Kerio Firewall and Soulseek
 

Hi I have a quick question about Kerio Firewall being configured to work with soulseek. To get it to work, instead of opening only the one port that soulseek says it uses, i had to open up all ports for soulseek to use, on both TCP and UDP. Is that a big risk if only soulseek can use it?

Kerio does bind to exes to, so you only opened the ports for soulseek.exe

It's still bad with programs claiming to use one port, and it's not a fact :p

i don't know about soulseek, but most programs that access the internet need permission for ALL outbound ports, and only the incoming ports you select/configure the program to use, for inbound tcp and udp.
so when prompted about outbound connection allow all ports, but for inbound ones you should only allow on the port configured in the apps settings

Soulseek uses a random port to avoid being detected/blocked by ISPs, Universities etc.

Yea, if you are using Kerio, it still blocks ports that are not being used by soulseek at that time. Don't worry about getting attacked, Kerio will still block you.

-Duane

Thanks guys