----- Original Message ----- From: "Kevin Bennett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Freenet Support" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2003 3:01 PM Subject: [freenet-support] Freenet port not listening according to firewall.
> I noticed that once again I have no incoming connections. > > Looking at my software firewall logs I see a lot of the following entries > (dozens per minute): > > TCP Syn Packet on non-listening port. Packet has been dropped > Source IP address: <removed> > Destination IP address: <removed> > TCP Source Port: 4991 > TCP Destination Port: 49247 > TCP Message Flags: 0x00000002 > > Adding an 'allow all TCP connections to use this port' rule makes no > difference. > > If I switch off the software firewall (that's okay as I'm behind a hardware > wall too) then I straight away get plenty of incoming connections. This definitely indicates to me that the firewall is the problem. > So for some reason the firewall seems to think that Freenet isn't listening > on 49247 despite the fact that it obviously is. > Does this mean that Freenet isn't advertising its port's 'openness' > correctly? Hardly, applications doesn't need to do any kind of 'advertising'. Applications just open a port and the OS does the rest. What does the appropriate OS tools (netstat for instance) tell you about which ports that is open?. Any differences in the output with the firewall on and off? /N _______________________________________________ Support mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://dodo.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support
