[Opensim-users] Opensim 0.6.6 release standalone hangs at 'Waiting for region handshake' (LoginPacketNeverReceived) on other intranet computers

Tue Oct 13 20:12:01 UTC 2009

I have considered getting the bleeding-edge version, lol.  But I wanted to
start with something stable (...).  Thanks for the suggestion though - but I
DID check my ports with a port scanner.  I'm pretty sure a blocked port
isn't the problem though.  It's weird that it works perfectly if opensim and
the viewer are on the same machine - after all, they STILL talk to each
other via the same network protocols - they just didn't go through a LAN
card and the lower layers is all.  And there's a LOT of interaction before
they get to the region handshake point - so network protocols in general
seem to be just fine.  I was wondering if there is anything tangibly
different about the 'loginpacket' like maybe it goes to an undocumented port
or something which isn't covered in the '.ini' files.  I also have a port
logger - and nothing looks untoward in that either - but it's kinda hard to
analyse unless you know the protocols!

I haven't yet tried just connecting my machines to each other with the
dumbest of routers, rather than going via the Belkin, to see if that makes a
difference.  Cheers, Kevin

-----Original Message-----
From: opensim-users-bounces at lists.berlios.de
[mailto:opensim-users-bounces at lists.berlios.de] On Behalf Of Paul Fishwick
Sent: 13 October 2009 20:57
To: opensim-users at lists.berlios.de
Subject: Re: [Opensim-users] Opensim 0.6.6 release standalone hangs at
'Waiting for region handshake' (LoginPacketNeverReceived) on other intranet
computers

I usually run the bleeding edge version in fresh directories (to keep a 
trail
of implementations). This is mainly because of fairly recent changes that
do well with 64-bit Ubuntu. Not sure if this will help, but I have found 
port
scanners to be useful during testing: 
http://www.t1shopper.com/tools/port-scanner/
However, if you cannot connect even behind your firewall....not sure...
-p

Kevin Buckley wrote:
> Yes.  And that works - because when my friend tried to login (from far
away
> - outside the router firewall) I could see that activity on the opensim
> window and it got to the region handshake point (actually opensim says
> logged-in).  That shouldn't affect this problem though I think - all the
> PC's I am using are behind the router (and being explicitly addressed
using
> internal addresses (192.168.10.x).  Do you have 0.6.6 running OK in
> standalone?  Thanks - Kevin
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: opensim-users-bounces at lists.berlios.de
> [mailto:opensim-users-bounces at lists.berlios.de] On Behalf Of Paul Fishwick
> Sent: 13 October 2009 19:53
> To: opensim-users at lists.berlios.de
> Subject: Re: [Opensim-users] Opensim 0.6.6 release standalone hangs at
> 'Waiting for region handshake' (LoginPacketNeverReceived) on other
intranet
> computers
>
>
> Have you logged into your Belkin router and set up your router to forward
> any traffic on the port you are using (9000 for instance) to the machine
> where opensim is running (behind your router) ?
> -p
>
> Kevin Buckley wrote:
>   
>> I'm trying to get a 'vanilla' instance of OS-0.6.6 running 
>> 'standalone' on my PC so that I can log-in to it from outside (I have 
>> a pseudo-Static Domain: i.e. a Dynamic Domain Name from the ISP and a 
>> service from 'deerfield.com' called 'DNS2Go' that tracks it - has 
>> worked just fine with various packages for years). Ultimately I would 
>> like to get opensim running as a standalone-hypergrid implementation - 
>> but just standalone seemed a good first step. I planned to test it: 
>> viewer on same PC as opensim, viewer on different PC but within the 
>> firewall and finally: remote access using my Static Domain.
>>
>> After a few false starts, I built the release on one of my PC's 
>> (Windows XP SP2) using Port 9100 (Port 9000 is used already by my 
>> streaming music system). It works just fine if I use either the 2L 
>> viewer (v1.23.4 - 123908) or Hippo viewer, running on the same machine 
>> as opensim.
>>
>> However, if I run the viewer on different machines within my firewall 
>> (I have 2 others: Windows XP, also SP2 plus a Vista laptop - both 
>> tower PC's are high performance Pentium-4's with high-end NVIDIA 
>> graphics cards btw) it finds my opensim OK (can see the modified 
>> welcome message during login) but hangs at 'Waiting for region 
>> handshake'. Then I get the 'may have network issues message' and stops.
>>
>> I also got a friend to try to login from far away (outside the 
>> firewall) with the same failure at 'Waiting for region handshake'. I 
>> am about 50h into this now and have run out of ideas (and hair). I 
>> have seen in various forums that a number of people have (are) also 
>> experienced this problem - but so far I have never seen a posted
solution.
>>
>> So far I have done the following things (and they have made no 
>> difference - behaviour is exactly the same):
>>
>> - Tried different Ports: 9100, 9200, 9217 and even 9000 by shutting 
>> down my music server (changing the port addresses in 'Regions.ini' and 
>> 'opensim.ini')
>>
>> - Tried 'runprebuild' ('compile' runs with no errors) and 
>> 'runprebuild2008' (path error for .NETFramework - I have v3.5 btw)
>>
>> - Tried '0.0.0.0', '127.0.0.1', '192.168.10.100' (the server PC 
>> internal address) as 'InternalAddress' inside 'Regions.ini'
>>
>> - Tried 'SYSTEMIP' and '192.168.10.100' as 'ExternalHostName' inside 
>> 'Regions.ini'
>>
>> - Tried '127.0.0.1', '192.168.10.100' and even my external domain name 
>> in the various places in 'opensim.ini'
>>
>> - Tried running the '/bin' application on a different PC on the 
>> intranet (so then the viewers work OK on that PC but not now on the 
>> original server PC)
>>
>> - Tried 'AllowAlternatePorts' as both True and False
>>
>> - I have inserted the 'AV rezzes as cloud' patch and rebuilt (that 
>> fixed THAT issue!)
>>
>> - I have totally rebuilt from scratch many times
>>
>> - I have rebooted all the PC's at various times
>>
>> - Tried router firewall off and on (not that it should matter - router 
>> is Belkin F5D8635-4v1 btw)
>>
>> - Tried Windows firewalls off and on
>>
>> - Searched high and low on the internet (generally and within the 
>> opensim forums)
>>
>> All to no avail.
>>
>> All I have changed in 'opensim.ini' (and 'Regions.ini') are the Port 
>> and Internet related addresses. The only other thing I changed was 
>> somewhere I had to uncomment a line to say which version of cache to 
>> use. Everything is 'out of the box' (I did, of course, copy the 
>> '.ini.examples' and convert them to '.ini's as appropriate).
>>
>> Has anyone had this issue and actually fixed it? How?
>>
>> Any help really appreciated. I'm a professional programmer by the way 
>> - but I wasn't intending to have to start diving into the opensim 
>> source to fix this!
>>
>> Kevin
>>
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