Hi guys.
This one's a real puzzle. Get ready.
I run smaugFUSS through Cygwin off of a Windows XP desktop. Everything normally works fine.
However, I've just purchased and networked a new laptop. I have a new wireless router as well. (These details may be unnecessary)
After the installation of the network, I can no longer access my MUD from my MUD client. It's as if the MUD (which is hosted on my own desktop) is invisible.
Any ideas? I can't just give up on trying to fix this: I need my MUD.
You can no longer access your MUD? Is it hosted on your local computer? Or is it hosted on another computer?
Going to take a stab in the dark here, but I think it could be a port forwarding type of issue. If it worked fine until you installed the router, that's very likely the issue. Most of them have pretty good documentation / intuitive set ups for this. I've also found a good deal of help using google searches and the like.
Hope that helps.
Zeno - it's hosted on my local computer. I'm thinking it might be a firewall issue, but I'm pretty much clueless.
Gatewaysysop - I'm still googling around. Thanks for the suggestion.
I meant, is it hosted on the same computer you're trying to connect to from? If not, then make sure you're using the right IP. You can't use localhost.
On same comp as connecting from.
Did anything ever come out of your investigating the port forwarding issue? Do you have that enabled and forwarding the right port to the right machine?
From the same computer? I find that odd. Make sure you're connecting to the right port. I've never seen a problem with ports on the same computer.
Alright, I figured it out.
It was the new wireless router I bought. It has a hardware firewall which I had to reconfigure to allow port access. Pain in the ass getting there, but really simple in the end.
I have to access the MUD, as far as I can tell, using "localhost" as the address.
However, now I want to access the MUD from my laptop. In other words, I want external access from anybody who wants to connect to the MUD on my server.
Any ideas?
You'll need to use the internal IP of the computer that it's hosted on. Type ipconfig in the command prompt to find out.
IPCONFIG helped me with my problem, Zeno. Much thanks. It did, however, present another. I now, using that IP, can access the MUD being hosted on my local network from elsewhere within the network (in this case, wirelessly from within range of my router). However, whenever I leave the range of my router and am on any other network (suhc as a cafe or a school network), that IP no longer works.
I believe it MAY be that the IP is a local IP, because it's something like 168.78.1.2 while the wireless laptop is ".1.3. When I'm on a different network, i get a different IP - 10.0.0.1, for example, at the current location.
So, it basically seems like these IPs are localized. I don't know networking well, so I'm not sure really what's going on.
At this point, my problem is accessing the server within my home network that hosts the MUD from OUTSIDE of the network. Any ideas?
You need to configure the router to "port forward" your MUD port to the appropriate internal IP address.
It worked. Thanks for your help Nick. :)