getting the client to connect to my server

Ok, I downloaded the latest version of the gserver. Followed the steps in the readme.txt file. Forwarded the ports on my router, for that matter I put my server machine on the DMZ. And it still won’t work. When I run the server it it says it started up ok, and when I run the client it shows my server in the server list, but when I click connect it says “the connection couldn’t be established”. Any ideas?

Edit: oh, and I forgot to mention, I tried connecting to other people's servers and that worked just fine, it's only my server that seems to have the problem.

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Does it instantly say 'Connection cannot be established'?
This means its getting the wrong IP, which means you put myip=AUTO back.

If it waits about 4 seconds and hangs, this means your port is not open.
A firewall may be blocking incoming connections for the GServer, or you still haven't port forwarded. Or you may be trying to port forward on a DSL Router, in which case the tutorial explains they are total shit and that you'll need an actual Router to bypass it.

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It hangs right away, so you say it’s the ip address, but I have it set “myip = AUTO” in the serveroptions.txt and it still won’t work. I even tried going to whatismyip.com and putting that in there so there could be no confusion and it still doesn’t work.

The router I’m using was given to me by my verizon dsl ISP but I have hosted other game servers with no problems. I have my desktop in the “DMZ” which means that everything by default comes to this computer.

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Actually, I have the same issue when I try to connect to Waffles3… what does this mean? Who owns that server?

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ok, I can connect to waffles3 fine now. But I still can’t connect to my server. It says it couldn’t connect right away. So you think it’s my IP address? But the thing is, I have that line “myip = AUTO” in the configuration file. Any other ideas?

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I meant if it gives the error right away, it means its going to the wrong IP.
It it just hangs a while before giving the error message, its the right port but it cannot connect on that port. Ie: You're not forwarded/open.

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ok, so since the error message comes up right away, that means that it has the wrong ip address. Why would that be? In the server config file I have that line that says “myip = AUTO” which is what I need to have it work right? I don’t understand why I would be having this problem. Should I statically put in what my ipaddress is into that file?

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ok, so since the error message comes up right away, that means that it has the wrong ip address. Why would that be? In the server config file I have that line that says “myip = AUTO” which is what I need to have it work right? I don't understand why I would be having this problem. Should I statically put in what my ipaddress is into that file?
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Could try. www.ipchicken.com

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ok, so that didn't work either. But I was looking in the log files and found this:
[01/06/08 16:53:45] New player: opshon
[01/06/08 16:58:36] New player: Urza
[01/06/08 16:58:38] New player: Urza
[01/06/08 16:58:44] New player: Beholder
[01/06/08 16:58:47] New player: Beholder
[01/06/08 17:05:39] New player: Urza
[01/06/08 17:05:41] New player: Urza
[01/06/08 17:21:42] New player: Urza
[01/06/08 17:21:44] New player: Urza
[01/06/08 17:41:10] New player: Storm
[01/06/08 19:11:51] New player: Spooon

can other people connect to my server? It’s “Traddles’ Server” for now.

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Yeah, Works fine.

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That's weird. so other people can connect to my server, but I cannot… what on earth does that mean?!

Edit: I did a little experimenting. I connected with a different machine that was connected to a neighbors access point and was able to connect to my server. So does anybody out there have a server set up behind a router who is also able to connect to the server from behind that router?

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thanks nalin, that makes perfect sense. Actually I have a dyndns.org account already set up for some things I was doing in the past, excellent service that.

I'm not sure how to set up my router to re-direct all outgoing requests for ______ to ______ though, what is that setting typically called, or what is it called on your router?

Edit: Nevermind, I did kind of a combination of what you suggested. I told my server to set myip=traddles.gotdns.com. Then in my hosts file I added the line 192.168.1.21 traddles.gotdns.com (where 192.168.1.21 is the lan ip address of the server box).

Thanks again for your help Nalin