Port Forwarding Issues

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Hello all,

 

I am having issues with Azureus and NIS.  For some reason I go into the program control and set up custom rules for Azureus but as soon as the application is reopened it reverts back to its generic rule.  Which basically allows all communication.  Could anybody help me out on what I am doing wrong.

 

Thanks

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Are you behind a hardware firewall? That’s what needs to be port forwarded.

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Does the generic rule work?

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Sorry guys I meant opening ports not forwarding them.  And yes the generic rule does work fine, but I would like to tighten up the security by only allowing data communcation download/upload through one port.  I set everything up under program control, and it stays until the bittorrent application is relaunched.  Then I lose all my settings. 

 

Sorry for not explaning this well.  

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Ok but are you behind a hardware firewall?

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Yes I am and have had it setup for years.....

 

Does that effect the ability to customize NIS 2009?

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Any help would be greatly appreciated.  I had zonealarm in the past and never had this problem.

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If your behind a hardware firewall then you need to port forward that not NIS. This is what I do for uTorrent. The Port Forward site tells you how.

Message Edited by Dieselman743 on 12-12-2008 03:39 AM

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I guess I need to make a new thread since I described my orginal problem wrong.  I am just trying to open a port under program control in NIS.  I have already port forwarded on the router side but can’t get NIS to keep a specified port open.  Not all ports just 1 specified port.  I customize the setting in my bittorrent client but norton automatically switched everything to allow on program relaunch.

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You can configure Firewall to allow or block communication on specific port. Go to Firewall settings and create a new general rule to allow a specific port. You can customize the settings to even add range of IP addresses to be allowed and many other options. Place that rule on top in the rules list so that it has highest precedence. If you want to use that specific port for a particular application, make sure that the application has internet access enabled in Norton Internet Security Program Control.

 

For detailed steps on creating firewall rule, read the following article:

 

Creating a new firewall rule in Norton Internet Security 2009

 

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I knew you could make a general firewall rule which does work, but does that mean that all other ports are being used as well.  It just seems like you lose some security by not being able to restrict a certain program.  What do you guys think?

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If you port forwarded your router then you do not need to port forward NIS.

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Diesel no offense buddy but did you read my other posts?  I am not trying to port forward.  It looks like Norton does not offer TRUE program control.

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Sorry guess I miss read it but you do not need specific rule any ways since you have a router. Simply allowing it is fine. I just made a custom "outgoing" only rule for Frostwire and click apply then closed out NIS. Went back in and my custom rule was still there. If you download Process Explorer, a program no pc should be without, you will see  that Azureus is only using that 1 port that is forwarded on your router. I just did it for Utorrent. uTorrent is only port forwarded in my hardware firewall to port 44755 and it is allowed in NIS. After launching uTorrent I look in Process Explorer and that only port uTorrent is using it 44755.

 

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx
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Hi bulldog12,

 

Apologies for not understanding you.

 

Norton Internet Security does offer true program control. I should have mentioned this in my first post in this thread.

 

Here is how you can do it:

 

1. Go to Internet Settings in NIS.

2. Click Configure next to Program Control.

3. In the program list, select the program for which you want to allow or block a specific port, and then click Modify.

4. You can see the Program rules listed for that particular program. By default, 2 program rules are listed for any program which has Internet Access enable; first for TCP & UDP and second only for TCP. Select the rule and click Modify.

5. Now you can customize the Internet access for that specific program. If you want to specify a particular port to allow or block, you can do that in Communication tab.

 

I think this is what you were looking for.

 

--Vinod