OK Update!
After doing some heavy searching on the internet. I have learned a few things I just want to confirm with the community!
When Port Forwarding.
After applying the proper forwards in the router(i.e 5998.99 +7000-7100+9000) In order for you to ping the port and actually receive the open signal, a program has to be listening on your side. In this case the server.
The best description I came across was this.
"You live in an apartment building with 1000 different apartments. All the apartments use the same street address (IP address). In order for visitors to get to the right person (service), they need to know the apartment number (port).
Now a reporter comes to the apartment building wanting to talk to the person living in apartment 80, but the doorman (firewall) stops them from coming into the apartment building. The reporter writes that they were unable to speak to the person in apartment 80 (could not establish a connection).
The resident of apartment 80 tells the doorman to allow all reporters to come visit him (forward a port). The next time the reporter comes, the doorman allows him into the building. The reporter knocks on the door of apartment 80... but the resident is not at home (application not running). The reporter again writes that they were unable to speak to the person in apartment 80 (could not establish a connection)." -Thanks to muiredised on
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r210...help-~start=20.
So after having launched the server I am now receiving and Open signal on port 9000! Great right? I dunno... because i'm unsure of a few of these ports and their functions. So I am going to ask you to clarify.
When launching the server from my understanding this is how it works.
The server connects to eqemu via port 5998 and or 5999, right? So the .xml file is not telling the server to listen for a ping on that port. So of course
http://www.canyouseeme.org/ is going to tell me a connection is refused on either 5998 or 5999 right, because my application (server) is not listening there. The server is only using those two ports to tell eqemu that "I am there".
Ports 7000-7100 Are on the same status, just sent to localhost instead of eqemu (i.e Someone wants to zone into Gfay so the server says lets send that client through port 7006, so the World.exe is talking with zone.exe?? and just doing a through-hole loop there, with no information being sent to the client(player) or eqemu. Right?
Port 9000- The one and only port I am currently getting an open signal from, This is because when someone clicks to connect to my server, My server is only listening for a connection on that port and eqemu knows im there because of port 5998/99. That single port services all connections, so if that is true how those ports work, there should be no hassle in trying to connect to the server from outside the network.
Well at this point and time, I have the server up and unlocked anxiously awaiting for someone to attempt to connect. So i can find out if it works, and if not receive the log file.
A side note, in cmd I ran 'netstat -a' to hopefully see everything that my network was connecting to and from, as far as ports. Here is what I saw
Microsoft Windows [Version 6.0.6001]
Copyright (c) 2006 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
C:\Users\Nick>netstat -a
Active Connections
Proto Local Address Foreign Address State
TCP 0.0.0.0:135 Nick-PC:0 LISTENING
TCP 0.0.0.0:445 Nick-PC:0 LISTENING
TCP 0.0.0.0:554 Nick-PC:0 LISTENING
TCP 0.0.0.0:2869 Nick-PC:0 LISTENING
TCP 0.0.0.0:3306 Nick-PC:0 LISTENING
TCP 0.0.0.0:5357 Nick-PC:0 LISTENING
TCP 0.0.0.0:9000 Nick-PC:0 LISTENING
TCP 0.0.0.0:10243 Nick-PC:0 LISTENING
TCP 0.0.0.0:49152 Nick-PC:0 LISTENING
TCP 0.0.0.0:49153 Nick-PC:0 LISTENING
TCP 0.0.0.0:49154 Nick-PC:0 LISTENING
TCP 0.0.0.0:49155 Nick-PC:0 LISTENING
TCP 0.0.0.0:49156 Nick-PC:0 LISTENING
TCP 0.0.0.0:49157 Nick-PC:0 LISTENING
TCP 0.0.0.0:49217 Nick-PC:0 LISTENING
TCP 127.0.0.1:2559 Nick-PC:0 LISTENING
TCP 127.0.0.1:3306 Nick-PC:60875 ESTABLISHED
TCP 127.0.0.1:3306 Nick-PC:61001 ESTABLISHED
TCP 127.0.0.1:3306 Nick-PC:61161 ESTABLISHED
TCP 127.0.0.1:3306 Nick-PC:61179 ESTABLISHED
TCP 127.0.0.1:3306 Nick-PC:61197 ESTABLISHED
TCP 127.0.0.1:3306 Nick-PC:61215 ESTABLISHED
TCP 127.0.0.1:9000 Nick-PC:60960 ESTABLISHED
TCP 127.0.0.1:9000 Nick-PC:61042 ESTABLISHED
TCP 127.0.0.1:9000 Nick-PC:61164 ESTABLISHED
TCP 127.0.0.1:9000 Nick-PC:61182 ESTABLISHED
TCP 127.0.0.1:9000 Nick-PC:61200 ESTABLISHED
TCP 127.0.0.1:9000 Nick-PC:61218 ESTABLISHED
TCP 127.0.0.1:10501 Nick-PC:0 LISTENING
TCP 127.0.0.1:10501 Nick-PC:62114 ESTABLISHED
TCP 127.0.0.1:10502 Nick-PC:0 LISTENING
TCP 127.0.0.1:10502 Nick-PC:62115 ESTABLISHED
TCP 127.0.0.1:58338 Nick-PC:22588 SYN_SENT
TCP 127.0.0.1:58339 Nick-PC:25951 SYN_SENT
TCP 127.0.0.1:58340 Nick-PC:25951 SYN_SENT
TCP 127.0.0.1:58341 Nick-PC:12583 SYN_SENT
TCP 127.0.0.1:58342 Nick-PC:15391 SYN_SENT
TCP 127.0.0.1:58343 Nick-PC:25951 SYN_SENT
TCP 127.0.0.1:58344 Nick-PC:12583 SYN_SENT
TCP 127.0.0.1:58345 Nick-PC:15391 SYN_SENT
TCP 127.0.0.1:58346 Nick-PC:10516 SYN_SENT
TCP 127.0.0.1:58347 Nick-PC:10516 SYN_SENT
TCP 127.0.0.1:60875 Nick-PC:3306 ESTABLISHED
TCP 127.0.0.1:60960 Nick-PC:9000 ESTABLISHED
TCP 127.0.0.1:61001 Nick-PC:3306 ESTABLISHED
TCP 127.0.0.1:61042 Nick-PC:9000 ESTABLISHED
TCP 127.0.0.1:61161 Nick-PC:3306 ESTABLISHED
TCP 127.0.0.1:61164 Nick-PC:9000 ESTABLISHED
TCP 127.0.0.1:61179 Nick-PC:3306 ESTABLISHED
TCP 127.0.0.1:61182 Nick-PC:9000 ESTABLISHED
TCP 127.0.0.1:61197 Nick-PC:3306 ESTABLISHED
TCP 127.0.0.1:61200 Nick-PC:9000 ESTABLISHED
TCP 127.0.0.1:61215 Nick-PC:3306 ESTABLISHED
TCP 127.0.0.1:61218 Nick-PC:9000 ESTABLISHED
TCP 127.0.0.1:62114 Nick-PC:10501 ESTABLISHED
TCP 127.0.0.1:62115 Nick-PC:10502 ESTABLISHED
TCP 192.168.1.X:139 Nick-PC:0 LISTENING
TCP 192.168.1.X:56936 ord08s07-in-f3:http ESTABLISHED
TCP 192.168.1.X:57359 ord08s07-in-f0:http ESTABLISHED
TCP 192.168.1.X:57360 ord08s07-in-f25:http ESTABLISHED
TCP 192.168.1.X:57362 ord08s07-in-f26:http ESTABLISHED
TCP 192.168.1.X:57363 ord08s07-in-f26:http ESTABLISHED
TCP 192.168.1.X:57364 ord08s07-in-f26:http ESTABLISHED
TCP 192.168.1.X:57365 64.208.126.35:http TIME_WAIT
TCP 192.168.1.X:57366 64.208.126.35:http TIME_WAIT
TCP 192.168.1.X:57367 64.208.126.35:http TIME_WAIT
TCP 192.168.1.X:57388 event:http TIME_WAIT
TCP 192.168.1.X:57389 event:http TIME_WAIT
TCP 192.168.1.X:57393 173.225.27.80:http TIME_WAIT
TCP 192.168.1.X:57394 173.225.27.80:http TIME_WAIT
TCP 192.168.1.X:57395 64.208.126.74:http TIME_WAIT
TCP 192.168.1.X:57396 64.208.126.74:http TIME_WAIT
TCP 192.168.1.X:57397 64.208.126.74:http TIME_WAIT
TCP 192.168.1.X:57398 media:http TIME_WAIT
TCP 192.168.1.X:57399 media:http TIME_WAIT
TCP 192.168.1.X:57400 media:http TIME_WAIT
TCP 192.168.1.X:57403 ord08s07-in-f27:http ESTABLISHED
TCP 192.168.1.X:57410 ord08s07-in-f27:http TIME_WAIT
TCP 192.168.1.X:57413 cds98:http TIME_WAIT
TCP 192.168.1.X:57414 cds98:http TIME_WAIT
TCP 192.168.1.X:57415 cds98:http TIME_WAIT
TCP 192.168.1.X:57416 ord08s07-in-f25:http ESTABLISHED
TCP 192.168.1.X:57474 174-143-26-240:http TIME_WAIT
TCP 192.168.1.X:57475 174-143-26-240:http TIME_WAIT
TCP 192.168.1.X:60927 eqemulator:5998 ESTABLISHED
TCP [::]:135 Nick-PC:0 LISTENING
TCP [::]:445 Nick-PC:0 LISTENING
TCP [::]:554 Nick-PC:0 LISTENING
TCP [::]:2869 Nick-PC:0 LISTENING
TCP [::]:5357 Nick-PC:0 LISTENING
TCP [::]:10243 Nick-PC:0 LISTENING
TCP [::]:49152 Nick-PC:0 LISTENING
TCP [::]:49153 Nick-PC:0 LISTENING
TCP [::]:49154 Nick-PC:0 LISTENING
TCP [::]:49155 Nick-PC:0 LISTENING
TCP [::]:49156 Nick-PC:0 LISTENING
TCP [::]:49157 Nick-PC:0 LISTENING
TCP [::]:49217 Nick-PC:0 LISTENING
UDP 0.0.0.0:123 *:*
UDP 0.0.0.0:427 *:*
UDP 0.0.0.0:500 *:*
UDP 0.0.0.0:3702 *:*
UDP 0.0.0.0:3702 *:*
UDP 0.0.0.0:3702 *:*
UDP 0.0.0.0:3702 *:*
UDP 0.0.0.0:4500 *:*
UDP 0.0.0.0:5004 *:*
UDP 0.0.0.0:5005 *:*
UDP 0.0.0.0:5355 *:*
UDP 0.0.0.0:7000 *:*
UDP 0.0.0.0:7001 *:*
UDP 0.0.0.0:7002 *:*
UDP 0.0.0.0:7003 *:*
UDP 0.0.0.0:7004 *:*
UDP 0.0.0.0:9000 *:*
UDP 0.0.0.0:51462 *:*
UDP 0.0.0.0:53581 *:*
UDP 0.0.0.0:63210 *:*
UDP 127.0.0.1:1900 *:*
UDP 127.0.0.1:48000 *:*
UDP 127.0.0.1:48001 *:*
UDP 127.0.0.1:53180 *:*
UDP 127.0.0.1:55228 *:*
UDP 127.0.0.1:56096 *:*
UDP 127.0.0.1:56154 *:*
UDP 127.0.0.1:64299 *:*
UDP 127.0.0.1:64349 *:*
UDP 192.168.1.2:137 *:*
UDP 192.168.1.2:138 *:*
UDP 192.168.1.2:427 *:*
UDP 192.168.1.2:1900 *:*
UDP 192.168.1.2:55227 *:*
UDP [::]:123 *:*
UDP [::]:500 *:*
UDP [::]:3702 *:*
UDP [::]:3702 *:*
UDP [::]:3702 *:*
UDP [::]:3702 *:*
UDP [::]:5004 *:*
UDP [::]:5005 *:*
UDP [::]:5355 *:*
UDP [::]:51463 *:*
UDP [::]:53582 *:*
UDP [::1]:1900 *:*
UDP [::1]:55225 *:*
UDP [fe80::ffff:ffff:fffe%9]:1900 *:*
UDP [fe80::ffff:ffff:fffe%9]:55226 *:*
UDP [fe80::d9bf:68bf:d502:9684%8]:1900 *:*
UDP [fe80::d9bf:68bf:d502:9684%8]:55224 *:*