pinacoladaxb Posted January 9, 2009 Share Posted January 9, 2009 I own the domain atomicriot.com, which is hosted on hostmonster. I am running a server at home as well, which I want to use only for my online games that I make. My game server is opened on port 6121, on my ip (71.60.197.242). My goal is to allow people to connect to that server by typing in "server.atomicriot.com" rather than "71.60.197.242." In order to do this, I contacted hostmonster and they changed the A Record for server.atomicriot.com to 71.60.197.242. Now my problem is that I cannot seem to connect to the server when typing in "server.atomicriot.com." am getting an error that says that the connection was attempted on something that is not a socket. In addition, here's what happens in my Terminal Application (macs only) when I type in "ping server.atomicriot.com": PING server.atomicriot.com (71.60.197.242): 56 data bytes 36 bytes from c-71-60-197-242.hsd1.pa.comcast.net (71.60.197.242): Destination Host Unreachable Vr HL TOS Len ID Flg off TTL Pro cks Src Dst 4 5 00 5400 afcb 0 0000 40 01 b1ea 10.0.1.197 71.60.197.242 Can someone please help me correct this problem? Thanks. -Adam Note - this post is an extension of THIS TOPIC, which I marked as solved a while ago. You don't need to read, however, to help me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel0 Posted January 9, 2009 Share Posted January 9, 2009 What happens when you ping the IP address instead? Some routers can be or are configured to drop WAN side PING packets. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lamez Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 I went to the domain, and all I got was a blank page, of course on the port you have listed above. My home server has a domain that is pointed to my server from servage's servers but, I cannot load my website using the domain, when I am on my network, I have to use the host name, "megatron". I have no idea why, and it just changed on me all of a sudden, but that might be your problem, try loading the website from a different computer off your network. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
corbin Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 I went to the domain, and all I got was a blank page, of course on the port you have listed above. My home server has a domain that is pointed to my server from servage's servers but, I cannot load my website using the domain, when I am on my network, I have to use the host name, "megatron". I have no idea why, and it just changed on me all of a sudden, but that might be your problem, try loading the website from a different computer off your network. You probably don't care at this point, but if you ever wanted to use the full domain name, you could just modify your hosts file (C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts) to have your host name redirected to megatron. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pinacoladaxb Posted January 11, 2009 Author Share Posted January 11, 2009 Hey thanks for the replies, but I just restarted my server and it works fine now. Also, don't bother connecting to it; you're not supposed to see anything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lamez Posted January 13, 2009 Share Posted January 13, 2009 I went to the domain, and all I got was a blank page, of course on the port you have listed above. My home server has a domain that is pointed to my server from servage's servers but, I cannot load my website using the domain, when I am on my network, I have to use the host name, "megatron". I have no idea why, and it just changed on me all of a sudden, but that might be your problem, try loading the website from a different computer off your network. You probably don't care at this point, but if you ever wanted to use the full domain name, you could just modify your hosts file (C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts) to have your host name redirected to megatron. lol its a linux server! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
corbin Posted January 13, 2009 Share Posted January 13, 2009 Ahhh didn't see that ;p. Used to people using Windows when accessing web sites. /etc/hosts ;p. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lamez Posted January 13, 2009 Share Posted January 13, 2009 eh, its no big deal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
corbin Posted January 13, 2009 Share Posted January 13, 2009 You probably just want an excuse to type megatron as often as possible ;p. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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