[Opensim-dev] Fwd: Canonical name versus www names in Opensim (Ferd Frederix)

Blake techplex.engineer at gmail.com
Mon Jul 24 20:05:06 UTC 2017


Ferd do you have the option of creating a URL Redirect record?

In my domains I can create a URL Redirect record that would solve your
problem I do believe.

Blake

On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 3:44 PM, Ai Austin <ai.ai.austin at gmail.com> wrote:

> At 17:51 24/07/2017, Fred Beckhusen <fred at mitsi.com> wrote:
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>> How does one solve the problem of Opensim answering to only one toplevel
>> domain? Opensim supports only one Public DNS name, yet a server can be
>> both TLD.com and a www.TLD.com. Or more.
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>> For example, my problem seems to be that my system responds to both
>> www.Outworldz.com:9000 and Outworldz.com:9000.   There are two A records
>> at Dyn DNS, both pointing to the same server.    In the web site, the
>> web server can be told to redirect traffic to Outworldz.com with a 301
>> to www.Outworldz.com. But this is not possible with Opensim.
>>
>> So what happens in Opensim on one of them is a failure to verify.
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>> 06:14:46 - [GATEKEEPER SERVICE]: Verifying http://outworldz.com:9000
>> against http://www.outworldz.com:9000
>> 06:14:46 - [GATEKEEPER SERVICE]: Unable to verify identity of agent XX
>> YY. Refusing service.
>>
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> Would it be useful to at least try the www. and non www. variants when the
> one given fails, before giving up?
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> I assume trailing "/" is already stripped of before the string
> comparison?  If not, that's definitely needed.
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> And it seems that a HG lookup that subsequently fails to complete the
> teleport is still cached.... that was the issue I had in testing with Fred
> in the last few days,.  I had to do a 'show hyperlinks' and 'unlink-region
> <region-domain:port/>' to  allow subsequent teleports to work.  This means
> its only open to someone with a region server and console access. A normal
> user could not have fixed this. If possible that failed teleport should
> lead to the cache entry not being made.. or deleted from the cache if it
> was already in place?
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