Port blocking
 

Can anyone confirm or deny if ntl are blocking the following ports

34518 and 34519 both on UDP

I called them Yesterday and was told that they are not blocking them but I am having loads of trouble with an app that uses them and have been informed on another forum that they are being blocked.

I would have asked on nthellworld.com but ntl seem to have killed it?

Thx.

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rmg.

Re: Port blocking
 

Sorry m8 we are not blocking these ports

Re: Port blocking
 

what is the app? what setup do you have? ( i.e. directly connected, router, ICS anything like that? ) any kind of firewall?

Re: Port blocking
 

Hi, thanks for the confirm.

The app I am trying to run is called Xlink. It is a tunelling app for xbox that allows you to play system link games over the internet.

I am running through a router but have tried opening these ports and have even put the PC in the DMZ but still no luck.

The relevant threads are here

http://forums.xbox-scene.com/index.p...f=46&t=124238&

and here

http://forums.xbox-scene.com/index.p...f=46&t=134021&

Sounds like they are wrong tho?

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rmg.

Re: Port blocking
 

as i understand it, the only ports being blocked are those associated with viruses and security vulns...
and as far as the argument about 'making people pay for the gaming service'... if that was the case they would be blocking the XBox LIVE ports, not just the XBConnect type ones. If they are blocking them, the only reason i could think is because of the amount of data sent for things like XBC and XLink ( as in they are 'pretending' to the XBox that they are a 10Mb network, the xbox will chuck out loads of data )

have you looked in your router logs to check whether the PC is actually attempting to connect out? it may not be getting as far as the router.

Re: Port blocking
 

You should try our xbox forum instead ;)

Re: Port blocking
 

is there a thread in there I can look at?

Re: Port blocking
 

That's nothing more than a guess on the part of whoever told you, it's not correct.

Re: Port blocking
 

an update on the blocked ports.....

Re: Port blocking
 

taken fron Nexus :nono:

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and ? atleast hes informative instead of 'we dont block any other ports' even though new ones have been added to the block list :Peace: :rolleyes:

Re: Port blocking
 

so? they are blocked ports. if a customer called up and said "i cant use port 138", what are we supposed to do? lie and say thats nothing to do with ntl???
:shrug:

yes thats from nexus, but its accurate, to the point and relevant, so why waste time rewriting it?

Re: Port blocking
 

What new ones ?

That looks like the original list (in fact, I believe they are blocking port 135 as well which is missing from that list).

Re: Port blocking
 

i was not aware of 27373 being blocked

Re: Port blocking
 

Here is something that might be of slight interest. For anyone that's got a LinkSys router. I had a conflab with LinkSys recently and in the next firmware release for LinkSys routers there may be a workaround for blocked inbound ports. The ones that are uses as reply ports.

I beleive that there will be a facility where the user will be able to tell the router what short-term inbound reply ports not to use. Question is, when eill the next firmware update be made available.

Oh well.