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

Tue Oct 13 20:39:38 UTC 2009

Have you tried using the actual ip address instead of the dns? Maybe
just maybe there is some reversal issues with the handshake. It seems
like its sending a request for a handshake but maybe sending the wrong
information about where to make the handshake. I had the same issue
when I had used 127.0.0.1 and tried to connect with a remote machine.
That's what makes me think maybe its a reversal issue. Not sure how
possible it is for 1 part of a program to have issues reversing a
domain but not the other but its worth a shot I think.

On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 4:12 PM, Kevin Buckley
<kevin at buckley70.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
> 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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