Hosting for Absolute Beginners

tinkthank · #1 March 29th, 2004, 06:15 PM

OK thanks, that was helpful. I will try to test it out when feeling brave.
And quite honestly, never heard of the term "crack", ever (in regards to computers), and despite being a computer idiot I do read lots of newspapers and watch all films in the English original (I live in Germany).

Alneyan · #2 March 29th, 2004, 06:44 PM

Hacker should mean someone who knows a lot about how computers actually work, so hackers would be expert Users knowing how to tweak a computer, make a program, and the list goes on. On the other hand, a cracker is someone attempting to break through computers, sites, and so on.

So while hacker usually means "computer literate" (in short, feel free to expand), cracker is more specific to illegal activies. But both words are often mixed, and hacker is used to describe what should be cracking. I am not sure if I make much sense though... *Grumbles*

Torvak · #3 March 29th, 2004, 06:54 PM

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Originally posted by Minrhael:
Not to hijack the thread, but since it's here, I think I finally got mine set up host but as I really don't know what I'm doing, anyone want to try to connect to 192.168.1.100 6060 and tell me if it's working? Thanks!

I take it you're behind a router. 192.168.1.100 is no adress that can be seen from the outside but a local one assigned from dhcp. So you need to get the real ip adress of your router and setup port fowarding to the machine that is running dominions.

tinkthank · #4 March 29th, 2004, 07:02 PM

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Originally posted by Torvak:

quote:
Originally posted by Minrhael:
Not to hijack the thread, but since it's here, I think I finally got mine set up host but as I really don't know what I'm doing, anyone want to try to connect to 192.168.1.100 6060 and tell me if it's working? Thanks!

I take it you're behind a router. 192.168.1.100 is no adress that can be seen from the outside but a local one assigned from dhcp. So you need to get the real ip adress of your router and setup port fowarding to the machine that is running dominions.

Torvak, were you replying to me? Well I play Dii on different computers, depending on where I am. Does figuring out the "real" IP of the router something different than that /cmd thingy mentioned in those previous Posts? Is the IP of the router different than that of the computer?
sorry

Tals · #5 March 29th, 2004, 07:20 PM

Getting back to the initial topic

Has anyone got the command line to setup a host, gens when all turns are submitted + 24 hr if not.

Additionally to spice it up, i;ve seen one send an email when the turn is genned is that possible.

I'm playing 2 games at the mo one ip one pbem. Usually I swear by pbem but Doms 2 ip is very well done.

Tals

PhilD · #6 March 29th, 2004, 09:59 PM

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Originally posted by tinkthank:

quote:
Originally posted by Torvak:

quote:
Originally posted by Minrhael:
Not to hijack the thread, but since it's here, I think I finally got mine set up host but as I really don't know what I'm doing, anyone want to try to connect to 192.168.1.100 6060 and tell me if it's working? Thanks!

I take it you're behind a router. 192.168.1.100 is no adress that can be seen from the outside but a local one assigned from dhcp. So you need to get the real ip adress of your router and setup port fowarding to the machine that is running dominions.
Torvak, were you replying to me? Well I play Dii on different computers, depending on where I am. Does figuring out the "real" IP of the router something different than that /cmd thingy mentioned in those previous Posts? Is the IP of the router different than that of the computer?
sorry

If you have a router, and the machine that is supposed to be the server is on a LAN that's connected to the internet through the router, then most likely asking for the IP# of the machine will give you some "internet-invalid" address like 192.168.0.?

If that's the case, then you need to figure out what the IP address of the router is, setup the router to forward anything it receives on port YYY to 192.168.0.whatever (the local IP of your machine), port ZZZ.

Then launch the server on port ZZZ, and tell other players to connect to (the IP of your router), port YYY.

Essentially, the router makes it so that anything it receives on a certain port arrives on one of the machines on your LAN, at another (or the same) port.

Thus, several servers, running (apparently) on the same IP address, only at different ports, could in fact run on different machines.

Gandalf Parker · #7 March 29th, 2004, 10:18 PM

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Originally posted by Tals:
Has anyone got the command line to setup a host, gens when all turns are submitted + 24 hr if not.

Additionally to spice it up, i;ve seen one send an email when the turn is genned is that possible.

For which operating system? Solaris? Mac? Linux? WIndows? (it does make a difference. Especially for question 2)