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<p class=MsoNormal>I’m trying to get a ‘vanilla’ instance of
OS-0.6.6 running ‘standalone’ on my PC so that I can log-in to it
from outside (I have a pseudo-Static Domain: i.e. a Dynamic Domain Name from
the ISP and a service from ‘deerfield.com’ called ‘DNS2Go’
that tracks it – has worked just fine with various packages for years).
Ultimately I would like to get opensim running as a standalone-hypergrid
implementation – but just standalone seemed a good first step. I
planned to test it: viewer on same PC as opensim, viewer on different PC but
within the firewall and finally: remote access using my Static Domain.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>After a few false starts, I built the release on one of my
PC’s (Windows XP SP2) using Port 9100 (Port 9000 is used already by my
streaming music system). It works just fine if I use either the 2L viewer
(v1.23.4 - 123908) or Hippo viewer, running on the same machine as opensim.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>However, if I run the viewer on different machines within my
firewall (I have 2 others: Windows XP, also SP2 plus a Vista laptop –
both tower PC’s are high performance Pentium-4’s with high-end
NVIDIA graphics cards btw) it finds my opensim OK (can see the modified welcome
message during login) but hangs at 'Waiting for region handshake'. Then I
get the ‘may have network issues message’ and stops.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>I also got a friend to try to login from far away (outside
the firewall) with the same failure at 'Waiting for region handshake'. I
am about 50h into this now and have run out of ideas (and hair). I have
seen in various forums that a number of people have (are) also experienced this
problem – but so far I have never seen a posted solution.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>So far I have done the following things (and they have made
no difference – behaviour is exactly the same):<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>- Tried different Ports: 9100, 9200, 9217 and even 9000 by
shutting down my music server (changing the port addresses in ‘Regions.ini’
and ‘opensim.ini’)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>- Tried ‘runprebuild’ (‘compile’
runs with no errors) and ‘runprebuild2008’ (path error for .NETFramework
– I have v3.5 btw)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>- Tried ‘0.0.0.0’, ‘127.0.0.1’, ‘192.168.10.100’
(the server PC internal address) as ‘InternalAddress’ inside ‘Regions.ini’<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>- Tried ‘SYSTEMIP’ and ‘192.168.10.100’
as ‘ExternalHostName’ inside ‘Regions.ini’<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>- Tried ‘127.0.0.1’, ‘192.168.10.100’
and even my external domain name in the various places in ‘opensim.ini’<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>- Tried running the ‘/bin’ application on a
different PC on the intranet (so then the viewers work OK on that PC but not now
on the original server PC)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>- Tried ‘AllowAlternatePorts’ as both True and
False<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>- I have inserted the ‘AV rezzes as cloud’ patch
and rebuilt (that fixed THAT issue!)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>- I have totally rebuilt from scratch many times<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>- I have rebooted all the PC’s at various times<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>- Tried router firewall off and on (not that it should
matter – router is Belkin F5D8635-4v1 btw)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>- Tried Windows firewalls off and on<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>- Searched high and low on the internet (generally and
within the opensim forums)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>All to no avail.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>All I have changed in ‘opensim.ini’ (and ‘Regions.ini’)
are the Port and Internet related addresses. The only other thing I
changed was somewhere I had to uncomment a line to say which version of cache
to use. Everything is ‘out of the box’ (I did, of course, copy
the ‘.ini.examples’ and convert them to ‘.ini’s as
appropriate).<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Has anyone had this issue and actually fixed it? How?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Any help really appreciated. I’m a professional programmer
by the way – but I wasn’t intending to have to start diving into
the opensim source to fix this!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Kevin<o:p></o:p></p>
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