Port Forwarding

[f4Gg0t_43]

I can't seem to get this to work..

-blue = my ip
-green = forwarded port
-red = my local ip

[bad_brain]

um, is a service listening on that port? check with netstat -an

[Gogeta70]

I find that with my router i can't do '3460 to 3460' i have to do '3460 to 3461' for it to work. Try that.

[leetnigga]

I may be missing something here, but since when do we ping ports?

[bad_brain]

right, sending icmp packets to a service will not show if it is available or not, and there isn't even a host:port syntax for ping, so trying to ping a specific port will always fail.
check if the service is listening via netstat and then telnet to that port on the public IP...

[ayu]

I may be missing something here, but since when do we ping ports?

We aren't supposed to write one liners, but .. <3

[f4Gg0t_43]

Okay sorry I didn't know that you couldn't ping ports, I just used that because I thought it would be easier then explaining my specific problem with port forwarding. Anyways, I started the service and did netstat -an and it came back with TCP 0.0.0.0:3460 0.0.0.0 LISTENING. I don't know if that's right or not. I thought it would be either 127.0.0.1, or 192.168.1.1.

Anyway, I have ports 3459-3461 forwarded (just to make sure) and I tried telnet myip 3460, and it just sat there connecting for like 5 minutes and then says Could not open connection to the host, on port 3460: Connect failed. So I tried telnet 192.168.1.1 3460 and it said the same thing.

[Lundis]

I'm not sure if this is the same for all routers and stuff out there, but I can't connect to apps on my own comp using my external and internal IP. Instead I have to use 127.0.0.1.... You should try that, then have someone else check if your port is forwarded properly.