The problems I'm having with the metaserver solicitation seems to be down to the fact that I am running the server behind a network address translation firewall which causes solicit to fail to bind to an ip address. My solution was to add the name that I am using in the metaservers file (eurotwinks.team17.com) into the /etc/hosts so that locally the address points to the private IP but everyone else resolves it to the public IP. This seems to work. I've now run into a problem with PreT itself though, the bots start up as player 1 begins to join, but when the game is (4 bots) v (3 bots and player) no-one new can join (all teams greyed out) Anyone run into this before? By the way is there an ongoing problem with continuum? I'd like to get a new netrek.org name for this server, something like practice.eu.netrek.org or training or something, does that sound sensible? Cheers ______________________________________________________________ David Watson, Network Manager, Team17 Software Ltd. Phone: +44-1924-267776 Fax: +44-1924-267658 Cellular: +44-777-1793298 ______________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ vanilla-devel mailing list vanilla-devel at us.netrek.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/vanilla-devel