[Opensim-users] viewer hanging up at region handshake

[Fleep Tuque]

Hi Emperor,

The key thing to note is that Opensim resolves the DNS of your region
server locally, no matter what IP/hostname address is configured in your
regions.ini file.  The thread I linked goes into great detail about why
that is:
http://opensim-users.2152040.n2.nabble.com/NAT-amp-Corporate-Firewall-td6223654.html

In the case of my home network, I followed all of the troubleshooting
steps, too, did everything you have done, and it still just would not work
until I ponied up to pay my ISP for a static IP address that I could use
for both internal and external connections.  That resolved all my problems.

If you are 100% sure that the NAT loopback is working, 100% sure that
you've checked that UDP packets are getting through (with the
portforward.com tool), and 100% sure that your firewall and virus
protection software aren't blocking things, then that would be my
recommendation - get a static IP address from your ISP.

The networking piece is the single hardest part of setting up an Opensim
grid.  Once you solve this problem, everything else will seem like a
cakewalk in comparison.

Best of luck,

- Chris/Fleep


Chris M. Collins (SL/OS: Fleep Tuque)
Center for Simulations & Virtual Environments Research (UCSIM)
UCIT Instructional & Research Computing
University of Cincinnati
406A Zimmer Hall
315 College Drive
PO BOX 210088
Cincinnati, OH 45221-0088
chris.collins at uc.edu
(513) 556-3018

http://ucsim.uc.edu


On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 7:10 PM, Emperor Starfinder <
emperor at secondgalaxy.com> wrote:

> Thanks for the information.  ****
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> I’ve tried the following:****
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> **1.       **I ensured that NAT Loopback is set accordingly.****
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> **2.       **I’ve given the machine a static IP within my network.****
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> **3.       **I’ve experimented with changing the External IP Address from
> a numeric IP such as 192.168.1.xx to a domain name such as
> example.dyndns.org.****
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> **4.       **I’ve moved the machine’s static IP to the DMZ as I had seen
> suggested in a forum post (forget the forum.)****
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> **5.       **I’ve double checked to be sure the firewall isn’t blocking
> the ports ( I even tried this with firewall turned off).****
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> **6.       **I’ve successfully logged into the region via another pc on
> my network using multiple different viewers so it is clearly something not
> resolving the ip for viewers externally.****
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> These steps are all producing the same result.****
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> Is there a file that perhaps I can look at i.e. viewer log, etc that might
> shed light on this as well?****
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> Thanks.****
>
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