[Opensim-users] Diva Distro - Hitting Walls

[Diva Canto]

These issues are explained in several places, here's one:
https://github.com/diva/d2/wiki/DNS

On 11/30/2010 7:04 PM, iSkye Silverweb wrote:
> Here's an update:
> We found a bit of a workaround, but it's not ideal.  It's a way to get 
> us all in at once so we can work together until we get a permanent fix.
>
> Here's what we do:
> 1. on server hosts file he added the server local address with the FQDN
> 2. logging in, then removing the entry in server hosts file again so 
> the external computers can get in
> 3. and this is when the internal client is on another pc (not on the 
> same computer that is running opensim)
>
> If he tries just changing the hosts file on the internal client it 
> doesn't make any difference, he can't get in unless he puts an entry 
> into the hosts file on the server.  So it's a routing/addressing 
> problem somewhere.
>
> Ideally we think diva needs to have a a way to differentiate between 
> LAN and WAN users, and have two different addresses for people - 
> inside and outside the network.  Maybe we're missing something...
>
> On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 2:13 PM, iSkye Silverweb 
> <iskye.silverweb at gmail.com <mailto:iskye.silverweb at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>             Really appreciative of everyone trying to help - John, we
>             followed your suggestion, and we also followed Diva's:
>
>             He tried without an entry in the hosts file:
>             Using the FQDN for -loginuri and the client can't even
>             find the server.
>
>
>         He needs to add that entry in the hosts file, obviously,
>         otherwise the name likely won't be resolved.
>
>     then he would be using -loginuri
>     http://our-grid.dyndns-server.com:9000  and including an entry in
>     the hosts file that says:
>
>
>
>
>             If he uses the local IP address (192.168.0.9) for
>             -loginuri (again, without an entry in the hosts file),
>             then it does find the server, but he hangs at the handshake.
>
>
>         That won't work. He needs to use the FQDN.
>
>
>     OK.  Now we're doing a review session on FQDN.  He used the
>     http://our-grid.dyndns-server.com address as FQDN, which he
>     acquired for the public IP address of his router.  He's asking me
>     to verify here that he did it correctly.
>
>
>
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