ports

[gride420]

Hello everyone i have a quick question someone can help me out with i hope. I have had shoutcast running fine, but yesterday we added a firewall to your server. We runn shoutcast off ports 8000 and 8005 so we left those ports open on the firewall but we still have to turn firewall off to run it now. Someone told me that shoutcast might use some kind of gpn ports? not sure if that is the correct name for it, but some kind of hiden port that you wouldnt know about. CAn someone help me please?

thanks, gride420

[LollipopLustKil]

You need to have the base port, (in your case 8000) plus the port above it (8001) both open. Then you would have to forward those ports to the machine where the DNAS server is located.

[gride420]

Hey guys I am sorry i hit submit and it never took and redirected me back, but i guess i worked in the background. I never meant to post 3 times. Anyways thanks for the information.

[jackherer]

Shoutcast uses standard tcp ports, nothing wierd about it. Opening ports will only work if the firewall is software and sitting on the machine that is running shoutcast, if the firewall is a hardware device or is installed on another machine that the one running shoutcast then you would have to do as LollipopLustKil says and forward the port to the machine running sc.

Although i would like to point out that it is a comon mistake that people think you need to open/forward 2 ports e.g. 8000 and 8001 to allow shoutcast connections through a firewall. You do not, you only need to open the 8001 port if you want to receive a connection from a source on the internet i.e. you want to relay a stream or receive a source connection from a remote pc. If your source is behind the same firewall as your sc server then you only need to open 8000.

[DJ AmPs]

Originally posted by gride420
Hey guys I am sorry i hit submit and it never took and redirected me back, but i guess i worked in the background. I never meant to post 3 times. Anyways thanks for the information.

I've had that happen before as well. It's a bug in Vbulletin -- once I replied the same post like 20 times in less than 10 seconds. The flood control obviously doesn't work in this case.

[DJHotIce]

I've had instances where flood control doesn't even work for me! YAY me because its just more posts I can use to help the world!