Hello,

Thank you SO MUCH for creating these guides, they have helped me immensely.

I have come across a problem that refuses to go away. I'm trying to make my private server public and I only reach failure.

My DNS address is thenunsofvoarcraft.dyndns.tv
I have edited the realmlist table in the realmd database to reflect this.
I have edited the hosts file to say the following:
127.0.0.1 localhost
192.168.1.205 thenunsofvoarcraft.dyndns.tv

I have ports 3724 and 8085 forwarded on my router, and after testing the utorrent connection, they run perfectly.
My realmlist.wtf file reads "set realmlist thenunsofvoarcraft.dyndns.tv"

And no matter what I do, I get the same error message: "Unable to connect to realm list server".

I have tried changing IP addresses in the Hosts file. I have tried putting my router in DMZ. Nothing has worked. I have reviewed these guides, among other guides, time and time again and I'm continually met with failure.

What exactly am I doing wrong? Please feel free to e-mail me at tehleslie@gmail.com. I am literally at my wit's end as I have followed these guides to the letter, and I still cannot get it to work.

two things....one....how to do edit the C:\WINDOWS\system32\drives\etc\hosts????

and two....no matter what i do i cannot connect to the server no matter when IP or DSN i put it it wont let me connect......i dont know what im doing wrong.....but a good ventrillo chat or msn chat would be nice.....or an answer here would be nice....i dont care lol...ill take all the help i can get at this point......add me on MSN if u have any clue as to what im doing wrong

Kaz3Jr@yahoo.com
(the K and J are Cap's)

thanks

I'm all up and running locally but having a few issues opening my ports, router is all set correctly. I think it's down to the fact I'm running DHCP which might be the case for lots of others too. I'm going to set up the static IP tonight and fingers crossed that should open up ports 3724 & 8085.

Hey, I keep getting this error:

Database: applesaregreatonwow.no-ip.biz;3306;root;xxxx;realmd could not connect to MySQL database at applesaregreatonwow.no-ip.biz: Can't connect to MySQL server on 'applesaregreatonwow.no-ip.biz' (10060)

Cannot connect to database

I have tried using 127.0.0.1 just for me to connect and it works till I get to the character selection screen then it kicks me out back to the realm list.

If anyone can help me with this please do, been having a time getting this going.

Never mind, got a new modem.

Got it working.

*** FOR ANYONE WANTING TO HAVE PEOPLE CONNECTING VIA LAN AND ALSO OVER THE INTERNET AT THE SAME TIME ***

The problem I had if you can read my above post was not setting the HOST file on each computer on the LAN.

What you need to do is on each LAN computer inside the WOW directory, setup the REALMLIST.WTF file to your DNS host name.

Example, Set Realmlist server.no-ip.info

Then setup the HOST file on each individual LAN PC as follows:

Mangos server IP (The hosting LAN PC) server.no-ip.info

Example 192.168.1.2 server.no-ip.info

Now I can log in locally on any computer on my LAN and my friends can play over the internet at the same time.

I don't know how to set my modem up to port foward?

Apparently it cannot from the research I've done.

I have read through all these posts but I still have not seen a fix for a number of people who have asked this question.

Public server over the internet working fine. Friends can log in outside the network. I can log in using the host PC on my internal network, BUT no one else in my internal network can connect. It just gets stuck at the realm screen.

All outside computers are using the DNS I setup at no-ip.com and work fine.

My Realmlist on the host computer setup as 127.0.0.1 working fine and I can play with my friends.

All other computers on my internal network, no matter what I set the realmlist.wtf file to on the computers (the internal hosts ip address or the DNS address) it will let them log in but it won't get past the real selection screen. Stays in a loop.

How to fix this????

@amethyst

if you dont have a router then u'll have no problem with the ports.

port forwarding is only to allow specific ports through the firewall.

*forward

I have Motorola modem SB5100. I did some research on it, and apparently it can't foward ports. Am I screwed?

Hey I have been trying this and it all goes fine except I get
ERROR 1049 t line 1: Unknown database 'realmdmod'
I have it as realmd and tbh no idea where this mod came in on the end. Any ideas?

Ok guys lets see if you can help me

i just made my server public but now i cant connect, im just wondering what do i set the realmlist to on the host PC.

also i have it sort of working as a public server, i test it on my laptop over the internet and i can connect but it then comes up with "Unable to connect to realm list server"

any ideas why this is and how i could fix it would be much helpfull

umm hi

my public server is up and running, and my friend was able to join successfully, but there's one problem: he can use all the gm commands i can, with the exception of the .additem. I gave him gm level 5, same as me, but he can't add anything to his inventory with that command. It's giving him the invalid id error message. Any ideas why?