Wierd firewall messages on game ports
whenever i play a game on on the internet and then close it, my firewall goes crazy and starts getting attempts to connect on my comp on whatever the game port was. anybody know why that is, i usually just ignore it. also, this time the computer trying to connect was going to port 6112(starcraft) from port 1065(syscomlan). what was it doing from port 1065 for? here are the fw logs for these.
here is a normal one:
Inbound UDP packet
Local address,service is (mycomp(192.168.0.138),6112)
Remote address,service is (69.157.137.105,6112)
Process name is "N/A"
here is the one on port 1065:
Inbound UDP packet
Local address,service is (mycomp(192.168.0.138),6112)
Remote address,service is (24.125.123.50,1065)
Process name is "N/A"
apparently starcraft only uses port 6112(according to blizzard and battle.net), so why is this dude connecting from 1065? all the port databases say thats for syscomlan whats that?
btw: im running windows xp home, norton firewall 2003, and i was playing starcraft at the time
Re: Wierd firewall messages on game ports
Quote:
Originally posted here by Phonedog911
whenever i play a game on on the internet and then close it, my firewall goes crazy and starts getting attempts to connect on my comp on whatever the game port was. anybody know why that is, i usually just ignore it. also, this time the computer trying to connect was going to port 6112(starcraft) from port 1065(syscomlan). what was it doing from port 1065 for? here are the fw logs for these.
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apparently starcraft only uses port 6112(according to blizzard and battle.net), so why is this dude connecting from 1065?
btw: im running windows xp home, norton firewall 2003, and i was playing starcraft at the time
It's quite possible that there is a legitimate reason for the difference in port. I can NAT outbound UDP/6112 to another address and still play on Battle.net, as there is no requirement that the source port be 6112 (to my knowledge and experience anyway), only that the destination port is 6112. Possibly it is some kind of third-party hack or cheat, or some other issue. I could not google anything up using various search terms. Observe the behaviour more, and determine if it is abnormal, or if a sizeable portion of users are exhibiting these symptoms, and that should answer your question about whether or not it is related to the game or the Operating System.
Since a moderator is going to mention it to you, I'll let you know in advance: please X out any IP addresses you post here. You may wish to edit your post to reflect that.