[Opensim-users] Opensim-users Digest, Vol 19, Issue 7

[Fred Beckhusen]

I would not use the Hosts file 'trick' on a server that also has the 
viewer.  The fact that you need to edit hosts file indicates that the 
router cannot loopback.    I use the Microsoft Loopback Adapter.

What happens is that the server broadcasts your public DNS name to 
clients not as a name, but as an address.    The server first does a DNS 
lookup and via hosts, finds the 127.0.0.1 loopback.   It will broadcast 
this 127.0.0.1 address  to a remote WAN client, and they cannot 
connect.    Yet it works for you.    But without loopback, you cannot 
connect.

On Windows, you can add a software loopback adapter for the Public Port 
to loopback the public IP to the server, which allows the server to send 
the public IP to clients.

Installation instructions: 
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc708322(v=ws.10).aspx

Once it is installed you have  to set it up.  It will be in the Control 
Panel->Network Connections, as "NAT Loopback".  Its just like an 
Ethernet driver.   Open it, and find Internet Protocol Version 4 
(TCP/IPv4) and change its properties.  I click "Use the following IP 
address" and enter my PUBLIC IP in the IP Address box.   No Gateway is 
needed.  Under DNS, I used my routers IP address so it can do the DNS 
lookups.    Or you can use Googles super DNS of 8.8.8.8. and 8.8.4.4

Once enabled, this will make any reference to the Public IP address 
route right back to the system itself,  just as the router should do.    
And WAN users get the correct Public IP sent to them, instead of 127.0.0.1


Ferd Frederix
http://www.outworldz.com


On 2015-10-21 11:31 AM, opensim-users-request at opensimulator.org wrote:
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>     1. Re: HG - Not able to teleport back home (Isis Ophelia)
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> Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2015 17:54:13 +0200
> From: Isis Ophelia <isisophelia at gmail.com>
> To: opensim-users at opensimulator.org
> Subject: Re: [Opensim-users] HG - Not able to teleport back home
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> Thank you Garmin. I have configured my internet connection to be a static
> internal IP which is 192.168.2.10. Following your suggestion I replaced the
> 0.0.0.0 with that IP.
> Result is: The console shows:
> 17:48:30 - [SCENE]: Region Arcana Welcome authenticated and authorized
> incoming
> root agent Isis Ophelia 1b77be9b-248e-400b-a4ca-499d0aa06d77 (circuit code
> 40308
> 2697)
>
> And the viewer tells me: We are having problems connecting. There might be
> a problem with your internet connection or the Arcana World Grid.
> So pity this does not help :(
> Thank so much though :)
>
> On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 4:24 PM, GarminKawaguichi <
> garmin.kawaguichi at magalaxie.com> wrote:
>