Strange connection issues,

Alright, so I don't really understand what is going on, before anyone goes to point out that it has to do with "Port Forwarding" or a "Firewall exception", I'd like to state that you're wrong. I don't have any type of fire-wall running and my ports are forwarded correctly.

I recently picked up the SmartFox Server, and started to mess around with it, however once I wanted to test it over the internet, everything started falling apart, when they tried to connect to me via my IPv4 address, they could not..

Now, I had to think back a bit, but I did figure out it wasn't a port problem, I tested port 9933 and it was working fine, however I changed the SmartFox Server to listen for TCP/UDP on port 5555, which also didn't do anything for me, so, I went ahead and wrote a very, VERY basic BARE-BONES back end, to see what was going on

(This is a java back-end, basic server)

Code (csharp):

1. import java.io.IOException;
2. import java.net.ServerSocket;
3. import java.net.Socket;
4.  
5.  
6. public class Main implements Runnable {
7.  
8.     ServerSocket _serverSocket;
9.     Socket _socket;
10.    
11.     public Main() {
12.         try {
13.             System.out.println("Starting Server");
14.             _serverSocket = new ServerSocket(5555);
15.         } catch (IOException e) {
16.             System.out.println("Startup Failed");
17.             e.printStackTrace();
18.         }
19.     }
20.    
21.     public void run() {
22.         while(true) {
23.             try {
24.                 _socket = _serverSocket.accept();
25.                 String connectingHost = _socket.getInetAddress().getHostName();
26.                 System.out.println("Connection from " + connectingHost);
27.             } catch (IOException e) {
28.                 e.printStackTrace();
29.             }
30.         }
31.     }
32.  
33.     public static void main(String args[]) {
34.         new Thread(new Main()).start();
35.     }
36. }
37.  

Alright, so I'm running this server, now I try to connect locally using my Unity3D application and I receive the following message from the server:

Great, so I have connected locally, so I attempted to connect using my Ip address, 50.**.**.110

Alright, so it's obviously connecting and I'm not getting any connection errors on the unity side, so does anyone know what's going on? I've spent the last 2-3 hours learning how to use Smart-Fox server, and although I don't have a detailed understanding of it yet, I'm proud of what I've accomplished on a "localhost" scale and would like to branch it outwards.

 

Can you explain this sentence, not sure what your doing here:

First you state that it worked on 9933 and then you say that it also doesn't do anything on 5555 ?
Also not that testing on localhost and the internet are different things but a simple telnet on the TCP port should give some info.

 

Better explained, SmartFox by default listens on port: 9933
The server that I wrote up was listening on port: 5555

After realizing that I could connect to the basic server that I wrote that listened on port: 5555 I set SmartFox to listen on Port: 5555, which in result still didn't do anything (Couldn't connect/locate the server)

After that, I changed my custom server to listen on port: 9933 instead of 5555, and I could still connect, this was my testing to ensure it was not a port related issue.

 

Are you using the WebPlayer? And if you are using it, are you prefetching the policy?

 

No, I am not using the web-player.

Here's my thread on the SF Forums that has more information

http://www.smartfoxserver.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=16557

 

are you using unity free or pro?