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

[Miss Suzhanna Rossini]

> 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?

No, not that I am aware of anyway. It's read at every request as far as I
know. Maybe it's cached for speed, but I don't know for certain. But I seem
to remember that my edits were in effect instantly.