[Opensim-dev] A software to connect its own region and TP in from locally...

[Olish Newman]

Stefan,

Thanks for the precisions.

I hope in the future everybody will be able to host their region without 
such complications.

Would be possible to do such a change in the OpenSim Grid server without 
too much impact on the rest of the code ?


Kind regards,

Olish Newman.



Stefan Andersson a écrit :
> Olish,
>  
> Sorry if I was being unclear - I'm not saying you can't let people 
> host at home - we do it, and there are several other grids that do it 
> too. I'm just saying that a percentage of people will have trouble 
> with their home routers (around 30% or so of home non-power users it 
> seems)
>
> Also, you can still have the region up for others to view (Since it's 
> visible from the outside) you just can't enter it yourself thru the 
> grid server. Although this is impractical, it's not a show-stopper so 
> to speak. Especially not if they can access the region directly in 
> some way, ie, not by logging in or teleporting into it via the grid, 
> but directly, like in sandbox mode.
>  
> We have solved this for the users that has this problem by letting 
> people build locally, in a disconnected 'sandbox', then upload their 
> region to our servers.
>  
> Of course, there could be protocol changes devised to let the grid 
> server return the local ip if the request comes from the external ip 
> (ie, keep track of all LANs)
>  
> Also, this is not an issue with standalone sims that have their own 
> login server and do not teleport. There has been some work done trying 
> to devise a non-grid network of standalone sims.
>  
> The Obvious JIRA would be to let the protocol send a full host name 
> and port (or IP and port as a string) instead of a IP address in the 
> form of a 32-bit int and a 16-bit int.
>  
> That would let you let your viewers on your LAN to resolve the host 
> name to a local IP, while letting external users resolve to the 
> external IP.
>  
> It's bloody amazing that they, in the year 2008, still seem to use IP 
> addresses in the form of an int.
>
> Best regards,
> Stefan Andersson
> Tribal Media AB
>  
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>  
>
>
>
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>
> > Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 12:02:41 +0200
> > From: olish at newworldgrid.com
> > To: opensim-dev at lists.berlios.de
> > Subject: Re: [Opensim-dev] A software to connect its own region and 
> TP in from locally...
> >
> > Hello Stefan,
> >
> > Thanks a lot for your help on this topic.
> >
> > I'm sad we cannot achieve this aim. It would have been wonderful for
> > people to host their regions at home.
> >
> > Can we eventually think about some viewer changes ?
> > Do you think we could file a JIRA at this subject and would Lindens 
> take
> > it in account ? :s
> >
> > Kind regards,
> >
> > Olish Newman.
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