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I have my server set up and ready to go but I cant get my ports forwarded properly. I have my router port forwarding the ports to my static ip and i even have my ip DMZ'ed. I even tried the server when my pc was hooked up directly to the modem bypassing the router. I have my windows firewall completely turned off in the control panel but nothing has worked for me.

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How have you determined it doesn't work? What steps have you tried? Did you try to connect to it from the local machine? From outside the network? Did you try joining the #bzflag IRC channel on Freenode and having ibot query the server? You should tell us what you did to test it. Simply saying "nothing has worked" doesn't give us enough information to help you.
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I've tried on localhost and it works but once I try from outside the network it can't connect.
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yourmom wrote:I've tried on localhost and it works but once I try from outside the network it can't connect.
Ok, so it works but you really haven't given us anything to go on. So here goes my attempt: You're doing it wrong! ;-)

I would make sure you are forwarding the ports correctly on your router. You can check out http://portforward.com/ for help on that. I know on one router I had I had to forward the ports and then set up a firewall rule as well.
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I'm just going to say that you probably either can't run servers (since you are on comcast residental, if I recall correctly) or have no idea about basic networking concepts.
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whats the deal with comcast residential? :(
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They don't want you hosting services on the residential connection. They want you to pay more for a business account (which probably costs a good deal more). You'd be better off getting a VPS or dedicated server somewhere.
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alright thanks blast once again
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