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Posted by Renakh   (4 posts)  Bio
Date Sun 01 Aug 2004 05:49 AM (UTC)
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Hello,

I'm having a problem with a people trying to connect to my mud on the server. People can connect to my webpage and to the shell by ssh. For some reason no one can connect to the server by telnet. I have my router forwarding port 23 and port 5555 (the muds port) to make sure that everything would work out and yet no one seems to be able to connect.
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Posted by Zeno   USA  (2,871 posts)  Bio
Date Reply #1 on Sun 01 Aug 2004 06:25 PM (UTC)
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Can you connect to your own server? Make sure all the ports used are being allowed by any router, firewall, or virus scanner.

Zeno McDohl,
Owner of Bleached InuYasha Galaxy
http://www.biyg.org
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Posted by Renakh   (4 posts)  Bio
Date Reply #2 on Sun 01 Aug 2004 06:33 PM (UTC)
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I have the main ports forwarded, 21,22,23,80. I also have the 5555 port forwarded because I thought maybe i needed my mud port forward as well, but I still get no remote connection. I can only telnet to it by localhost. (Or localhost, by ssh) You can connect to the webpage, and you can connect to ssh. http://69.133.96.32 or http://novotellus.game-host.org. The only thing that wont allow remote connections is Telnet.
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Posted by Zeno   USA  (2,871 posts)  Bio
Date Reply #3 on Sun 01 Aug 2004 07:40 PM (UTC)
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Just telnet? You mean other clients will work?

You said you can connect to it via localhost, so I assume the game is running.

This does sound like a problem with blocked ports, or something you haven't allowed yet with the router.

Zeno McDohl,
Owner of Bleached InuYasha Galaxy
http://www.biyg.org
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Posted by Renakh   (4 posts)  Bio
Date Reply #4 on Sun 01 Aug 2004 08:11 PM (UTC)
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Yes, You can connect by SSH and http. So, if its the ports then what ports would you say I should forward to try and fix it. As I have said, I got the ssh,telnet,ftp,http, and my mud port already forwarded to my computer.
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Posted by Zeno   USA  (2,871 posts)  Bio
Date Reply #5 on Sun 01 Aug 2004 10:21 PM (UTC)
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You're running Smaug correct? Smaug does use more than one port. Not sure what they are though, my MUD is changed to use only one port.

SSH and HTML use different ports. Usually HTML uses 80, while SHH uses 22. If both those work, but the MUD doesn't, I'm pretty sure its a port issue. Search through old topics, I'm pretty sure you could find something about the ports used, or how to fix this.

Zeno McDohl,
Owner of Bleached InuYasha Galaxy
http://www.biyg.org
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Posted by Nick Gammon   Australia  (23,070 posts)  Bio   Forum Administrator
Date Reply #6 on Sun 01 Aug 2004 11:32 PM (UTC)
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I have the main ports forwarded, 21,22,23,80. I also have the 5555 port forwarded because I thought maybe i needed my mud port forward as well,


There is no "maybe" about it. If the MUD is accepting connections on port 5555 that is the port that needs to be forwarded. The other ports you mention are for ftp, ssh, telnet and http.

Personally I wouldn't forward the other ports (21, 22, 23) because all that is doing is giving ftp, ssh and telnet access to the rest of the world. That is, if they guess your password they can delete or corrupt everything.

I would check that the router is not blocking port 5555, and is also forwarding it, to the correct PC.

- Nick Gammon

www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com
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Posted by Renakh   (4 posts)  Bio
Date Reply #7 on Mon 02 Aug 2004 12:09 AM (UTC)
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Well, I have my other ports so that other people can connect. Once I get all the bugs worked out of the server I'll be hosting a few muds for some friends. I have them setup now so that if I have a problem *like now* if someone needed to connect to the server they would be able to login to it and mess with it to try to see what is wrong.
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Posted by Nick Cash   USA  (626 posts)  Bio
Date Reply #8 on Mon 02 Aug 2004 03:50 AM (UTC)
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Probably a stupid question, but have you checked what port SMAUG is actually running on? It is not set to 5555 by default, you need to go in and change it yourself, recomplie and w/e else.

~Nick Cash
http://www.nick-cash.com
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