[Opensim-users] External Access to standalone
InuYasha Meiji
inuyasha.meiji at gmail.com
Wed Apr 17 22:19:14 UTC 2013
Just tossing in my two cents. I personally use DynDNS and the Dyn
Updater to turn my dynamic IP into a more stable named ip. As long as
you don't go offline for an entire month it is free. If you pay a fee
it won't expire monthly. It works for me, but I have a D-Link DGL-4500
GamerLounge Xtreme N Gaming Router which includes loopback and 1
gigabyte LAN.
With this setup my wife on the same network can log on, I can log on and
any of my ten test users can as well including my friend from Australia,
who has no problem getting on from half way around the world.
I had to make a few changes to get it to work. On the home network I
had to preassign each computer its own local IP to make my local IPs
static. I then have my computer running my grid on a local of
192.168.0.198. Then in each ini file I changed the 127.0.0.1 to that ip
of 192.168.0.198. I will continue to region ips if you say you're
interested...
Trying to be helpfull,
InuYasha.
On 4/17/2013 11:27 AM, Tom Bess wrote:
> Hi Fleep, thank you for your advice. There does seem to be an issue
> with my router. I cannot get a static IP address from my ISP hence I
> used the dynamic IP. I will let you know how I get on. Thanks. Tom
>
> Tom Willans BSc(Hons) MBCS CITP
> PhD Student
> Serious Games Institute, Coventry University
> United Kingdom
>
> Managing Director Bessacarr Publications Ltd
> Senior Research Representative:Engineering and Computing
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>
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>
> On 17 Apr 2013, at 12:59, Fleep Tuque <fleep513 at gmail.com
> <mailto:fleep513 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>> Hi Tom,
>>
>> This is a fairly common question that can have a number of different
>> root causes.
>>
>> It might be helpful to go over the details of exactly what happens
>> when you try to log in. Based on my understanding and previous posts
>> from Justin, Diva and others, this is my understanding of how it
>> works: When you start up the client and enter your name/password, it
>> sends those details to the OpenSim login service. If your password is
>> correct, it tells the region simulator that you're coming. The login
>> service then sends back to your client the IP address and port to use
>> to enter that region based on the information in the regions.ini
>> configuration file. Your client then connects to the region using
>> those details.
>>
>> If you are stuck at "Connecting to Region.." or "Waiting for region
>> handshake..." then your client successfully connected to the Opensim
>> login service, but the information it is using to try to connect to
>> the region (IP address and port number) is not allowing the
>> connection. This can be any number of issues related to your
>> networking setup.
>>
>> 1) Check to make sure you have the correct ports open on your router
>> and firewall by reviewing the Opensim Network Settings page and
>> Firewall settings page. You can verify this by using 3rd party port
>> checker software, I've used this successfully:
>> http://portforward.com/help/portcheck.htm
>>
>> 2) If you are on a home network, make sure your router supports NAT
>> Loopback, per the instructions on the Opensim wiki:
>> http://opensimulator.org/wiki/NAT_Loopback_Routers
>>
>> 3) If you do not have a router that supports NAT Loopback, or are on
>> a corporate or campus network with 1-to-1 NATing, you will need to
>> have an external static IP address assigned to your server for users
>> outside your network to connect. See this thread for more
>> information:
>> http://opensim-users.2152040.n2.nabble.com/NAT-amp-Corporate-Firewall-td6223654.html
>>
>> I run FleepGrid from home and since my router didn't support NAT
>> Loopback, I got a static IP address from my ISP and that resolved all
>> my issues with people not being able to connect from outside my home
>> network.
>>
>> Hope this info is helpful. Good luck and let us know how it goes!
>>
>> - 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 <mailto:chris.collins at uc.edu>
>> (513) 556-3018
>>
>> http://ucsim.uc.edu
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 12:44 AM, Tom <tom.willans at bessacarr.com
>> <mailto:tom.willans at bessacarr.com>> wrote:
>>
>> I am trying to gain external access to my OS standalone server
>> "Diva". On the internal network all is fine even using my
>> external url (via dynamic dns). The External login gets as far
>> as [SCENE]: Region Central authenticated and authorized incoming
>> root agent XXXXX (circuit code 230241706) (using the rest
>> console). Firestorm then fails giving the message "Waiting for
>> region handshake" after a number of attempts.
>>
>> The IP address is redirected using dynamic dns, the host machine
>> has a reserved IP address. Port forwarding for both TCP and UDP
>> are set to 9000..9004 to this machine is set up. I have the same
>> problem with an without the firewall on (but forwarding set).
>>
>> I am able to access the diva Wifi, webpage and use the rest
>> console for this machine. ssh works fine.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> p.s. apologies for having sent request on another posting
>>
>>
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