hosting with an IP

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Jan 5 2004, 7:07 am
Hi

I think i know this is possible anyway.

To host with an ip do you click host in the corner of dream seeker and set that up, when you want people to connect to it would you tell them to connect to byond://"myiphere":"port given by dream seeker"
because that does not seem to be working.

thanks
Mousie.
Jan 5 2004, 7:24 am
The byond://ip.ip.ip.ip:port format does in fact work; I've used it myself.

Odds are you're running up against a router or firewall at your end that hasn't been properly configured to allow hosting. I suggest you do a forum search on how to configure routers or firewalls.

Lummox JR
Jan 5 2004, 7:37 am
In response to Lummox JR
Well i am connected through a network, and i dont have a firewall because i am allways recinving mass pop-ups and spam things.

Would it matter if i was connected through a network?
Jan 5 2004, 8:00 am
In response to Mousie_kebabs
Just depends on how your network is connecting you to the internet. If you're "on a network", I'd assume you have a LAN behind a router somewhere, in this case you can probably map a port to your specific computer for use with BYOND. The router will have an IP address that is visible to the internet, while the computers behind the router, on the LAN, all use private IP addresses, which the internet doesn't recognize. Mapping a port to a private IP address (the address of the computer you're hosting from) will dedicate all traffic on that specific port just to that one computer, so when people try to connect to you, their traffic will be sent to the appropriate computer. Find out if you've got a router connecting you to the internet, and from there we can tell you what to do. Actually, if you gave us the first number in your IP address, we could probably determine if its private or not, and whether or not you're behind a router.
Jan 5 2004, 9:06 am
In response to Mousie_kebabs
Mousie_kebabs wrote:
Well i am connected through a network, and i dont have a firewall because i am allways recinving mass pop-ups and spam things.

That doesn't mean you don't have a firewall; it just means the popups you get are going right through it. Popups on Web sites aren't restricted by firewalls at all. And if you're getting them during regular computer use, it means you've fallen victim to the thing that corrupts people's .hosts files and adds ad sites to them.

Lummox JR
Jan 5 2004, 9:57 am
In response to Mousie_kebabs
Mousie, kind of like you can't play/host Duke Nukem Online, it's similar to that. You're network (and probobly a firewall, you might just not know about it, firewalls mainly stop hackers, not pop-ups) is not allowing you to host.