Cheat Engine

iPromise · Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2010 12:36 am Post subject: Some help please and thank you

Okay I successfully made a multi-chat room where any body can join, that is, only if its local host. When I set everything to localhost it works like a charm, but whenever I put my own external ip address, turn off my firewall, forward the port i'm connecting too, and try to connect to myself the bind() fails, change the external ip back to localhost, works normal. Any ideas?

Flyte · Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2010 1:47 am Post subject:

As you were told a few times before, you don't bind to your external IP.

atom0s · Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2010 10:36 am Post subject:

You only need to bind to your external IP if you have nothing sitting between you and your modem. Meaning your modem is directly assigning its IP to your system.

If you have a router, you will need to bind to the address your routers DHCP table has given your system then forward the port on the router. (That is.. if you have DHCP on the router turned on. If not bind to the static address you set yourself.)

iPromise · Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2010 4:54 pm Post subject:

@Wiccan, thanks.

So bind to the address that the DHCP table gave to my system, and port forward a port to that address, got it!

AhMunRa · Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2010 5:58 pm Post subject:

Or better yet just specify that computer to have a constant IP, this will eliminate the chance that the IP on that box gets set to a different IP than you expect.

Dark Byte · Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2010 7:11 pm Post subject:

not sure if this is even related (sleepy) but try binding 0.0.0.0