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

[Miss Suzhanna Rossini]

> Miss Suzhanna Rossini a écrit :
> >> 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.
> 
> Thanks Miss Suzhanna, thanks Paul for your answers !
> 
> Indeed I do use the hosts file but without success (on Vista). When I
> try in my web browser to visit
> http://mypublicdomainname.tld:9000 I get the OOpss page from opensim.
> But nothing when I try
> to TP... anyway other people outside my LAN can :s I have to try on XP.
> 
> Thanks again !


That's strange...
I run my workstation on Vista Business x64, and it goes perfectly fine. Or
rather, it WAS running fine.. ;-) A friend of mine helped me set up an old
computer as a router/firewall, using IP-Cop software, and apparently that
handles the "route-back" issues just fine. I have removed everything from my
local hosts file, and it works just fine anyway now.

/Suz