re: Traffic blocked on UDP port 15003
Sunday, November 15, 2009 at 2:17 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Adam Bradley
(8786 messages posted)
From my quick googling it looks like dtella is a P2P program of some kind. it is
very common for universities to block them to keep their bandwidth from being swamped.
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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