Another 1017 post (sorry)

[VoodooGnome]

I have searched the forums, and I know there are a LOT of 1017 posts. However, the only one I found with the exact problem as I have had no responses. When I set my boot5zones.bat and loginserver.ini to my external and internal IP's, other's can connect, but I get 1017. When I set them all to localhost I can connect. I've tried using localhost and 127.0.0.1 in place of my internal IP and still get 1017.

I am behind a router, it's a D-Link and I've forwarded all necessary ports (and then some).

If anyone can offer any suggestions, I would be most grateful. And if more information is needed, just ask. Thanks.

[Sarepean]

First, turn on your DMZ.

Second--- I was told by an admin that my boot5zones.bat was incorrect when he looked at it and that I had my internal and external IPs switched. However, they worked for me both ways and I'm behind a Linksys router. *shrugs* Flip the IP addresses and try it.

Does your loginserver.ini have your world address as your internal or external IP address? Try putting it on your external IP address when you're using boot5zones.bat with internal and external (internet) addresses.



However, I think DMZ may fix the problem.


EDIT:: Also, there are a lot of times when searching the forum doesn't do a lot of good since what you need may not be worded exactly or sometimes people don't reply when a solution suggestion works to let everyone know that THAT solution fixed their problem. Don't be fearful of posting. =P

[cavedude]

Setup a hostname for your machine (you know like foo.com) There are many free services available and it gets the problem every time. Use foo.com in place of your internet IPs. Of course for that to work, you'll need to make an entry in your HOSTS file directing the server's local IP to foo.com

[VoodooGnome]

I tried setting my machine as DMZ before, and it didn't work. As for my boot5zones.bat, it's external port internal, and my loginserver is set to my external. And the "foo.com" thing, I don't know how to do that. Think you could maybe PM me or reply with instructions on exactly how to do that? Thanks for your speedy replies.

EDIT: I just tried using no-ip.com. I have it set up as...

Hostname: myserver.no-ip.org

Host Type:
DNS Host(A) <~(this one selected)
DNS Host (Round Robin)
DNS Alias (CNAME)
Port 80 Redirect
Web Redirect

IP Address: external ip

Assign to Group - - -

Anything there I need to change? And anything else I need to do?

[cavedude]

Replace any mention of your Internet IP address with myserver.no-ip.org in your configuration files (loginserver.ini boot5zones.bat)

Next open your HOSTS file on ANY CLIENT machine on your network that will connect to your server with notepad. Under 2000/XP it is found in WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc Right below the line that says:

127.0.0.1 localhost

Add

Local IP of server myserver.no-ip.org

so for example,

192.168.0.1 myserver.no-ip.org

[VoodooGnome]

Ok, my boot5zones.bat is set to:
start zone . myserver.no-ip.org 7995 localhost (also tried 127.0.0.1 and internal ip)

My loginserver.ini is set to:
world address:myserver.no-ip.org

My host file is set to:
auto.search.msn.com 127.0.0.1
192.168.0.103 myserver.no-ip.org

And I'm still getting 1017 when I try to connect