No Aids Racing

last night matchmaking was down and limpy joined my server using IP adress. later the service was back but i cant seem to pass the firewall test any more.
after several reboots i decided to overwrite my c: drive with norton ghost to be sure my system was configured to host but that also didnt work.
ive uninstalled the firewall and windows firewall is inactive. still no good.
contacting my profider and they dont support these kind of problems but i think i ruled out all options to change things locally. maybe anyone of you wizzkids know whats happening and have some advice. i am totally in the dark now.
Thx in advance

What is your IP address? Maybe your provider has started blocking ports.

/Daniel

Hello Klaaz

That happened to me a couple of months back. Something changed and it had nothing to do with my firewall or router it was something in RF I do not know what it was but I had to uninstall and reinstall rf to clear the problem.
It seemed to coinside with the last time racecast went down.

Hitman

DanTheMan wrote:What is your IP address? Maybe your provider has started blocking ports.

/Daniel

it should be a dynamic ip but since i know where to find,
it it always has been 217.123.2.67 unless i restart modem when i have problems.

Hitman wrote:Hello Klaaz

That happened to me a couple of months back. Something changed and it had nothing to do with my firewall or router it was something in RF I do not know what it was but I had to uninstall and reinstall rf to clear the problem.
It seemed to coinside with the last time racecast went down.

Hitman

i have tryed reinstalling,after that overwriting my c: drive to a config that has always worked.

this must be provider or modem causing this, damn i might aswel take another provider with a routermodem

klaaz wrote:it should be a dynamic ip but since i know where to find,
it it always has been 217.123.2.67 unless i restart modem when i have problems.

It is very common for internet providers to simply let the DHCP server do its normal thing, and that usually results in users keeping their IP for as long as their MAC address doesn't change. (But some providers tweak their DHCP servers to constantly hand out new IPs. Not sure what good this does when services like No-IP and DynDNS works as good as they do.)

I ran a portscan against that IP using 'nmap -sV', and this is the result I got:

PORT STATE SERVICE VERSION
25/tcp filtered smtp
67/tcp filtered dhcps
68/tcp filtered dhcpc
119/tcp filtered nntp
135/tcp filtered msrpc
137/tcp filtered netbios-ns
138/tcp filtered netbios-dgm
139/tcp filtered netbios-ssn
445/tcp filtered microsoft-ds
1025/tcp open msrpc Microsoft Windows RPC
1080/tcp filtered socks
3128/tcp filtered squid-http
5000/tcp open upnp Microsoft Windows UPnP
8080/tcp filtered http-proxy
Service Info: OS: Windows


It doesn't look like there are any firewalls in the way. The next thing to test is for you to start up your rFactor server so that I can scan the ports it uses.

/Daniel

thx alot.
i ll stop messing around locally and fire up server. i need to mention i ve just overwritten c: .the system you scanned was a pretty basic xp with no firewall, but this ghostfile with sygate firewall is configured to host sessions and always has worked.

drago got in!!!!yippie
thx alot for the help
not sure what fixed it but i suspect my isp

still the hosting test all fail but server seems open for all. somebody shoot me......

Doesn't the hosting test use different ports from the real ones? (+/- 1 on the port numbers, not sure) I think I've read that somewhere a long time ago. Could be a problem if you open only the specific ports required to race instead of a bigger range...