[Opensim-users] Getting rid of NAT Loopback uncapable routers...

[Miss Suzhanna Rossini]

> On Thu, 2008-07-17 at 20:04 +0200, Olish Newman wrote:
> > Hello !
> >
> > I'm looking for a way to be able to TP inside locally hosted regions
> > (at
> > home) attached to an external grid.
> >
> > People having a router that is NOT Nat Loopback capable can't TP
> > inside their regions, but others can do.
> > There's a way for Linux using iptables. But Microsoft Windows
> terribly
> > lacks this functionnality.
> 
> If you're absolutely committed to forcing yourself to do this the hard
> way by using Windows, you might see if you can't override the DNS for
> the hostname of your sim on your router to give a local address for
> that DNS entry instead of the one visible to the rest of the world.


But that isn't very hard.. I just added my local IP addresses and host names
in \Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts and off I went. Of course, you cannot
do that on the server running the simulators, but only on your workstation
that you use to connect to your grid.