Hosting Help in Developer Help

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Dec 16 2004, 5:32 pm
My PC won't let me host Byond games and I can't figure out how to fix this problem. I do have a router which has a firewall. I have the firewall disabled. I don't know what I'm supposed to change in the router stuff. I looked in the 'Help Center' section, but that proved to be no help. All I learned there is that Byond is getting my router IP adress and not the IP adress it is supposed to get. I'm not to good with these kind of things so I don't know what I need to change. If its of any help the type of Router I use is a D-Link 604 Ethernet Broadband Router.
#1 Dec 16 2004, 5:34 pm
So you have DMZ enabled(if possible), disabled the hardware firewall, and forwarded all ports on any local(software) firewalls you have?
#2 Dec 16 2004, 6:22 pm
In response to Lenox (#1)
I haven't a clue what forwarding the ports is or what DMZ is. I'm not very good with these things.
#3 Dec 16 2004, 6:28 pm
In response to Codesterz (#2)
Call your router company >.>
#4 Dec 16 2004, 6:47 pm
In response to N1ghtW1ng (#3)
N1ghtW1ng wrote:
Call your router company >.>

Heh. Haven't we had a talk about this before? Most tech support(s?) put you on hold, then send you to a foreign person, who can't speak your language very well, then, they put you on hold while they get someone else to try, and another foreign person comes on, saying "Hewwo, I R BILI JO B0b. H(at symbol, pronounced like A)H(at symbol, pronounced like A), I made a funy! Hold Pwease." on hold again. Puts you on another foreign tech support person. Repeat.

Anyways, I believe DMZ means Demilitarization Zone.
#5 Dec 16 2004, 6:49 pm
In response to Lenox (#4)
I looked at my router setting and there is a little section for DMZ. It has an IP adress where you can change the last digtis and has an enabled and disabled box with disabled selected.
#6 Dec 16 2004, 6:51 pm
In response to Codesterz (#5)
Select enable, and get the fourth quartet of your internal IP by going to start > run > cmd > ipconfig, assuming you have windows.


ADDITION:

Don't forget the tech support guy who answers, but starts talking like, "OMFG Liek DBZ M8!!! DBZ R0xx0rs yor s0xx0rs!!1111111111111"
#7 Dec 16 2004, 6:56 pm
In response to Lenox (#6)
alright I did all that
#8 Dec 16 2004, 7:00 pm
In response to Lenox (#6)
Lenox wrote:
Select enable, and get the fourth quartet of your internal IP by going to start > run > cmd > ipconfig, assuming you have windows.


ADDITION:

Don't forget the tech support guy who answers, but starts talking like, "OMFG Liek DBZ M8!!! DBZ R0xx0rs yor s0xx0rs!!1111111111111"

Bad idea. Only put machines that have additional firewall protection inside a DMZ. Letting windows open all its ports to the world isn't a good thing. :)

Port forwarding, or "virtual server" lets one choose which ports are forwarded instead of all.
#9 Dec 16 2004, 7:02 pm
In response to Jon88 (#8)
Jon88 wrote:
Bad idea. Only put machines that have additional firewall protection inside a DMZ. Letting windows open all its ports to the world isn't a good thing. :)

Port forwarding, or "virtual server" lets one choose which ports are forwarded instead of all.


:P How do we know he doesn't have a firewall, that is not hardware? :P