i had to mess with my hosts file in order to get the messenger working inside my lan
originally it looked like this
127.0.0.1 be #“be” is my hostname on my lan[/b]
but in order to get presence and messaging working right in the lan i had to change it to look like this
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost be[/b]
so everything was working fine, and i wanted to get remote clients logged in. so, like every other service i host, i log my remote clients into a URL i registered with a service that links my dynamic ip to it.
they are able to log in, but presence doesnt work, nor do chatrooms, IM etc.
so in the admin console i changed my domain name to bmy.gotdns.com (the url from the dynamic ip to url service), and it still didnt work.
so i figure the next step must be to again edit the hosts file with different combinations of 127.0.0.1 and bmy.gotdns.com, and i still cant seem to get it working.
do i need to change my actual computers name? should i change the localhost.localdomain localhost to something else? im experimenting but i cant seem to figure it out.
As far as I can tell, the domain ‘‘localdomain’’ doesn’‘t exist on your end. In that light: configuring it in your hosts file (a file that helps you resolve hostnames to ip’'s) makes no sense.
I’'d drop everything from that file, see if that works.
if it doesn’'t, add
127.0.0.1 bmy
optionally followed by the word ‘‘localhost’’ (without ‘’)
If that doesn’'t work, replace that line with this: