[cod] v1.1 setup but can't connect

James Casey - DigitalNetwork Limited james at nucleus.co.nz
Thu Apr 22 00:48:24 EDT 2004


Thanks

That worked perfectly :)

Hey and thanksfor the help as well kernel i didn't try the lan_authorise but i will try that as well thanks all


James
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Orr, Roland Cadet 
  To: cod at icculus.org 
  Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 4:24 PM
  Subject: RE: [cod] v1.1 setup but can't connect


  ahh, I had the exact same problem, James - but i didn't have a firewall.  I doubt the firewall is the issue, so lemme tell you what I did to fix it, and maybe itll work for you.

  It was the most bizzare thing, too, cuz sometimes people could join and sometimes they couldn't.  This is extraneous information, but what I did to figure it out was ran the server with +set developer 1, so that it displayed on the console EVERYTHING that happened.  I found that people could join when codauthorize.activision.com timed out (i.e. when their key wasn't authed), and could not join when the connection was resolved.

  Here's what you wanna know: I had to use the /etc/hosts file to get around the cd key authorization, and I'll let you know how to fix it - but realize that as of 1.2, I no longer have the problem, and I'm pretty sure 1.3 completely fixes it.  If you don't know what the /etc/hosts file is, don't worry cuz ill explain it.

  ya know what, now that I think about it, I have answered this question several times before... lemme get a link to the forum.... <long pause>

  that's odd.. for some reason, www.callofduty.org seems to be down.  I dont wanna go through it all again, so i was gonna give you a link to a thread in the forums on callofduty.org where I answered this question before - but apparently i can't =/

  basically, all you do is open /etc/hosts with the editor of your choice (i use vi), and add a line in ther like this:
  codauthorize.activision.com        127.0.0.1

  what this does is it tells your computer that anytime a program tries to resolve codauthorize.activision.com to an IP address, to use 127.0.0.1.  the IP address 127.0.0.1 is always a loopback IP address, meaning that it points back to your computer (if you're clever, you'll notice that one of the lines in the /etc/hosts file does that!).  In other words, if your IP address is 1.2.3.4, on YOUR computer, 127.0.0.1 is effectively the same as 1.2.3.4.

  why does this work?  well, when the server tries to find codauthorize.activision.com, linux checks your /etc/hosts file, sees that you've told your computer that codauthorize.activision.com is really 127.0.0.1, and then checks port 20500 on your computer to try and authorize the CD keys.  well, obviously your computer is not running the software to auth the CD keys, so the authorization times out, and after a few seconds, the people can join.

  Hope this helps!

   

   From: James Casey - DigitalNetwork Limited [mailto:james at nucleus.co.nz]
  Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2004 11:25 PM
  To: cod at icculus.org
  Subject: Re: [cod] v1.1 setup but can't connect


    Nope still giving me the same error.

    when a user connects it prints out the following to the screen.

    "Resolving codauthorise.activision.com
    codauthorize.activision.co resolved to 63.146.124.59:20500"

    Although the server isn't for the internet the machine is connected to the internet.

    James
      ----- Original Message ----- 
      From: Kernel Error 
      To: cod at icculus.org 
      Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 3:14 PM
      Subject: Re: [cod] v1.1 setup but can't connect


      ok when you start the game are you using 
      +set dedicated 1
      as a command line option?  what it sounds like is that the game is trying to contact activision to authorize the cd key but if the server isn't on the internet it wont be able to.



      ----- Original Message ----- 
      From: "James Casey - DigitalNetwork Limited" <james at nucleus.co.nz>
      To: <cod at icculus.org>
      Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2004 10:10 PM
      Subject: Re: [cod] v1.1 setup but can't connect


      > Only on a lan, i am setting up for testing so that in the end i will be able
      > to setup an internet server, everyone on the lan is using version 1.1
      > 
      > James
      > ----- Original Message ----- 
      > From: "Kernel Error" <kernelerror at hosgonewhack.com>
      > To: <cod at icculus.org>
      > Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 2:59 PM
      > Subject: Re: [cod] v1.1 setup but can't connect
      > 
      > 
      > > Are you only hosting it on the lan or are people connecting to it through
      > > the internet?
      > >
      > > ----- Original Message -----
      > > From: "James Casey - DigitalNetwork Limited" <james at nucleus.co.nz>
      > > To: <cod at icculus.org>
      > > Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2004 9:35 PM
      > > Subject: [cod] v1.1 setup but can't connect
      > >
      > >
      > > > Hi all
      > > >
      > > > This is my first post and this question has probably been answered a
      > > thousad
      > > > times before but i have just setup a linux server v1.1 and it's up and
      > > > running but when people try to connect to it (it's a local server) it
      > says
      > > > awaiting cd key authenitcation, has anyone had this problem and could
      > > point
      > > > me in the right direction i have looked through google but i can't find
      > > > anyone with the same problem.
      > > >
      > > > Thanks in advance
      > > >
      > > > James
      > > >
      > > >
      > > >
      > >
      > >
      > >
      > >
      > 
      > 
      > 
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