[Opensim-dev] external host name

[Sean Dague]

Cristina Videira Lopes wrote:
> Charles Krinke wrote:
>> On this subject, some of us run dotted decimal for our external host
>> names. In fact, all of my servers use dotted decimal, *and* I tend to
>> use the dotted decimal for the grid server processes instead of
>> osgrid.org.
>>
>> Is it possible this could explain why my regions are not crashing or
>> stopping to accept logins as much as other reporters?
> There's likely a correlation, because it's clear that the viewer pays
> attention to those details, at least for caps, and it is not very smart
> in processing them. When the external host name is given in dotted
> decimal notation, the OpenSim inconsistencies don't matter. They show up
> when it is given as a domain name, because half of OpenSim converts it,
> and the other half doesn't.
> 
> This is not to say that people should now switch to dotted decimals. We
> need to fix these problems in OpenSim so that this won't matter. So
> please, whoever uses domain names, please continue to do so. Now that
> the problem has been identified, it will eventually go away.

I just want to say thanks, a bunch, for sifting through all this.
Reading this thread just made a lightbulb go off, and explains a lot of
what I've seen before.

I'm eagerly awaiting patches that stop the forced IP conversions.

	-Sean

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Sean Dague / Neas Bade
sdague at gmail.com
http://dague.net


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