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

[Miss Suzhanna Rossini]

> 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.
> >
> Hmm, just a stupid question... in your OpenSim configuration files, do
> you use "mypublicdomainname.tld" as the host name for grid servers and
> the external ip for your regions?
> If you enter your external IP there as a 1.2.3.4 number, the trick with
> hosts can't work.


I use name based URIs all over, no direct IP numbers anywhere, and it seems
to work fine for me, although the wiki mentions that it should not.. ;-)