name.subsonic.org

[daniell]

Funny stuff here happen.. I cannot connect to my "name.subsonic.org" address anymore. Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at 127.0.0.1:4040.. Neither can i connect to http://Localhost:4040.
Sometimes it also happen to pop up another website, insted of subsonic. I have done nothing to the d-link dir-655 router. Port Forwarding is ok..
Same happens to my Android phone, cannot connect to server..!!

Anybody please..

[Kirk]

Can you please specify your name.subsonic.org so I can go to it, and see if it's really resolving to 127.0.0.1?

I'm not sure how Subsonic decides which IP address to route it to... but if it's going to 127.0.0.1, then that's wrong and will not work on the Internet. 127.0.0.1 is always the IP address of the computer you're sitting on when you try to go to it. That would mean that your subsonic address would only work on the computer hosting Subsonic, and that defeats the purpose.

Cheers,
Kirk

[daniell]

Try dannh.subsonic.org
thnks

[Kirk]

You know, I misread your post. I thought you said your Subsonic URL was resolving to localhost and that was the problem. That's not what you said, you said Subsonic wasn't working, even on Localhost...

I get a login screen for Subsonic on your URL. It works for me... :/

Cheers,
Kirk

[Kirk]

I should note that your Subsonic URL might not work inside your local area network, because it is going to your external IP. The way some routers are setup, they don't know how to loop-back the connection to your computer hosting it.

Aside from that, everything looks fine from here.

Cheers,
Kirk

[daniell]

Thanks, but i still cannot connect to the site with my phone anymore. I now suspect my ISP provider have done something with my setup or something else happen with my router setup...
I used to be able to connect to bouth url's. My official registed domain, and the "name.subsonic.org" ..!!

[Kirk]

If it's just your phone that you can't connect with, then remember that Subsonic requires you to donate for a license key after (30?) days of using the server. After that time period, the API that allowed iPhone\Android\SubAir apps to work before will be disabled until you donate for a license key.

Cheers,
Kirk

[mgrant]

I should note that your Subsonic URL might not work inside your local area network, because it is going to your external IP. The way some routers are setup, they don't know how to loop-back the connection to your computer hosting it.

Aside from that, everything looks fine from here.

Cheers,
Kirk

I don't think that this statement is true. I've noticed that, when accessing my subsonic server from the internet I get a redirect from:
http://<myname>.subsonic.org
to
http://<my_public_ip>:<myport>/subsonic

yet when I access it from my LAN I get a different redirect:
http://<myname>.subsonic.org
to
http://<my_private_ip>:</myport>/subsonic

So, it would appear to me that subsonic knows BOTH my internal and external IP addresses and is smart enough to redirect the browser to the right one in both LAN and Internet cases. I really like that.

-mg

[Kirk]

mgrant, you may be correct. Subsonic's URL redirection seems to be pretty advanced. My LAN is set up to allow loopback, so my Subsonic URL always worked. But that's true for anything. I can connect to a Halo server on my local network by connecting to my external IP from inside, and it's looped back. I have no means to test my claim, I just know that on most routers, the way DynDNS URLs usually work, loopback connections don't work correctly.

Cheers,
Kirk

[daniell]

Well something is wrong here.. And i also donated long time ago.. From inside my LAN, it's no problem to connect to my http://dxxxxxxn.no:4040 or from anywhere outside,
but when i comes to the http://xxxx.subsonic.org, it's no contact. Again, Firefox cannot establish a connection to the server at 127.0.0.1:4040,
same goes for my phone.. Any suggestions.. !!

[mgrant]

Well something is wrong here.. And i also donated long time ago.. From inside my LAN, it's no problem to connect to my http://dxxxxxxn.no:4040 or from anywhere outside,
but when i comes to the http://xxxx.subsonic.org, it's no contact. Again, Firefox cannot establish a connection to the server at 127.0.0.1:4040,
same goes for my phone.. Any suggestions.. !!

Daniell,

Try this, type 'hostname' from a command prompt (or terminal window) on the computer where the subsonic server is running. This will show you the computers name. Now type 'ping <hostname>' substituting your actual hostname. If the response comes from 127.0.0.1 then you should modify your host file. You can create (or modify) an entry for your hostname that maps to the actual IP address. For example my hostname is "subsonic" and its IP address is 10.1.1.200. This is what I have in my hostfile

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127.0.0.1 localhost
10.1.1.200 subsonic.local subsonic

The hostfile is found in /etc/hosts on linux and in c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts on windows.

Let us know if this helps.

-mg

[daniell]

FANTASTIC, it works... that little shitty thing, and it made my life miserable for many days.
Yea, I changed the host IP and server hostname, and everything back to normal..

Thanks to all who participate to solve this problem.

[Kirk]

Good call mgrant... I wouldn't have thought of that right away.

Cheers,
Kirk

[bencjedi]

I'm having the same problem (My Subsonic is licensed). Also have a DLink DIR-655 router

bencjedi.subsonic.org:8080

Supposed to resolve to my Internet IP (76.177.107.3)
But instead:

C:\Documents and Settings\benc>nslookup bencjedi.subsonic.org
*** Can't find server name for address 192.168.0.1: Non-existent domain
*** Default servers are not available
Server: UnKnown
Address: 192.168.0.1

Non-authoritative answer:
Name: bencjedi.subsonic.org
Address: 97.74.125.134

97.74.125.134 is the IP for subsonic.org

It used to work and stopped in August.. I guess when I upgraded SubSonic to a newer version. I just upgraded to 4.1 and no luck.

Whoever maintains the domain, can you please assign the bencjedi hostname address record as 76.177.107.3 so bencjedi.subsonic.org will resolve to my Internet IP? I'd very much like to use my DNS name for my Subsonic server again.

thanks

[bencjedi]

I just installed MobileTerminal and the inetutils on my iPhone4 (a bit of a challenge on iOS 4.1) and did a ping of bencjedi.subsonic.org and it is also incorrectly resolving as 97.74.125.134
Therefore
I think the address record is messed-up on the authoritative DNS server that subsonic.org uses.

How does the Subsonic server register the address record for the host? Do you think maybe that changed a couple releases ago?