I have a Windows 10 computer that's been my main Pchat computer since forever. I fired up Paragon Chat for the first time in many months, and had a really slow time connecting to my personal Openfire 4.2.3 server, to the point that PChat timed out. I tried connecting to chat.cohtitan.com and managed to connect. Likewise, the next few times I experimented, I had very slow connections but I managed to get connected. Some time later the same day, I tried connecting to both chat.cohtitan.com and to my personal server and I've failed every time to connect to either one.
The issue is limited to this particular computer. I've used a laptop and another desktop and they work as expected.
The symptom is that I'm able to launch Paragon Chat, choose a character, and enter the city. At the Atlas Park loading screen, however, the progress bar stalls out at around the halfway point. It inches forward for the next several seconds, and times out at around two-thirds of the progress bar.
I can see from the admin screen of my Openfire server (which is running on the same machine) that it never registers any users in the paragonchat or atlaspark chat rooms, so it looks like the connection is never succeeding.
Are there any flags I could set in Paragon Chat to print some debug traces to the debug window or to a log file?
The only think I can think of is something off the wall like a stray lmhosts entry that's messing up the dns. Any clues how to see what Paragon Chat is doing at the point where it's getting hung up?