This is why I'm using DHT
No need to forward ports manually, because the router just forwards ALL ports to my PC.
...Even with DHT set up in the front end, that sounds ripe for a DDoS attack, to me....
But anyway... Blizzard has a problem we're still working on, and here's where we left off:
i was making a normal server, where you just make the game over the internet.
So you're NOT making a Dedicated Server, you're starting an "Internet" game INSIDE of Halo via "Multiplayer" -> "Internet " / "Create Game" then, right?
IFF ("if and ONLY IF") you are behind a firewall/router device try DISABLING any/all firewall software ON YOUR COMPUTER (the one on which you're starting the game) and then try to make a server. Once you've made some tests to see if it works without any firewalls at work, REENABLE YOUR FIREWALL SOFTWARE IMMEDIATELY, then:
- If it WORKED with the firewall software OFF, then find out how to "allow/enable/open the necessary ports" for each software firewall you have enabled. (Leave them all of and enable/modify them each one at a time, checking each time to see that it now works again....) Once you've "allowed" the application/network traffic in all that software it should now work, OR...
- If having all your firewall software DISABLED didn't work, then you have not successfully opened the necessary ports through your firewall/router device. (You might want to get more detail on your network setup, and post a diagram/description of it - WITHOUT MAKE/MODEL # INFO, PLS! - here for me/us to debug.)