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Originally Posted by Zeitgeist
borg have you tried port forwarding and giving someone the ip?
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This whole network thing has always always driven me buggy.
The other day I fired my firewall server cause I thought it was faulty by not allowing my nonLinux on as Internet accessible.
I go out and spend $199 on XP to set up my own firewall server and then yesterday morning I discovered that heck my server was on the Internet afterall and the login server was having a fun time adding an account to mysql.
Then I still believe that a user "tyco" got on my system -- if so then at that time it must have been publicly available. Had I known that I could have saved the $199 and just focus on why Windows was being so bitchy to me.
So now I have closed the hole -- or I believe so. This afternoon or later -- depends on my mood-- I am going to start all over again with a new database. This time through i don't expect the login server to get to my database because I have closed the door. If it can still get through -- then I give up completely.
As for creating a semi-private net that allows users on the Internet to access it but it is not connected to the gotfrags-- I don't believe you can do that with any network trick.
The login server has a protocol that it is following and hopefully only talking to the client (eqgame.exe). But it is opening doors for SoL and getting everything in place so that the world server and zone servers do the right thing.
So I am using the login server as a key and that's all. It's a big fat key and my system is 100% secure from it.
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