Cannot connect to my own autohost

[REVENGE]

I've never been able to play or spec in a game run by my autohost. I always get a dns error, with a buch of hex codes after. Any solution to this?

[LordMatt]

Are you behind NAT?

[REVENGE]

Possibly behind a firewalled router. Should I enable some portforwarding?

Also, why can't my game client just be directed to connect to localhost?

[LordMatt]

Also, why can't my game client just be directed to connect to localhost?

Well, I have run into this issue and had to add some sed lines to my wrapper script for spring to convert the IP I am trying to connect to from the remote IP to the correct local one when I connected to my own autohost. Dunno how you would do this on windows though.

[REVENGE]

Could probably setup some kind of connection filter or something equivalent. No shortage of those kinds of utilities in Windows. How did you do yours btw?

[LordMatt]

I used sed to change script.txt to replace the remote IP with the local one before spring launch.

[REVENGE]

I see, I'll look into this.

[aegis]

the lobby server should do this automatically >_<

[Peet]

Springie is probably failing to provide its local IP properly.

[LordMatt]

the lobby server should do this automatically >_<

I'm curious how the lobby server would know the local IP.

[Peet]

All clients are supposed to send it in the LOGIN command.

[LordMatt]

I don't understand. (by local IP I mean e.g. 192.168.x.x)

[Peet]

http://lobby.clan-sy.com/lobby/protocol ... GIN:client

[REVENGE]

So to fix this, do I just turn on port forwarding?

[aegis]

or poke licho to figure out your local ip

[REVENGE]

or poke licho to figure out your local ip