Problems with NAT (Multihomed) and COD

Sun Dec 28 10:29:22 EST 2003

All,

A little time ago i had dropped this problem here, but there was no strait answer to solve it. Now i tried by Activision to see if they had a solution for this problem, but see below still no luck. I'm getting desperate, is there a programmer here that worked on the linux binary??? And is it possible (if he is here) to discus this with me???

Just to let you know here is a little drawing i made of my home network. See attached.

Regards

Quint

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      Response (Kirk McNesby) 12/26/2003 09:15 AM  
      Hi,

      The fan community is your best bet at this point, since what you are doing is unsupported. Sorry we were unable to help you further. 

       Customer 12/26/2003 04:41 AM  
      Dear Reader,

      Where could i get this kind of information then, i enjoy the game, but in this way a can't join my own server.

      Regards
      Quint 

       Customer 12/26/2003 04:40 AM  
      See the site i have update it. 

       Response (Nick Bee) 12/25/2003 03:58 PM  
      Hi,

      Unfortunately, Activision only provides support for in-game menu options. We are also a publisher, not a developer. We do not have any information for advanced server configurations.

      We also do not provide setups for modified network stacks. We do not design or test our games for passive IP connections. 

       Customer 12/25/2003 10:07 AM  
      Dear Anthony,

      Sorry for the late response, but I was in deep debug to give you more information.

      You said go to 

      www.codadmin.com
      www.callofduty.org
      www.codfiles.co

      I did already before I mailed you, also I am an active user in icculus.org this group made also Mohaa linux. All the groups I talked to gave me some hints, I tried out. Here my debug information below. I hope you can answer these questions.

      I am sending you a picture of my network at home. A little background of my knowledge, I am a network/security advisor, and work at a large bank community in the Netherlands.

      Here my debug information.

      after i put it up and try to connect from my lan machine to the server i get awaiting cd key authorization. I read on www.codadmin.com that you have to put a redirect in your host file like this
      10.5.1.2 codauthorize.activision.com

      After i did this it worked like a charm but i am not showing up in either ASE or Gamespy or inside the game. Now i read on this forum that when you block this Actvision is blocking you on gamespy etc. So i removed it and i can see that i get more connections now in my logfile

      SV packet 212.4.59.227:28960 : getinfo
      SV packet 217.187.228.176:28960 : getinfo
      SV packet 66.171.20.41:28960 : getinfo
      SV packet 81.50.168.236:28960 : getinfo
      SV packet 213.7.84.188:28960 : getinfo
      SV packet 80.130.183.223:28960 : getinfo
      SV packet 62.15.142.49:6956 : getinfo
      SV packet 62.181.213.155:28960 : getinfo
      SV packet 194.255.159.186:-496 : getinfo
      SV packet 67.163.174.179:28960 : getinfo
      SV packet 80.142.139.40:14529 : getinfo
      SV packet 213.89.220.43:-1909 : getinfo
      SV packet 80.135.182.47:28960 : getinfo
      SV packet 81.189.29.89:28960 : getinfo

      And it goes on and on. When i put the block again i only see this 1 or 2 times in 15 minutes.

      I also see that the logfile is saying 

      sending getIpAuthorize for 10.5.1.123:28960

      I understand that this won't work becuase this is a private range and Activision can't registrate my CDKEY.

      Now I tried after you told me not to support the linux server a windows server in the same network setup, but this gives me the same result.

      What I did then was put the linux environment back and to a tcpdump on my network to see how the packets are send etc.

      I saw in the packets that my translation doesn't work to my external address this way both servers are trying to AUTH my internal address.

      I tried the to see if I could make a loop to my external address, tried proxy port forward etc. etc. but no luck still (because my ip isn't NAT) it is trying to AUTH my internal ip. This due to that my server is seeing that the external ip is local on my server and isn't putting it to NAT.

      I mailed this to icculus.org but nobody knows a solution. In my eyes this is coming due to the fact that the server is resolving my ip sends it to the AUTH server this one Is trying to connect to my client to try to AUTH my CD-KEY.

      Can't this changed from this one to server is giving me a push to Activision AUTH server where I registrate my CD-Key and when this is done the AUTH server is giving the COD servers an ok.

      Please help me, I'm now more debugging then enjoying the game.:-(

      Regards
      Quint 

       Response (Anthony Lu) 12/18/2003 09:24 AM  
      Hi,

      Unfortunately, we do not provide support for the Linux server. For assistance with setting up or running a Linux server, your best bet is to look on the Internet at sites like:

      www.codadmin.com
      www.callofduty.org
      www.codfiles.com

      If you have any problems or questions in the future, please feel free to email us. 

       Auto-Response (Anthony Lu) 12/18/2003 05:24 AM  
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       Customer 12/18/2003 05:24 AM  
      Dear Reader,

      I have a question about a COD server and NAT. I have a dedicated COD server running on a linux enviroment, but when a connect from inside my lan to the linux box i see in the log file that my cd-key is tried to be registered with my internal LAN network adress. I talked to a lot of guys in mailing groups like www.codadmin.com etc. but these guys say it is not possile to connect to the server like this. I have also a mohaa server running and this one works. The guys in the mailing group are saying that the client should be patched, is this true or do you know how to help me.

      Regards
      Quint 

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