Gehn Shard connection timeout

[Yali]

Created a new avvie in preparation for introducing some new fans to Uru and Gehn but every time I pass the character screen to "Explore Uru" I get: "Network error 5. Network connection failed. protocol: game server". Gehn Shard has been acting up lately, often hanging during links. I've been wanting to get new players to try it since it's IMO the best iteration of Uru, but within the last few months it's been oddly buggy and now I can't even get in the game. :/

Edit: Seems to be an issue during linking. Whenever I link I get disconnected. I'm not having this issue with MOULa though so I'm not certain it's on my end entirely.

[Tsar Hoikas]

There has been a bug recently that has caused the server to reject certain links for some reason. I cannot reproduce this issue locally, but restarting the server seems to fix it. I restarted the server just now, so maybe that fixed the issue.