Outside connections

[techguy84]

Change your local address to your internal ip like 192.168.x.x. See what happens there.

[leslamarch]

*Face turns red with embarrassment*
It worked just perfect, if i may understand this correctly, is it set to 192.168.1.1 instead of 127.0.0.1 because the login server is hosted elsewhere and It needs to know what computer on the network is running the server? Just trying to figure out why so i can understand eqemu just a bit more.
Thank you very much for your patiences and all the great help
LL

[Darkonig]

It needs to be other than 127.0.0.1 if the server needs to talk to locations other than localhost. Using the localhost address does seem to work ok if you do not run a local client at all, but can cause problems if you decide to connect locally at some point for testing or whatever.

If you are running only on the local machine and never connect from external then you must use 127.0.0.1. If you do not, it will fail if your network connection dies for any reason. (note: it will work if the network connection is up, but why take chances).

[rodorant]

I am having a similar issue, I try to connect to my server from another computer on my network and it will not connect.

Could you post what you now have your config ip's set at?

<!--<address>my server IP</address>-->
<!--<localaddress>192.168.10.xx8</localaddress>-->

This is what mine is set at now and is not working. Server shows up but cannot connect to it. Should 'my server IP' be set to an actual address?

Anyone have any idea?

[Angelox]

How about firewalls, you got any of those running?

[leslamarch]

Well i set it to this after techguys recommendations. First I DMZ'd Router for testing purposes only.

<address>name.no-ip.com</address>
<localaddress>192.168.1.1</localaddress>

and it then let me connect.
Hope this helps you
best regards,
LL

[rodorant]

so it really does not matter what you set the 'address' field to right?

and that is your gateway address right? not your serving computer IP?