[2023] Unable to play due to Authentication Error

Help!

Hi, I am attempting to play again after years away. I got my steam account and Frontier Account figured out but when I boot the game it runs thru beginning animations, it does some shader caching, then pre warms the worlds and does GPU check.

Then it attempts to reach the servers I guess and immediately fails, stating unable to reach authentication server try again later.

I know other people have had this issue, but I have yet to see any fixes. I have tried disabling my firewall, and checked to make sure it had the proper allowances for Elite Dangerous.

I have placed a ticket thru Frontier Support, just looking to see if anyone has any ideas.