Hostname used for servers

[carmine fable]

I am trying to host a server for me and my friend, but I cant join myself, because my router blocks dns loopback. This shouldnt be a problem, because I can set exeptions for the dns-rebind protection in my router, but for this I need the full hostname the game is trying to reach, which I cant find. Does someone of you guys know it? Thanks

[gilded garden]

I've never had to fiddle with this, but let's see if we can fix it.

Normally you'd use the loopback adapter trick and I believe that just uses an IP, not a hostname or domain name.

https://www.whatismyip.com/reverse-dns-lookup/ but you can do a reverse dns lookup here if you have your IP

I don't think every ISP provides a domain name though.

So there's 3 options:

1. Use link, enter that name.
2. Execute the command ipconfig /all and look for an entry named "hostname" and use that
3. Simply enter your public IP address

Number 2 is very unlikely

[carmine fable]

If it just used the ip adress, it would work I believe

It probably calls something like servers.raceroom.com/server, which then returns my ip

And servers.raceroom.com is what i would need

[gilded garden]

I'll try to connect to a server and keep an eye on traffic

Idk if that's true

@carmine fable pretty sure that's wrong.

just find your domain name (the link i sent) and use that

[carmine fable]

you are probably right

sorry, my mistake

let me try it

[gilded garden]

np

if you want to know your ip just go to whatsmyip.com

[carmine fable]

okay, i told the router to whitelist my hostname

brb

[gilded garden]

best of luck, if that doesn't work, try the loopback adapter trick

[carmine fable]

nope -_-, still fails

ill try the loopback adapter

[gilded garden]

do you have the forum post on how to do it?

[carmine fable]

i just googled

but it still fails sadly

maybe a reboot does the trick

[gilded garden]

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[gilded garden]

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[gilded garden]

show screenshots of all the things you changed if you can

[carmine fable]

works now 🙂

classic rtfm moment

thank you 🙂

[gilded garden]

hahahaha np man

been there 🙂

[carmine fable]

we've all been there, who says they havn't is lying

[gilded garden]

yeeep