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

[Stefan Andersson]

All,
 
If you have your region behind a NAT router that does not support NAT loopback, you will not be able to teleport into it from the outside if the grid server that negotiates the teleport is outside of it.
Currently, there is simply no way. Not on Windows, and not on Unix. Not with host spoofing and not with dyndns.
 
It's like that, unfortunately.
 
The best solution is either to
a) get a NAT loopback capable router
or
b) subscribe to region hosting
Best regards,Stefan AnderssonTribal Media AB Join the 3d web revolution : http://tribalnet.se/ 



> Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 12:15:06 +0200> From: mana.janus at web.de> To: olish at newworldgrid.com> CC: opensim-users at lists.berlios.de> Subject: Re: [Opensim-users] Getting rid of NAT Loopback uncapable routers...> > 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.> > Mana> > _______________________________________________> Opensim-users mailing list> Opensim-users at lists.berlios.de> https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opensim-users
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