I'm stumped

[James Weatherall]

Andrew,

"Connection timed out" has nothing to do with the Hosts setting - it means
that the server computer isn't responding at all.  That might be because
there's a firewall in the way, or because the IP address you're using is
wrong, for example.

Regards,

Wez @ RealVNC Ltd


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Hime [mailto:andrewhime "at" verizon.net] 
> Sent: 28 June 2007 20:30
> To: James Weatherall
> Subject: Re: RE: I'm stumped
> 
> 
> >Hi Andrew,
> >
> >> Why's that? Because there's no way to get that line back. You 
> >> can click add and then click OK without typing anything - it 
> >> puts "+255.255.255.255/0.0.0.0" in there, which I would think 
> >> is roughly equivalent, yeah? But here I am today, unable to 
> >> connect with it set to that, yet yesterday I was connecting fine.
> >
> >+255.255.255.255/0.0.0.0 is equivalent to + (as is anything ending in
> >/0.0.0.0, in fact).
> >
> >What is the actual error message that you're getting when you try to
> >connect?
> 
> Connection timed out (10060) - but I'm able to connect to the 
> box using other services (Shoutcast/Winamp on port 8000) and 
> the box is in the DMZ.