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

Thu Oct 22 03:00:40 UTC 2015

Don’t change the Ethernet one, keep it set with the static IP or router won’t know where to go for outside connection to the server. So an outside connection would go cloud -> Your router -> server machine (Ethernet card) -> server. 

From: opensim-users-bounces at opensimulator.org [mailto:opensim-users-bounces at opensimulator.org] On Behalf Of Isis Ophelia
Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2015 7:09 PM
To: opensim-users at opensimulator.org
Subject: Re: [Opensim-users] Opensim-users Digest, Vol 19, Issue 7

Thanks so much Fred, your explanation was exactly what I needed to configure the Windows Loopback Adapter. I will remove the line in the Hosts file and configure the Adapter and see if that helps me. 

A question. Do I need to do anything to the Etherneth connection? I mean right now I had configured it so that this PC got a static internal IP 192.168.2.10. Do I leave it alone and do nothing to it and just configure the windows loopback adapter?

On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 10:42 PM, Fred Beckhusen <fred at mitsi.com <mailto:fred at mitsi.com> > wrote:

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 <mailto:opensim-users-request at opensimulator.org>  wrote:

Today's Topics:

    1. Re: HG - Not able to teleport back home (Isis Ophelia)

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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 <mailto:garmin.kawaguichi at magalaxie.com> > wrote:

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