Tom,
Regarding the connection refused on ports 9001-9004. It's likely the
remote port testing site only detects listening TCP ports. I assume your login
URL (TCP) points to port 9000. That would account for success on port 9000.
The other ports are open but the server is only listening on UDP there so TCP
communication would be 'refused.'
- Gary Beck
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From: Tom Willans
To: [email protected]
Sent: Sunday, April 21, 2013 3:36 PM
Subject: Re: [Opensim-users] External Access to standalone
Thank you to everyone who helped all is now working - simple when it works!
I have a standalone diva distribution (0.75 opensim) with 5 regions working
(ports 9000-9004) and 3 simultaneous avatars working with insignificant lag,
even with my ancient Pentium 4 Processors. Curiously
http://www.canyouseeme.org/ reports ports 9001-9004 as connection refused
which proved to be a red herring.
The primary issues related to the dynamic address not updating as expected
and configuring the BT Home Hub 3 router (there is a lot of confusion on the
web regarding versions A or B and firmware updates e.g. NAT loop back or not.)
.
- A dynamic dns service linked a url to my address to my routers external
address (dynamic)
- The ExternalHostName was set to this external URL in both the
MyWorld.ini and Region.ini files e.g. Region Config.ini
- Port forwarding was set up for TCP and UDP on ports 9000-9004.
BT Home Hub 3 despite many BT community forum blogs comments must now be
supporting NAT loop back (the router recognises that the external url refers to
its own address). I am now able to access the server over the internal LAN as
well. I need to add the BT Home Hub 3 to the open simulator site as working.
Next step is making is to make this robust/backups etc. Oh and recruit
participants :)
Thanks again.
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
+44 (0)121 288 0281
email: [email protected]
skype: tom.willans
Second Life and OSGrid: Tom Tiros
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On 17 Apr 2013, at 12:59, Fleep Tuque <[email protected]> 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
[email protected]
(513) 556-3018
http://ucsim.uc.edu
On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 12:44 AM, Tom <[email protected]> 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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