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

[Paul Johnson]

On Sun, 2008-07-20 at 10:28 +0200, Olish Newman wrote:
> 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.

Don't you have to reboot to force Windows to reload the hosts file?

-- 
Paul Johnson
baloo at ursine.ca
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