[Opensim-dev] ipv6? (was: STUN for OpenSim?)

[Kyle Hamilton]

Speaking of... is there any IPv6 work going on at this point?

-Kyle H

On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 3:15 PM, Mojito Sorbet<mojitotech at gmail.com> wrote:
> If you are running OpenSim behind a NAT router, you are going to have to
> configure the routing in some way, regardless of whether STUN, or even
> TCP, is used.  That is because the connection is originating outside of
> the firewall, and the whole purpose of firewalls is to not let that
> happen, except in carefully prescribed circumstances.  Same thing
> applies to VOIP.
>
> The problem of people not being able to find your IP address has already
> been solved by services such as DynDNS.
>
> On Tue, 2009-07-14 at 07:57 +0200, Stefan Andersson wrote:
>> One of the main shortcomings of the linden-legacy model is that
>> OpenSim does not work well (as in simple and consistent)  from behind
>> NATs and several home routers.
>>
>>
>>
>> I was thinking, if something like STUN could help us overcome this?
>
>>
>
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