Hi Lyndon, The latest update to L4D2 demo significantly improved the situation with dedicated servers behind NAT. mm_dedicated_force_servers in L4D2 now allows you to specify 2 addresses for the server: public and private (and usually can detect the other from the server with a LAN broadcast), so in your case for L4D2 you would need to just do: mm_dedicated_force_servers "66.67.68.69:27015|192.168.1.50:27015"
I will merge the change over to L4D too. Thanks, -Vitaliy ________________________________________ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] On Behalf Of Lyndon Leverington [[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, November 14, 2009 1:04 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [hlds] L4D Server from LAN Hi all, Sorry if this has been covered somewhere. I have a L4D server on my LAN, which is connectable via WAN using my external IP address, and also by using a DNS forwarded address of this.domain.com. External clients can connect to it no problems via either the IP or domain name, and I can connect to it ONLY via my internal IP of 192.168.1.50. To remedy this, I set up a Static DNS of "this.domain.com" to point to 192.168.1.50 in my router. This works fine, so on my LAN I can type "connect this.domain.com" from the console with no problems at all, but when I "mm_dedicated_force_servers this.domain.com" it doesn't work - It just times out. Does anyone know why this is? I have a Dynalink RTA1046VW router, which afaik doesn't have loopback which I hear is the problem, but I read that setting up the Static DNS paths is a way around this. As I have seen it is ok for connecting to the server via console from LAN, but not for forcing the server. This is driving me insane as I'm sure there is an obvious fix to this, but I just can't see it! I'm sure I'm not the only person with a server who likes to be able to start a game from the lobby with friends not on the lan! Thanks all, Lyndon _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
