| CharlesShoults |
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| 06/22/07 08:54 AM |
| 64.47.54.5 |
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Re: New game in development - Battletech Live
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Adventures in Tech Support.
In my professional life, I'm a Sr. Systems Administrator and do all sorts of nifty things with Mac- and Linux-based systems. We just built a redundant server system that serves as a load balancer, DNS, web and MySql server, costing us about $48,000 and housing around 3.5TB. My home system is much more modest and I'm quicky learning the limitations of off-the-shelf routers. If anyone out there knows how to easily resolve the following issue, please chime in...
I have 2 Wired and 2 Wireless systems behind a Linksys WRT54G V1 router. My ISP (Qwest) provides a dynamic IP, which is stored in the router, passing through a bridged DSL modem. The Linksys has a cool feature of being able to set it up with www.dyndns.org. It logs into my online account and passes my current IP address to dyndns so that when you go to http://charlesshoults.dyndns.org, it forwards you to my router. The router then recognizes requests coming from port 80 and forwards it to my home server, feeding web pages correctly. So far, so good. Everything works perfect as long as the user is outside my local network. The problems start when someone within my network tries to access pages, either using a browser or with the Battletech Live application.
If I log into my server itself, I can simply type http://localhost into the browser and it displays pages correctly. If I'm on another system, I can enter the IP address of the server (x.x.x.102) . All of that works as a usable browser workaround but the problem starts with the update server within Visual Studio. When you create an application, you can specify that upon launch, it should check a specific location for updated files, in which I specified http://charlesshoults.dyndns.org/setup. Works perfectly as long as the user is outside the local network, but if trying to perform the update within my network, it fails because the router can't resolve the address. I spent about 30 minutes online with Linksys support and they were unable to resolve the issue. I need a router in which you can specify URL redirects so that when someone on the LAN tries to access the specific website, the router knows that the page in question is local and therefore sends the request to the local server instead of sending the request out to the WAN side and out to the Internet.
Either that, or I get to find another grungy Dell and build my own linux-based router.