www.dyndns.com Dynamic DNS through Router

[Thothie]

So... I finally broke down and hooked up this stupid router so I could move the stupid cpu hogging HLDS to my stupid laptop.... stupid.

Seems now my thothie.game-host.org:27017 won't work. Even if I modify/update it with my new (true http://www.whatismyip.org) IP, it will not forward to my server via Steam. (I acquired the DNS from http://www.dyndns.com)

Anyone wanna help me with this? Or should I just unhook the router and give up having this on a seperate box?

 

[Kuroneko]

So... I finally broke down and hooked up this stupid router so I could move the stupid cpu hogging HLDS to my stupid laptop.... stupid.

Seems now my thothie.game-host.org:27017 won't work. Even if I modify/update it with my new (true http://www.whatismyip.org) IP, it will not forward to my server via Steam. (I acquired the DNS from http://www.dyndns.com)

Anyone wanna help me with this? Or should I just unhook the router and give up having this on a seperate box?

Does the DNS resolve correctly?

Is the firewall setup correctly?

 

[Thothie]

Blah... Sadly, I'm not sure of either, which is why I gave up using this thing so long ago - I HATE hardware firewalls.

I dont even have a section in the web-based configuration for the router called "firewall", the closest I have is Packet Filters... All of which are off.

I've got the address at dyndns set to the same address found at whatismyip... I can ping thothie.game-host.org just fine... But it wont add to favorites on Steam, nor can I use connect to go to it

I *can* connect to my own server, but no one else has yet - dunno if anyone else can see it. (Edit: NVM, other people can see it - although Im sure they can't find it in their favorites)

Wait...

WTF... If I add "thothie.game-host.org:61381" I can see it (grabbed that number from the steam browser)... whaaa? Is it forwarding my 27017 port to 61381 for some reason? ><

edit: Blah, I tried the mess with the port forwarding and the router locked up while updating - I had to turn it off and reset it.

 

[Thothie]

Okay... After bashing my head into it for an hour, I got it to work. TY Lord K for the link helps... God I've not felt so n00bish in so long. Routers = t3h 3vil.

 

[Rauell]

they arent THAt hard

 

[HomestarR]

I just set the computer I want to host on as dmz. Risky? Maybe. But it is the easiest way to deal with router firewalls.

 

[Kuroneko]

I just set the computer I want to host on as dmz. Risky? Maybe. But it is the easiest way to deal with router firewalls.

Thats so wasteful. Can't have any other unit host anything then.

 

[HomestarR]

That isn't a problem for me, only got one PC that needs to host. (and I rarely need to host in the first place)