HOWTO: Connect to your Public Server, from inside LAN

[GreatSageCorban]

This is a tutorial on how to connect to your Public (Dedicated) Server from another machine inside the same network. This tutorial does not cover anything in regards to your MySQL database, or how to set it up. This tutorial is assuming you've already followed the "general setup and installation" tutorials provided by other forum users.

The reference hardware for this tutorial is as follows:

Dedicated Pentium 4 2.2 Ghz Server (512mb RAM)
Client PC running windows XP
Linksys Router
Time Warner Cable Modem
standard 192.168 LAN addressing

Step1.)
Make sure your server is communicating with eqemulator.net

The easiest way to make sure you

[smogo]

Yup, thanks ! Inderectly solved my problems.

The point was that Windoze does not recognize numeric IPs as host aliases :
192.168.0.101 my.name.net #works
192.168.0.101 80.123.123.123 # doesn't work

[eq_addict_08]

Ya, modified HOST file on windoze box held me back from my server for a bit. Rest is pretty much just general server setup stuff. dyndns and others can issue domain names to you..

[GreatSageCorban]

the host file must have an IP in the first part, and an actual text DNS name in the second part. You can't point an IP to an IP. what this basically does is tell the world what your external IP is through the DNS name, while your PC see's the internal IP through the host file.

[lordaltay2]

I read this over and I got to the hosts part.. I did the Tracet ip thing in CMD, but It said Unable to resolve. So what do i put as the DNS in the HOSTS file, and the DNS in the Boot 5 zones thing?!