Server Help

wEaViL · Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2004 9:10 am Post subject: Generic Router How To

Many thanks to GGTM, Cyan~Fire, Smong, and all of the MGB server help staff. This may only be used on minegoboom.com and shanky.com, others will need my permission.

If this does not work for you, give Portforward.com's How-Tos a try.

~Index~

1. What to do first
2.Things you need to know
2a. Router Access Point
2b. Computer/Server IP
2c. Server/Router IP
2d. Biller Version
3. Router Settings
4. Firewall Settings
5. Biller settings <if using Catid's Biller>
6. Server Settings

Section 1 What to do first
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Setup your server like normal using the tutorial from shanky.com: How to setup a zone

Section 2 What you need to know
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There are many things you need to know in order to set up your server. You will need to make note of your Router Access Point, Computer/Server IP, Server/Router IP, and Biller Version.

2a. Router Access Point-
This is the IP you use to access the router settings. To find your access point use the below chart. Leave the command window open after you use it as for you will need it again.

wEaViL · Posted: Thu Jul 08, 2004 12:44 am Post subject:

Something I found to help with setting up netgear's
http://kbserver.netgear.com/kb_web_files/N101145.asp#RP614Anchor

a_bug · Posted: Fri Jul 09, 2004 1:49 pm Post subject:

i just wanna say thank you so so so so so much, words cannot express my gratitude, ty so much omg it fianlly works !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

JoWie-tolazytologin · Guest Offline

You can also use DMZ, this would disable the router's firewall for one computer, so basicly it would allow every port among other things

wEaViL · Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2004 1:42 pm Post subject:

That is not something anyone should do... that will open you up to any hacker or hijacker that wants into your comp.

Cyan~Fire · Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2004 7:28 pm Post subject:

DMZ is for newbs.

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wEaViL · Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2004 3:59 am Post subject:

That too lol

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what is dmz

Night_Fox · Posted: Fri Oct 01, 2004 4:32 pm Post subject:

Firewall option: DMZ (Demilitarized Zone)

If you have a local client PC that cannot run an Internet application properly from behind the NAT firewall, then you can open the client up to unrestricted two-way Internet access by defining a Virtual DMZ Host.

Multiple PCs can be exposed to the Internet for two-way communications e.g. Internet gaming, video conferencing, or VPN connections. To use the DMZ, you must set a static IP address for that PC.

Solo Ace · Posted: Fri Oct 01, 2004 4:55 pm Post subject:

It's not a firewall option but a NAT routing option.

Using a DMZ was considered "dangerous" and "for newbs" earlier in this thread because every incoming connection from outside the LAN would be forwarded to the DMZ host, which can be dangerous because every service running on that system would be reachable from the internet (or at least, from outside your LAN).

E.g. if you would have a shared drive on your system and leave your Netbios service (this mostly uses port 139) unprotected somebody could easily attach to your shared drive(s) and view, delete or download your files.

You don't need to forward ports for outgoing connections, incoming only.

A static IP address is not required, you only have to change the port forwarding settings to another IP if it changes.

cancer · Guest Offline

anyone know anything about dsl routers and how u would go about doing that?

Cyan~Fire · Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2005 8:38 pm Post subject:

It depends on what brand you use. Go to the website for your brand, find the online manual, and look up how to forward ports.

Night_Fox · Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2005 6:17 am Post subject:

Depends also on what ADSL router you got?
Brand name and series?

rootbear75 · Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2005 12:21 pm Post subject:

what if we dont have a static ip?
do we need to goto that site every time we run our zone?

Samapico · Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2005 12:20 pm Post subject:

I guess so. Or you can setup a no-ip account that will redirect to your ip, no matter if it changes... so you'd set ServerIP to something like myaccount.no-ip.info and it would redirect to your IP
www.no-ip.com

(I did not try it yet, but I'm pretty sure it works)

Also, if you did set up your router and server.ini as told in this thread, and that you still can't connect to your zone, try adding it as a custom zone with the IP 127.0.0.1 :
Zones -
Add Custom -
Zone Name -(Whatever the zone's name is)
Ip=127.0.0.1
Port=(Whatever the port is of the zone)

Or, edit the zones.dat file to modify your zone's IP ... it will do the same thing.

I've had this problem (and know other people had) and doing this fixed it (thanks to Cyan~Fire

) . When you have that problem, other people should be able to connect to your zone, just not you.
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Mar|o · Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2006 8:33 pm Post subject:

I tried the way it sad up there, didn't work, I tried using portfoward.com my zone was still red, I just cannot seem to be able to foward the prts on my router allowing my zone not to be red. Can somebody help me!

wEaViL · Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2006 5:12 am Post subject:

Are you possibly behind a firewall? If you forwarded the ports then its got to be 1 of 2 things... firewall or the ports your using are used by another program or blocked by your isp.

Mar|o · Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2006 11:10 am Post subject:

I actaully dont have a firewall at all

RiGhTiOcHaP · Newbie Joined: Jun 03 2006 Posts: 1 Offline

Heh... thx weavil. I happened to have a router, and three firewalls to back it up. Windows xp, the router, and McAfee, the obvious one. For anyone making a new zone, i just have to say to follow All of weavils steps, designate clear ports for Everything (such as:5000-5001) and then last of all, make sure you have accounted for All of your firewalls.

I think it took me about 5 hours to realize that the dumb windows xp firewall was the only thing stopping my zone from going up.

So marlo, you may not have a router.. but make sure to check your whole computer for firewalls. You may want to deactive everything, open your whole computer up and try running it, just to make sure that its not your server.ini file thats messed up. thx again weavil

its people like you that keep people like me lazy.

Solo Ace · Posted: Sat Jun 03, 2006 2:10 am Post subject:

wEaViL · Posted: Mon Jun 05, 2006 1:33 am Post subject:

Your welcome, just glad to be able to help people to get there zones to work. Took a little while to figure out what all needed to be done to allow a server behind a router to allow connects. Glad my tut's are still helping people.

Samapico · Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2010 12:02 pm Post subject:

There are some cases where you will be unable to see the zone green yourself. You'll have to manually add a zone with the IP 127.0.0.1. If that zone is still red, then your server has a problem. This step should work with or without port forwarding, since everything stays inside your local network.

Once you can connect to it like that, check if the zone appears in the zones list when you download new zones.
If it does, ask someone else to download the zone list, add your zone, and try to connect to it. Other people (outside your local network) should see the zone green and be able to connect if port forwarding is correctly set.

How did you "use portforward.com" exactly? Show us what you set in your router.