Spring RTS Engine

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?

Are you behind NAT?

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

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

REVENGE wrote: 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.

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?

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

I see, I'll look into this.

the lobby server should do this automatically >_<

Springie is probably failing to provide its local IP properly.

aegis wrote:the lobby server should do this automatically >_<

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

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

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

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

or poke licho to figure out your local ip

aegis wrote:or poke licho to figure out your local ip