This is probably on the wrong site, so go ahead and move it if you have to... but I have been getting this same problem for the past week and it's really starting to irritate me. When I try to join my friend's MC server, I get an error saying "Disconnected Took too long to login." I googled the error and found that it could possibly be because the minecraft member authentication servers are down, but I eliminated that possibility by having my friend login to my account. It worked fine for him with the same server.
I also thought that maybe my minecraft client wasn't up to date with the server, so I tried updating my client with the update that the server used(12w07a) but that didn't change anything.
Then, I tried the idea to port forward my router to 25565, but that didn't do anything. My friend said sometimes ISP's(mine is verizon fios) block certain ports from being forwarded. If that's the case, is there any way of getting around it?
So I am not sure what exactly is causing the problem. Anybody have any ideas?
If your connection worked fine before this past week, it wouldn't make sense that Verizon is suddenly blocking certain ports. More than likely, there are some odd network settings floating around in your computer. If you're not sure if port 25565 is the correct port to forward, you can Enable DMZ (if your router supports it), which is basically forwarding ALL your ports (be sure to set it to your correct LAN IP, which can be found by command-prompting 'ipconfig'). If you have no software firewalls turned on, and you have enabled DMZ, there really shouldn't be any more networking issues...
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We've developed a server software and for ease of use for end-users, we are using the localtunnel-server app on one of our linux servers to get around the need for port forwarding and messing around with firewalls.
The problem is that it seems to tunnel "all" traffic on the port 80. However, we are afraid of this being abused. We would like to restrict traffic somehow and I wanted to know if that was even possible.
For example, let's say our app uses the "/myapp" virtual directory on the localhost website. So if a request is supposed to go to http://localhost/myapp/index.html then the traffic gets tunneled to http://mytunnel.myserver.com/myapp/index.html
The problem is, if there are other sites running on localhost, http://localhost/someotherapp also gets through. We'd like to block urls that don't match a format or contain keywords such as "/myapp"
Is that even possible? And if so, any guidance on how to achieve this, would be greatly appreciated.
So I'm baffled, no dynamic IP is activated on either the router side or my local desktop side. I have to change my IP in Azure almost twice a day. I'm getting scared as it might be a security issue. I tried to write into a chat and it told me that I'm not allowed to use it, because I'm using a proxy, which I don't, not even VPN, so I'm asking you what I should do or if I should be scared?
(scanned the PC and there were no issues)
IPs are not likely to change like that for residential users, you can double check however by logging into your modem and determining the IP of your WAN. This won't reveal the proxied IPs/etc, but what your ISP sent you.
If that's changing then sure, no issues but odd.
Now if that's fixed and it's still changing, you may have a proxy installed and forgot to turn it off.
I'd not worry personally but you could be subject to MITM man in the middle stuff. Best you can do is sort this and if you deem it to be MITM to just change passwords/etc ezpz.
I followed all kinds of instructions all day to get my first server up and running. I tested it on 3 devices and thought I had it... until my friend tried it and discovered "site can't be reached."
In double-checking on my end, I found that if I disconnected my phone from wi-fi, sure enough, I couldn't reach my server.
I realize there could be a million things wrong, but I don't know where to start. I am not even sure what additional information I should include to help find the issue. If I had to guess, I'd say I failed to open the firewall on my server port 80. But I really have no clue. Ubuntu is new to me.
Can you include details about your setup? How is the Ubuntu server configured? If it's your own hardware, have you forwarded the ports on your router? Do you have a Dynamic DNS server in place? Is there an internal firewall (ufw?). Is the Node.js server bound to the loopback? Is Nginx in proxy_pass mode?
As mentioned by the OP, the ports weren't forwarded.
I disable the internet connection and run the node server npm start, then it throws the error:
And now enabling internet connection and running the server works fine:
So, I want to confirm if this really needs to be connected to the internet while starting the server?
If it really needs internet connection, then is there any idea to run the server offline?
If I connect to the internet and run the server and there after plug out the internet connection then there's nothing goes wrong. Everything works fine. I don't know why just running the server requires the internet connection.
OMG! It's really cool! I got it working offline after hard research in my code using 127.0.0.1 instead of localhost for mongo uri.
Using localhost needed for me to connect to the internet.
And using 127.0.0.1 worked in both condition i.e. with internet connection and without internet connection.
But, really I'm totally amazed of this.
I found the really cool topic on this which made me clear about this.
If you use 127.0.0.1, then (intelligent) software will just turn that directly into an IP address and use it.
And there's no guarantee that your hosts file will actually be used for that resolution (first, or at all) so localhost may become a totally different IP address.
I am currently making a website. I'd want people to try it out. They can do so right now if I send them my IP and port and they put it in the URL. My computer acts as the server right now.
Is there a way to use my computer as the server but without actually sharing directly my IP? Some kind of rerouting. I am not looking for something very secure, I am only looking for a solution that doesn't involve putting my IP in the URL.
You can register a domain name (or use a free equivalent like FreeDNS), but your IP will still be visible to anyone who pings you server. You could rent a VPS and use that to proxy requests to your server, or you could use an anonymizing service like Tor to keep your IP hidden, but there's really no reason to go through all that trouble. If you're worried about people having your IP address, there's no reason to, because there's not really much people can do with it. If you're looking for an easier way for you to share it and for people to remember it, I suggest FreeDNS or No-IP.
You might want to look into using ngrok - https://ngrok.com/.
It allows you to run general internet traffic to any port on your local machine, via somesubdomain.nkgrok.com. Also, it works if you're behind a firewall - you just open up a connection to ngrok from your computer, and ngrok will forward incoming traffic to your computer through that connection.