Today I had to uninstall to reinstall the game because at some point during my gameplay (usually within the first 10 to 20 minutes, I would get a white screen.
I am having this same issue since yesterday. Using PuTTy to telnet to 26000 works. That means its not an ISP issue. I tried from work in the morning. Got this error a couple of times after which the game connected. From home, not. I tried changing the port. Still no connection.
Connecting from Karachi, Pakistan.