Hosting help.

[Hurricane]

So I recently got McAfee to open after the Service Pack IE8 problem and was very anxious to forward the ports for it. Well I did, but I can't host, apparently, still.

I have opened ports 17770-17772 on my:
-Router
-Windows Firewall
-McAfee Firewall

On McAfee I allowed all incoming and outgoing access to each bzone.exe file listed. I am twisted and confused about this and am requesting some help.

Any replies will be greatly appreciated.

-Zach.

[Zero Angel]

First of all. Try temporarily putting your computer on the DMZ (router settings). If you can host after doing this, then check your router configuration, because that's where the problem lies. Else, its probably something on your computer blocking it.

[mrtwosheds]

Quite remarkably, windows xp firewall does politely inform you that it is blocking bz2 and asks you if you want it to do this!
if you do not see this after installing bz2 then it will probably be your router blocking it.

[GSH]

There's a half dozen firewall apps (Windows firewall, Zonealarm, Kaspersky, etc), and a million (plus or minus) makes & models of routers. Some days, it seems like you can get a router free with a chinese food delivery.

The general rule of thumb is this: by default, everything will block packets, as that is the safest & most secure. You will need to recofigure most, if not all, devices in your home starting from your computer, and ending at your internet connection to allow BZ2's packets in.

-- GSH

[Wraith]

Open ports 17770 to 17774 on your modem.

[OvermindDL1]

I *really* doubt a modem blocks anything like that.
Although if anyone is using a modem with BZ2... er... get into this century?
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[Nielk1]

I think the new things are still called modems. I have a 'cable modem' and I hear my mother swearing about trying to fix some guys 'DSL Modem' a lot.

[Zero Angel]

Couple of things here

1) Modem means modulator/demodulator and refers to the process that dialup modems use to change sound (over the telephone line) into data and vice versa. A "cable modem" or "DSL modem" isnt an actual modem per-se because it doesnt do any modulating/demodulating, but people have called it that so many times (for lack of a better term) that its now acceptable to do so.

2) Modems dont block ports, they only serve data to the internet. The router/NAT is the thing that has a bunch of network ports, does wireless networking, and provides firewall services. This is the thing that you actually gotta configure, not the modem. Though some routers got modem functionality built in, most dont.

[TheJamsh]

indeed done some electronics work i see ZA...

[OvermindDL1]

What the common idiot calls a 'Cable Modem' and '(A/S)DSL Modem' and other such stupidities are actually gateways, not modems, thus the proper terms would be 'Cable Gateway' and '(A/S)DSL Gateway'.

In either case though, none of them block ports or traffic in any real way.
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[Axeminister]

I know you can set Norton to open ports for BZ2 and when you go to host it still asks if you want to allow this, but it does so behind the game so you have to alt-tab to see it. Maybe McAfee is doing that also. Check it out.