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Charles Krinke wrote:
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<div>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.<br>
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Is it possible this could explain why my regions are not crashing or
stopping to accept logins as much as other reporters?<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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