no valnet. or IP's work

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me and my buddy are trying to play HOI2 but for some reason i can't connect to val server, so we try IP's but his comp says host not found. im not sure what to do, my firewall is off, and weve played tons of games before, but for some reason its just not workin....
any help would be nice, thanks

 

[Nehas]

maybe you should try playing through hamachi...

 

[Umbre]

You will find 2 threads about Router set up here.

 

[Hamminator]

Check the sig for Hamachi.