My server is shutting down

King of Jumping · Post by **King of Jumping** » August 11th, 2005, 3:32 am

Everytime i play in my host server, someone trys to join and the connection just goes connecting 1....2...3....4.. y it do that? thanks guys

King of Jumping

MuRpHy* · Post by MuRpHy* » August 11th, 2005, 3:36 am

well are you behind a router? or do you have a static ip? if you are behind a router, its very hard to host a server and if you dont have a static ip noone will be able to join your server either

so look into that and that might be the problem

King of Jumping · Post by **King of Jumping** » August 11th, 2005, 3:39 am

i have a router, but what is a static ip that you talk about???? please help i want to host!

Neon · Post by **Neon** » August 11th, 2005, 7:28 am

if ur just clicking on "start new server" i think tht just makes a LAN game... im unsure how to get ur static i.p :S

leveller · Post by **leveller** » August 11th, 2005, 6:09 pm

Try this link, its a good tutorial on how to set up a server behind a router or firewall

http://www.olddogvt.net/cod-firewall/

Luke · Post by **Luke** » August 13th, 2005, 1:50 am

well a static ip just means it doesnt change, and thats optional at an extra cost for alot of isp's.. a dynamic ip is the most common which will change every so often, and that is what i've got, but either way you can still host your own server.
for others to join you will have to give them your public ip(not the internal 192.blahblah ip, thats only for u and anyone on your network to join), one way to find out your public ip is to go to http://www.whatismyip.com, and if you're on a router with nat enabled (network address translation) which is a common form of firewall for routers then you will have to open the necessary ports used for the game as mentioned in the other posts

MuRpHy* · Post by MuRpHy* » August 13th, 2005, 1:51 am

Luke wrote:well a static ip just means it doesnt change, and thats optional at an extra cost for alot of isp's.. a dynamic ip is the most common which will change every so often, and that is what i've got, but either way you can still host your own server.
for others to join you will have to give them your public ip(not the internal 192.blahblah ip, thats only for u and anyone on your network to join), one way to find out your public ip is to go to http://www.whatismyip.com, and if you're on a router with nat enabled (network address translation) which is a common form of firewall for routers then you will have to open the necessary ports used for the game as mentioned in the other posts

well explained, where is our friend king of jumping anyways