Server Help

[No Friends...]

... it appers red (offline) to everyone else....

also, how can i "scramble" my IP so people cant see it like on the other zones....

[Mr Ekted]

You can't hide your IP. That's the only way the server knows how to send packets back to you. It's like trying to have a back and forth discussion with a pen pal using the wrong return address.
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[No Friends...]

But if you use Trace on other zones, theres like 30 IPs...

[Mr Ekted]

A trace shows all the IP address of all the routers the packets go through from the source to the destination.

[No Friends...]

So... what u mean is it show all the people's IPs that are playing?

[Cyan~Fire]

No, all the routers it's going through. You do realize that the internet isn't just like one big LAN switch, it has a bunch of routers called the 'internet backbone' which redirect your request to smaller and smaller networks.
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[No Friends...]

Ok, i get it. Well can you answer my original question?

[Mr Ekted]

Do you have a firewall? You have to open an additional port for players to see "zone pings". It's the normal port plus one. So if the server is running on port 5000, you need to open port 5001 as well.

[No Friends...]

yes i have a firewall (i thought i may have had to do with it :/) and how do you open more ports? just shut off the firewall?

[Cyan~Fire]

No, you can't just safely shut off the firewall.

If you have a Linksys router, check out this post.
Anything else: general instructions are here.