Paul,
The values in standaloinecommon.ini may need changing to support other
things. Waiting for region handshake is caused by the regions.ini setting as
mentioned by Fleep Tuque. The ExternalHostName is resolved by the server to an
address. The server passes that address along with the port number
(InternalPort) to the viewer. If the address passed is a local LAN address
rather than your external IP address then you will stall 'waiting for region
handshake' when logging in from outside the LAN. Hope that helps.
- Gary Beck
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From: Paul Rayner
To: [email protected]
Sent: Saturday, May 18, 2013 3:08 AM
Subject: Re: [Opensim-users] Waiting for Region Handshake
In trying to resolve this, I followed the advice Fleep provided.
I believe I can satisfy all of the suggestions made.
Checking my standalonecommon.ini, I found many instances of 127.0.0.1 - lines
68,76,78-83,155,271,274,290,291,309....should they all be changed to my
external IP address?
With attachment this time
On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 9:24 PM, Fleep Tuque <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi Paul,
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 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. I had to do the
same thing at work for the university grid, having it placed in the DMZ and
assigned an external only static IP.
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 Thu, May 16, 2013 at 5:39 AM, Paul Rayner <[email protected]>
wrote:
Hi
I'm hosting a standalone OpenSim 0.7.5 at home, on Ubuntu 11.10 64bit.
I need/want it for school, and when I try and connect from school I get a
"Waiting for Region Handshake" error when trying to connect with Imprudence
viewer.
I believe I've ascertained the school firewall is open - I used
http://124.254.81.40:9000/simstatus and got the required OK.
My router is a Billion Bipac 7300A. In reading OpenSim documentation, I
only found at last week I need reverse NAT (or something to that effect). I had
never seen it in any system requirements. After checking the web, I believe the
router does support it.
I can connect fine from my LAN.
I'd appreciate ANY advice I can get to have it up and running. I'd dearly
love to have it working ASAP - after a long wait to have the port open at
school. I'm now behind the 8ball timewise.
Paul
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