Månad: juni 2015

The new hypergrid is up and I finally have some time to write something. All the islands are stable now and I can jump in and out to other grids. But it was 5 days of hard work to figure out how to set it up. There is not much documentation to help. The grid is of course behind a router and firewall and is a local grid connect to internet. This creates a lot of problems if you want to connect both inside the network and outside.

Helpful things I have learned.

— You need a router that can transfer the communication to the different Sims and you need to know how to setup port forwarding.

— I think you need a domain where you can setup subdomains. Anyway this is how I got it to work. The subdomains do not do much on the internet its for the internal network. The big problem is that a internal network and the internet works the same way but the computers in the internal network do not have any internet IP addresses. And you want to be able to do stuff on the islands even if you are behind the firewall. With a subdomain it is possible for the internal workstations to find for example the sandbox. Then its address is hg.digitalkittens.net:8002:2worlds2go not much use on the internet for that there is the routers port forwarding.

— Inside the network you need your own DNS server to solve the network addresses in the internal network. I do not think this is necessary more than for the internal network. If your not working with computers setting up a DNS server is like running in to a wall. Ask someone who knows.

Well, well.

As I said it took me a week to figure it out. Setting up a single island really work right out of the box. But when you get it going it is easy to ad more Sims.

Of course this is a working grid so most of the Sims are only up when someone is working on them. The grid address is hg.digitalkittens.net:8002:2worlds2go But there are some restrictions because we have a terrible internet connection being all out in the Swedish landscape. You can see more on hg.digitalkittens.net:8002:2worlds2go. Sometimes the High Fidelity server is running on the sandbox and slow things down it is a Alfa you know.