Hey,

I'm having that exact same issue with my server. I thought that maybe we could help each other out. I checked out your sever (it's there), but I couldn't connect to it. It said that the operation was taking longer than expexted, and then came back with an error message saying that I could not connect, and possibly that the server was offline (which it wasnt because I refreshed the broweser).

My server is like yours, behind a Router (mine's a Linksys), with ports 2300 - 2400 forwarded to it. In the in-game browser on another machine connected to the network, I also get "yes" listed in the "LAN" section. If you wouldn;t mind trying out my server, "!!!!!Crackmonkey's Treebranch," maybe we can see if we share common problems?

Hopefully we can get this sorted out!
e-mail me if you;d like to talk more about this issue.

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Yeah if youre behind a router running a dedicated server on a network box you'll need to port forward port 2300-2304 UDP from the router. So anytime someone accesses (sic) your IP through that port it will go to your server box. Hopefully that helps out.

Alex

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I connected to the internet to see if it was up and running,and it seems like it is, however, there's where thing I noticed, I noticed that it says LAN " yes"... I guess because I'm connected to a network, that has an effect on me...

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Exactly, because it searches Lan and Internet, and finds it on the Lan first. If you see it in the Global, anyone else on the Internet should see it also.

my server works fine..

I'm behind a Nat cisco router.. everything seems to work fine to me.

fixed it ... had to open the ip address to my dmz server

and it seems like it works as one of my freinds logged on ..

veryone is welcomed to try it as well

mp84's Freelancer World

is what it's called, 24/7 dedicated server... on a cable modem, 1.2 GHZ machine

for the moment, max players will be 16 , but I'll increase it if I find that it can be more stable with more players

have fun

Mike

If you had to open the DMZ on your router, that means you didnt forward all the right ports.

I don't know if I explained it right, my friend was helping me out with it, and he told me to just put the ip address under the dmz default driver I think its called


anyhow, my friend , and another friend of mine too was able to log onto the server, so it's gotta work, or at least I hope it does, hehe...

Mike

Ya, I didnt mean to say it wouldn't work, but using DMZ opens your whole machine up to the outside. Was just saying it's safer if you just forward the ports instead.

I see your point, and thanks, that's exactly what I did, i just opened ports 2302-2304, and it seems like it works, but let me know if it does for you, I gave the external ip address in the other thread I posted, thanks again ..

Mike