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Hi Guys

I am having issues with external connections to the server.

LAN connections connect fine, but WAN connections get the following error after the server selection screen:

"The client could not attach to the game server. It must have been taken down, please wait a few minutes and try again.".

On the console, this is what I see:

00:43:5:Client connected [Total:1] ('<my external IP>' 1/1)
00:43:5:Login 'richm'
00:43:5:Client disconnected [Total:0] ('<my external IP>', acct='richm')

my sphere.ini [SERVER] settings are commented out, and in the triggers script I have the following under the server_start trigger:

SERV.SERVIP=myhost.no-ip.org
I've also tried:
SERV.SERVIP=<my external IP> but it makes no difference.

I am using the standard 2593 port, which has been forwarded to my server on the router. Canyouseeme.org reports success when checked.

Windows Firewall is disabled. I tried to enable it and then allow sphereserver as an exception but it made no difference.

When the server starts, it reports this:
Monitoring IP 192.168.1.81:2593 (TCP) - Main server

This is obviously an internal LAN address.

I added a log command into the triggers file for when a client tries to connect, and this is the result:

00:39:(sphere_serv_triggers.scp,55)serv ip is <my external IP>

I'm out of ideas.... google and forum searches and thrown up nothing... This is the same setup I used about 2/3 years ago and it worked fine back then.

If I put in http://myhost.no-ip.org it redirects to my webserver, so I know the port forwarding is working. If I put in http://myhost.no-ip.org:2593 it errors, with an "empty response".

Any help is appreciated.

edit: not sure it is relevant but I am using client 7.0.20.0