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NAT Servers grrrrr
Drift Monde
Junior Member
Join date: 27 Nov 2003
Posts: 335
12-24-2005 14:01
I am currently unable to connect to SL due to being out of town and using the hotel wireless that seems to use NAT servers. According to their tech support there are no ports blocked. I connect to everything else fine except being able to log into SL..

Anyone have any work around for this? Going to be a long 8 days if not.. any help would be greatly appreciated since LL is on vacation the next few days..
Burke Prefect
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Join date: 29 Oct 2004
Posts: 2,785
12-24-2005 14:02
From: Drift Monde
I am currently unable to connect to SL due to being out of town and using the hotel wireless that seems to use NAT servers. According to their tech support there are no ports blocked. I connect to everything else fine except being able to log into SL..

Anyone have any work around for this? Going to be a long 8 days if not.. any help would be greatly appreciated since LL is on vacation the next few days..


It's not NAT. It's UDP blocking. That's not a fuckup on their end. That's a FEATURE.
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Drift Monde
Junior Member
Join date: 27 Nov 2003
Posts: 335
12-24-2005 14:39
From: Burke Prefect
It's not NAT. It's UDP blocking. That's not a fuckup on their end. That's a FEATURE.


Placed another phone call to their tech support and I'm told there is no UDP blocking either. :confused:
Drift Monde
Junior Member
Join date: 27 Nov 2003
Posts: 335
12-25-2005 09:16
So no one has ever had this problem? Going to be a long 8 days..

Hope everyone has a Merry Christmas...
Ben Bacon
Registered User
Join date: 14 Jul 2005
Posts: 809
12-27-2005 04:57
From: Drift Monde
Placed another phone call to their tech support and I'm told there is no UDP blocking either. :confused:
They don't need to explicitly block it - they just don't specifically allow it :(
Most firewalls deny everything except what is explicity allowed - but hotel tech support won't tell you this because it's their job to secure the hotel's network.

They would rather leave you with the impression that it can't be done, than have guests asking them to open up arbitrary (in their eyes) holes in their firewall.

While this sucks for people like you and me - it really is The Right Thing for them to do.
I sympathise - and hope the time passes quickly for you :)