Hosting for Absolute Beginners

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Originally posted by tinkthank:

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Originally posted by Torvak:

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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.

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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

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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.