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Anonymous - Sat Jun 30, 2007 12:27 am
Post subject: Zone Connection

Zone can be downloaded to the zone list
Zone name appears red
Can't connect to the zone
Ports have been forwarded
Ideas?

Cancer+ - Sat Jun 30, 2007 12:38 am
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server.ini ?

Anonymous - Sat Jun 30, 2007 1:39 am
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What about it?

Solo Ace - Sat Jun 30, 2007 2:09 am
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Post it.

Smong - Sat Jun 30, 2007 12:41 pm
Post subject: Re: Zone Connection

Sound wrote:

Can't connect to the zone

Is it you that can't connect or everyone?

If you're hosting your own zone you need to use the "Add Custom" button on the zone downloader, set the IP to 127.0.0.1 and don't use the real zone name otherwise the IP will get overwritten next time you refresh the zone list.

Anonymous - Sat Jun 30, 2007 2:32 pm
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Adding zone custom shows a ping, but still can't enter
Nobody can enter, but they can put it on their zone list.

BDwinsAlt - Sat Jun 30, 2007 3:35 pm
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It's obviously a port forwarding issue, even if you do think you set it up correctly. Remeber UDP, not TCP. Check your windows firewall and everything.

Anonymous - Sat Jun 30, 2007 7:34 pm
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I thought port forwarding was the issue. I switched my ports from tcp to udp but it still doesn't work, same problem.

BDwinsAlt - Sat Jun 30, 2007 9:39 pm
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If you had it at TCP to start, you already started wrong. Please have an ini and some screenshots of the forwards forwarded. Type ipconfig in the command prompt and give us the output. I'm betting either the lan ip has changed, or a firewall is still blocking a port.

Anonymous - Sun Jul 22, 2007 11:17 pm
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I've tried it with my firewall down so i don't believe it's a port forwarding issue, here's the server.ini and subbill.ini.

tcsoccerman - Mon Jul 23, 2007 9:46 am
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use "localhost" for the port in the [billing] section.i'm guessing you click play and then you get the little stars for a while and nothing happens. also, try posting what the command prompt says...if you have enough time.

tcsoccerman - Mon Jul 23, 2007 10:08 am
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ignore that last post. change:

Code: Show/Hide

[Billing]
LogMessages=0
IP=127.0.0.1
Password=password
//What is the billing pw in the subbill.ini
ServerName=DARE Adroit

Code: Show/Hide

[Billing]
LogMessages=0
IP=localhost
Password=password
//What is the billing pw in the subbill.ini
ServerName=DARE Adroit

i had that problem, although i switched to asss *hint hint*, and never had that problem again.i'm pretty sure this problem is on shanky.com FAQ. good luck though.

Anonymous - Mon Jul 23, 2007 2:00 pm
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No deal.
When i run ipconfig it opens then closes a second after.

tcsoccerman - Mon Jul 23, 2007 2:43 pm
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you mean commandprompt?

Anonymous - Mon Jul 23, 2007 2:59 pm
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Here it is.
Windows IP Configuration

Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.15.2
Subnet Mask. . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway. . . . . . . . : 192.168.15.1

Cancer+ - Mon Jul 23, 2007 7:40 pm
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Why are you 15.2 ? Usually it is 0.2

I bet somewhere lies the problem.

wEaViL - Mon Jul 23, 2007 9:27 pm
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The ip numbers not going to matter as far as the router goes. You can set most of them up to be 192.168.x.1 as where x is just about any number for the router. So no thats not going to be his problem.

Cheese - Wed Jul 25, 2007 1:05 am
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idk if 0 works though,
numbers go 1-255.
IP ADDRESSES DO NOT CONTAIN ZEROES.

..........or so i think...........

Solo Ace - Wed Jul 25, 2007 1:52 am
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They don't now? What? Cool. Explain the 10.0.0.* range for me then.

Maverick - Wed Jul 25, 2007 6:42 am
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Cheese wrote:

numbers go 1-255.
IP ADDRESSES DO NOT CONTAN ZEROES.

hahaha, IP numbers go from 0-255 (giving the magic number of 256 total numbers).
Almost every number in a computer starts with a 0

Anonymous - Thu Aug 09, 2007 3:51 am
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No ideas?

BDwinsAlt - Thu Aug 09, 2007 7:44 am
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Maverick wrote:

[..]

hahaha, IP numbers go from 0-255 (giving the magic number of 256 total numbers).
Almost every number in a computer starts with a 0

001001101010000111010100100111101000101010110?
127.0.0.1?
192.168.0.1?

Sorry for the late response.

cReEmY - Thu Aug 09, 2007 3:45 pm
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Anonymous wrote:

Your using a static IP. What kind of router model do you have?

BDwinsAlt - Thu Aug 09, 2007 7:48 pm
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Nothing above indicates that he is using a static ip.

D1st0rt - Thu Aug 09, 2007 8:39 pm
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Cheese wrote:

idk if 0 works though,
numbers go 1-255.
IP ADDRESSES DO NOT CONTAIN ZEROES.

..........or so i think...........

http://www.inetdaemon.com/tutorials/theory/number_systems/binary/masks.shtml

Cheese - Thu Aug 09, 2007 10:15 pm
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address != mask
=/

127.0.0.1 = loopback, doesnt count

Maverick - Fri Aug 10, 2007 3:04 am
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BDwinsAlt wrote:

Nothing above indicates that he is using a static ip.

lol indeed.
WTF creemy

cReEmY - Fri Aug 10, 2007 10:51 am
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I had to do some configuring to make my ip static and it became 192.168.2.136 after that.

Solo Ace - Fri Aug 10, 2007 2:29 pm
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I got my car out of the garage, and it became a speedboat after that.

Solo Ace - Fri Aug 10, 2007 2:39 pm
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I was actually trying to make a point in that post.

Cheese, stop being a pain. One of the RFC'd private network ranges is 10.0.0.0/8. VeriSign's root server's IP is 194.41.0.4.

Maverick - Fri Aug 10, 2007 3:00 pm
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cReEmY wrote:

I had to do some configuring to make my ip static and it became 192.168.2.136 after that.

You made your computer IP static within your own network. Good job but that doesn't change anything about your IP on the internet which may still be dynamic. You can't change it or make it static though, it's up to your ISP.

BDwinsAlt - Fri Aug 10, 2007 8:12 pm
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Routers (and computers if you have a direct connection to your modem) can attempt to make it static (sort of). If the ISP changes your IP Range, then the static IP assigned by your router won't work. I have a static IP setup with my router on my Dynamic internet connection.

Mine GO BOOM - Fri Aug 10, 2007 9:04 pm
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BDwinsAlt wrote:

I have a static IP setup with my router on my Dynamic internet connection.

Sucks for you if their DHCP server assigns the IP to someone else.

Anonymous - Sat Aug 11, 2007 12:49 am
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Ok, now that that's over, any ideas on my problem?

Solo Ace - Sat Aug 11, 2007 3:22 am
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Make sure you've done what's in the post by tsoccerman.
You're running your own biller, IP=127.0.0.1 should be IP=localhost.

You'll have to enter your zone by using a local connection. Try adding a custom zone entry, with 127.0.0.1 as IP address, 2386 as port, and well, pick whatever name you'd like (make it "DARE Adroit (local)" or something).

The rest of the settings should be fine to use (if not, we'll see about that later).

You will have to use the custom zone entry you made in order to enter your zone.

People from the Internet AKA your players/visitors will have to use the entry from the zone list.
The zone list gives your WAN IP (the internet IP you browse with, which is 216.73.216.209 (I don't know your WAN IP, using "[userip]" in my post displays it automagically)) and the port to players.
You've forwarded the ports 2386 and 2387 for those people, not for yourself (you're using a local connection anyway).
Misc:ServerIP should be set to your WAN IP.

This should get you connected, and if your ports are forwarded correctly, it should let others connect too.
If you can connect, but others can't, check your NAT configurations.

If you still have problems, please be specific (post process output/errors).