LAN works WAN doesm't launch to space

alex61821

Hi i am hoping you can help me get my flserver woring properly. I setup one at work and computers on the LAN can play it fine. When people offsite connect to it from offsite they can create a character go shopping go to the bar and do anything they want but as soon as they launch to space it gives them a flashing red disconnect icon.

So i am a little stumped.

The machine gets a registered dns address and i have checked that it is able to listen on udp port 2302-2304. I just cant think of what the difference would be between LAN and WAN. I have tried this on both a XP and Windows 7 box.

Looking for any help here and thanks in advance.

rsabatino

first thing are you in charge of the system at work? because some companys dont even let theyre employees connect to the net without certain permissions. also with windows 7 make sure ivp 6 is not checked. you should run freelancer on a server with xp. with 7 you have to elevate everything to administrador including fl server. ok now i am going to give you a link save this to your favorites

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/814550

this link i found it along time ago it is good to reference this to make sure your router is configured the right way. also the computer that you are running the server on should be dmz if your router has a plug hole for dmz put the plug for the server in there that will make it available to everybody. thats all i know for now.

alex61821

Thanks for replying. Checked with the network guys here at work and they not only will allow me to run it they want to join in on my server. The machine is a registered machine with dns so it gets an actual address no port forwarding needed. I have tried it on an XP machine and it did exactly the same thing as the windows 7 box. I just cant figure out why you can connect but then nothing loads when you launch to space. It works fine on the LAN but not the WAN.

You can connect to it if you want to test it…its called felix 141.142.222.119 password is felix. its running discovery 4.85 i tried it without any mods and the same thing would happen.

Is there something that gets loaded when you launch to space that could be getting blocked?

I have disabled ipv6 to see if that is the problem.

thanks for the help.

rsabatino

i used to run a server from my house. i had no problem the only thing i can tell you i dont know if you use a router but the computer you run the server on has to be dmz
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demilitarized_zone_(computing)
so everybody can have access to it. but i told you everything that i know other than try adding your ip address here

http://www.flserver.de/

alex61821

Connection is not a problem had a friend from Michigan log into the server and create a toon buy a ship, went to the bar got a mission and then launched into space. He got the red blinking icons as soon as he launched to space on both my windows 7 server and xp server.

there has to be some difference when you launch to space that i am not getting for some reason.

rsabatino

i am at a loss the only thing i think of is server errors . i dont think there is any everything is up to date the latest discovery and everything. thats would problably be the only problem.