fine until last night.

• Windows 10 is my OS, but I have the connection set to Metered and I never bother with manually updating Windows 10.  So no Windows updates mucking things around.

• I run Savage Frontier from a desktop shortcut.  I also run two other servers from desktop shortcuts.  All of them end with this error.

• I have two Neverwinter Nights installations: Neverwinter Nights Diamond on my C:\ Drive and regular Neverwinter Nights on an external G:\ Drive.  Neither of them can get past this error.

• I edited the nwnplayer.ini files, as another forum advised: I changed the Client Port setting on the C:\ Drive to 5121 and the Client Port setting on the G:\ Drive to 5123.  No improvement for either client.

• I fully reset my modem and my router three times.  "Fully reset" = unplugged everything from the device and waited at least five minutes.  The last modem+router reset was when I completely shut down my computer, went to bed, woke up eight hours later, turned the computer back on, restored power to the modem, reconnected the coaxial cable to the modem after I got a green light, restored power to the router and reconnected the ethernet cable between the modem and the router after the router gave me a steady orange Connection light.  No go.

• I've been running Kaspersky Internet Security for about 11 months now.  It's possible that the latest Kaspersky update may have broken something, but I've never had Kaspersky problems before (aside from Kaspersky trying to make me buy their Secured Connection every day).

• I run Iolo System Mechanic, and it has been known to delete the following entries from my Hosts file before:

# Start of NWN entries.
0.0.0.0 nwmaster.bioware.com
0.0.0.0 nwnauth.kr.infogrames.com
0.0.0.0 66.244.193.142
0.0.0.0 203.239.47.115
127.0.0.1 peerchat.gamespy.com
# End of NWN entries.

It has happened so frequently in the past that my C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc folder also has a .txt file — which I created and named "In Case Iolo [cuss word] With the Hosts File Again.txt" — with these entries in it, ready to Copy-Paste back into Hosts again. But those entries in Hosts haven't and hadn't been deleted, edited or otherwise touched at all, by System Mechanic or otherwise.

So what else could it be?  

[Wids]

...and just like that, the problem resolved itself somehow.

Weird. I'll probably never know what caused it.

[kalbaern]

Mar 1, 2018 2:20:47 GMT -5 Wids said:

...and just like that, the problem resolved itself somehow.

Weird. I'll probably never know what caused it.

I've had this issue before. It ended up being a googgle server somewhere that was down.

[Wids]

Oh, I wonder if that could be what it was. How did you find out about the Google server being down?

[justicedragon]

Most random connection issues can probably be attributed to a messy ISP server or google or amazon having server issues. NAT and port problems on your end could happen, but that would only occur if you reset your router or if it's about to die.

If it happens again or frequently, you might want to contact your ISP, they can probably give you a heads up if your router's lifespan is nearing its end.

[Wids]

Something to keep in mind. Danke.