Server is not acessible by external IP - all ports and firewall are open.

Garry's Mod coding
#1

Hello,
I’ve already port forwarded everything and completely disabled my firewall and my server is still unacessible using my external IP. I used three different softwares to test the ports and all of them are open. What could be causing this issue?
Btw these are the ports I’ve forwarded:


TCP     27014:27050     ->     27015
UDP  	3478           ->       3478
UDP      4379:4380       ->      4379
UDP    27000:27030     ->      27015

And the script I’m using to run the server is this:


start /wait srcds.exe +login anonymous +maxplayers 40 -console +host_workshop_collection <my_collection_id> -authkey <my_auth_key> -sv_region 2 -sv_lan 0 -heartbeat +gamemode terrortown +map ttt_casino_b2

I’ve searched a lot but couldn’t find anything that I haven’t tried yet… would appreciate some help.

PS: I am able to join my server and play through “Local Network”, but only because it uses my internal IP to connect. When I try connecting through my external IP it does not work nor show at the “Internet” server list.

#2

Unrelated, but you do not need an authkey anymore

#3

Is this your server at your house, or a server at a data center?

#4

Thx for the info!

My computer.

#5

Can you check if ports are open here? http://canyouseeme.org/
I don’t think there are too much to do, hosting from home it’s a bit hard in your ISP doesn’t allow you

#6

I’m getting “ERR_CONNECTION_TIMED_OUT” on that website. Anyways I used some different software as I previously mentioned. Also tried this website: https://www.yougetsignal.com/tools/open-ports/. All of them returned “Port 27015 is open […]” (same for the other ports).
I don’t think my ISP doesn’t allow me as I’ve succesfully hosted some other server applications on my machine in the past. Thx for the reply tho.

Edit:

Just to clarify a bit, this is what I get on the console after trying to connect to my external IP vs internal IP:


 connect <my_external_IP>
Connecting <my_external_IP>...
Retrying <my_external_IP>...
Retrying <my_external_IP>...
Retrying <my_external_IP>...
Retrying <my_external_IP>...
Retrying <my_external_IP>...
Connection failed after 6 retries.

Connecting to 192.168.15.25:27015...
Connected to 192.168.15.25:27015
#7

-port 27015 +ip 0.0.0.0 Add this to your setup parameters and try to start your server.

#8

That returned this error:

Engine error:
Couldn’t allocate any server IP port.

#9

Try and run the server with a different port all you have to do is port forward a random port then use the -port to change it to that port, that might fix your problem.

#10

Same error.

Edit: Looking through the console log of when the server starts, there’s this line:
Network: IP 192.168.15.25, mode MP, dedicated Yes, ports 27015 SV / 27005 CL

is that right? shouldn’t it show my external IP there? Because the only time it shows my external IP on the console is at the end:


Connection to Steam servers successful.
   Public IP is <my_external_ip>.
Assigned anonymous gameserver Steam ID <steam-id>.
VAC secure mode is activated.

Also, is it ok to use anonymous login for the steam?

#11

It’s ok to use anonymous for login and on my console it doesn’t show my external IP it shows 0.0.0.0 because thats the ip I set it to, did you change the 0.0.0.0 to your normal ip? If you did then change it back to 0.0.0.0 and try to start your server.

#12

It’s not the game, is your router that doesn’t let you to open a public server, search in google how to manually open ports in your router

#13

Lol, I thought you had put “0.0.0.0” just as an example. Didn’t work either. Also tried with 127.0.0.1 and “localhost”, but got nothing. This is the entire console log from server startup:
*You’ll notice there are some errors in it, tho I think they are all from plugins/models and shoudn’t interfere at all (even because I’m able to join through LAN).



Console initialized.
ConVarRef mat_dxlevel doesn't point to an existing ConVar
Game.dll loaded for "Garry's Mod"
Initializing Steam libraries for Workshop..
WS: Waiting for Steam to log us in.......
WS: Fetching collection info...
Processing collection XXXXXXXXXXXX...
   Collection 'XXXXXXXXXXXX'
   24 new addons
WS: Finished!
WS: Processing 24 addons...
<mounts addons, no errors here>
WS: Finished!
Changing gamemode to Trouble in Terrorist Town (terrortown)
Network: IP 192.168.15.25, mode MP, dedicated Yes, ports 27015 SV / 27005 CL
Error loading cfg/trusted_keys_base.txt
Error loading cfg/pure_server_minimal.txt
PREP OK
Failed to load $include VMT file (materials/GLASS/GLASSWINDOW_FROSTED.vmt)
Failed to load $include VMT file (materials/GLASS/GLASSWINDOW_FROSTED.vmt)
Failed to load $include VMT file (materials/GLASS/GLASSWINDOW_FROSTED.vmt)
Failed to load $include VMT file (materials/GLASS/GLASSWINDOW_FROSTED.vmt)
Failed to load $include VMT file (materials/GLASS/GLASSWINDOW_FROSTED.vmt)
Failed to load $include VMT file (materials/GLASS/GLASSWINDOW_FROSTED.vmt)
Failed to load $include VMT file (materials/GLASS/GLASSWINDOW_FROSTED.vmt)
Failed to load $include VMT file (materials/GLASS/GLASSWINDOW_FROSTED.vmt)
Failed to load $include VMT file (materials/GLASS/GLASSWINDOW_FROSTED.vmt)
Failed to load $include VMT file (materials/GLASS/GLASSWINDOW_FROSTED.vmt)
Included TTT language file: portuguese.lua
Trying to create entities too early! (prop_physics)
ERROR!: Can't create physics object for models/hunter/misc/sphere025x025.mdl
HTTP failed - ISteamHTTP isn't available!
Trouble In Terrorist Town gamemode initializing...
This is TTT version 2017-04-20
Making workshop map available for client download
Executing dedicated server config file server.cfg
Using map cycle file cfg/mapcycle.txt.
Trying to precache breakable prop, but has no model name
Trying to precache breakable prop, but has no model name
Error! Flag "$model" is multiply defined in material "models/sgg/starwars/weapon
s/luke_saber/saber2"!
Error! Flag "$model" is multiply defined in material "models/sgg/starwars/weapon
s/luke_saber/saber"!
Error! Flag "$model" is multiply defined in material "models/sgg/starwars/weapon
s/luke_saber/saber3"!
KeyValues Error: RecursiveLoadFromBuffer:  got EOF instead of keyname in file materials/models/sgg/starwars/weapons/luke_saber/glow.vmt
Unlittwotexture, (*proxies*), (*TextureScroll*),
KeyValues Error: RecursiveLoadFromBuffer:  got EOF instead of keyname in file materials/models/sgg/starwars/weapons/luke_saber/glow.vmt
Unlittwotexture, (*proxies*), (*TextureScroll*),
KeyValues Error: RecursiveLoadFromBuffer:  got EOF instead of keyname in file materials/models/sgg/starwars/weapons/obiwan_ep1_saber/glow.vmt
Unlittwotexture, (*proxies*), (*TextureScroll*),
KeyValues Error: RecursiveLoadFromBuffer:  got EOF instead of keyname in file materials/models/sgg/starwars/weapons/obiwan_ep1_saber/glow.vmt
Unlittwotexture, (*proxies*), (*TextureScroll*),
Error! Flag "$model" is multiply defined in material "models/sgg/starwars/weapons/obiwan_ep1_saber/saber1"!
Error! Flag "$model" is multiply defined in material "models/sgg/starwars/weapons/obiwan_ep1_saber/saber"!
MDLCache: Weapons/melee/v_katana.mdl uses a different model version to the engine (got 49, expected 48)
Nav File is wrong or something (1)
Initializing Steam libraries for secure Internet server
No account token specified; logging into anonymous game server account.  (Use sv_setsteamaccount to login to a persistent account.)
Connection to Steam servers successful.
   Public IP is XXXXXXXXXXXXX.
Assigned anonymous gameserver Steam ID [XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX].
VAC secure mode is activated.

It’d help if you read my post and the previous answers before guessing anything.

#14

Try using a different port just for shits and giggles.

#15

Already tried using different ports, without success.

As for the errors I previously mentioned, I tried running the server with no addons at all and I still couldn’t join the server using my public IP.

#16

Try to host a half life or counter 1.6 client, if you can’t then it’s not the garrysmod

I put all my bets that your router doesn’t let you to host, i’ve spent lot of time with my ISP disallowing me to create servers until i’ve discovered a way to set my router to bridge mode (Very specific for a really old router i had)
Then i’ve changed my isp and it works sometimes without having to open ports

#17

Your ISP is preventing you from hosting shit on your computer.