re: Traffic blocked on UDP port 15003
Sunday, November 15, 2009 at 11:36 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Ari
(1378 messages posted)
Are you absolutely 100% positive that your friend's computer is behind the same router
that your computer is behind?
I don't understand how his could possibly work if he's behind a router, unless he
has set the router to forward that port to his PC. And if the router is maintained
by the university, that seems unlikely.
On Sunday, November 15, 2009 at 3:28 am, gazeto wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I am trying to use an application that listens for incoming traffic on UDP port
15003,
>and it keeps complaining that the port is blocked.
>
>I thought it might be the router, so I tried to run the program on a friend's computer
>(I live in a university dorm), and everything worked perfectly. Therefore, I concluded
>it must be my machine that gives me trouble.
>
>From there, I shut down my ZA firewall (I never used the WinXP one, it's been off
>forever). There is no other application that I can think of that could be blocking
>ports (of course, I don't have more than one firewall installed).
>
>I checked the PID of the program I want to run, then looked up the connections on
>netstat, and I can see it appear in the list:
>
>UDP 0.0.0.0:15003 *:* 592
>[dtella.exe]
>
>So it must have been able to open the port and bind to it, but apparently it receives
>no traffic on it... What could be the problem? Honestly, at this point, I am lost
>and I don't know what else I could try.
>
>Thanks in advance for any suggestions you might have.
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