[Opensim-users] Diva Distro - Hitting Walls

Wed Dec 1 16:03:25 UTC 2010

I was hopeful - but no.  Antivirus IS off on the server.

On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 9:41 AM, Fleep Tuque <fleep513 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Is there any anti-virus software installed on the machine?  I had a similar
> nightmare install and kept checking and re-checking my network settings and
> in the end it turned out the virus protection "active scanning" stuff was
> causing the problem.  (In my case it was Avast).  Turned that off then
> suddenly everything worked like magic.
>
> Good luck!
>
> - Fleep
>
>
> Chris M. Collins (SL: Fleep Tuque)
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>
> On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 10:21 AM, iSkye Silverweb <
> iskye.silverweb at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> He has a Windows XP machine that is running the Diva distro. Here's our
>> current setup:
>>
>> We have a standalone Diva distro 0.7.0 on a Windows XP computer in the UK,
>> with two other computers inside that network; two external computers outside
>> the UK.  Broadband provider is Sky.
>>
>> On router (Sagem F at ST 2504 firmware version 2.8Sky):
>> Port 9000 for TCP/UDP and ports 9001-9003 for UDP
>>
>> Windows firewall disabled on both computers inside the network
>>
>> regions.ini file:
>> external IP is our-grid.dyndns-server.com  (note: when we change the
>> external IP to the actual internal IP, 192.168.0.9, for the machine running
>> our grid, our UK guy can log in from inside his network, but the 2 outside
>> computers can't get past handshake)
>> internal IP is 0.0.0.0
>>
>> hosts file on the client the UK guy is trying to login from:
>> 192.168.0.9    our-grid.dyndns-server.com
>>
>> uPnP and DMZ are both off, disabled (we've tried both ways)
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 10:14 AM, Jeroen van Veen <j.veenvan at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Did you check the iptables(if on linux) script? I used it succesfully to
>>> have
>>> both internal and external access to the sims.
>>>
>>> kind regards,
>>>
>>> Jeroen
>>>
>>> On Wednesday 01 December 2010 14:45:52 iSkye Silverweb wrote:
>>> > I'm sorry if we are testing some people's patience on this.  All the
>>> help
>>> > thus far is much appreciated.  We have a lot to do, just as we're sure
>>> > everyone here on this list is also very busy.  We would REALLY like to
>>> get
>>> > this solved.
>>> >
>>> > Initially, we followed the steps of installing the Diva distribution,
>>> and
>>> > the result was that our UK guy could log in from the LAN, but the two
>>> > external users could not get past the handshake.  Then, the going round
>>> in
>>> > circles started.
>>> >
>>> > Let me give a recap of all we've checked, just so we're clear:
>>> >
>>> > Yes, we did look at the various websites like the one at the link you
>>> gave,
>>> > Diva, when installing the distro, and we followed the instructions, and
>>> we
>>> > have since checked and rechecked several times as the only help we seem
>>> to
>>> > be getting is links to the ports issue.
>>> >
>>> > YES, port 9000 is open on the server machine for TCP and UDP
>>> > YES, ports 9001 to 9003 are open for UDP
>>> > We have used a port checker which confirmed this, and
>>> > YES, they are open on the firewall and directed to the server machine.
>>> > We have checked with port checkers both from inside and outside the
>>> > network.
>>> >
>>> > YES, all address references in the myworld.ini and regions files point
>>> to
>>> > the DYNDNS address
>>> > YES, we have changed all the inside-LAN clients' hostfiles to point to
>>> the
>>> > DYNDNS address to the server
>>> >
>>> > We even bought a new router, since we learned the previous one was an
>>> older
>>> > model that did not support NAT loopback, after attempting multiple
>>> > (fruitless) firmware updates.  The new router is a Sagem F at ST 2504
>>> with
>>> > firmware version 2.8Sky (our broadband provider is Sky), which
>>> supposedly
>>> > does support NAT loopback.
>>> >
>>> > As a result:
>>> > EXTERNAL users can now get in, past the handshake and inworld, but
>>> > INTERNAL users fail at handshake.
>>> >
>>> > As we have said, the only way we we seem to get internal users in is by
>>> > adding an entry in the hosts file of the SERVER machine, which then
>>> > prevents people from outside getting in until that entry is removed
>>> from
>>> > the hosts file on the server machine.  This is kludgy and not a good
>>> > permanent solution, but it enables us to work together.
>>> >
>>> > I hope this has made our problem more clear and that there is a
>>> solution
>>> > other than to keep checking the same information we have already looked
>>> at
>>> > and tried.  All your help is very much appreciated, and we've learned
>>> an
>>> > enormous amount thus far, but we are still stymied by this last bit.
>>> >
>>> > On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 9:37 PM, Diva Canto <diva at metaverseink.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> > >  These issues are explained in several places, here's one:
>>> > > https://github.com/diva/d2/wiki/DNS
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