firewall workaround?

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firewall workaround?

Trying to send iTunes (and spotify via airfoil) to a/v receive via AX. Computer hosting iTunes/spotify/airfoil has symantec protection deployed by my employer, so I have no ability to modify firewall rules - although I have admin privs on the machine, so I can control Windows firewall.

Is there any feasible configuation that will make this work? Airport utility, iTunes, airfoil are all able to see AX - none are able to send audio or configure it.

airport express-OTHER, Windows XP, linksys wrt160n router ipad2

Posted on Dec 7, 2011 1:35 PM

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Tesserax

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Dec 7, 2011 1:53 PM in response to capeporpoise

Is there any feasible configuation that will make this work? Airport utility, iTunes, airfoil are all able to see AX - none are able to send audio or configure it.

The AirPort Utility requires Bonjour to access the base station. Bonjour, in turn, relies on the Multicast DNS (mDNS) protocol to communicate. This protocol requires UDP port 5353 to be open on the computer's software firewall.

iTunes, which relies on AirPlay/AirTunes to stream, uses additional ports. AirPlay/AirTunes, in turn, is based on the ROAP protocol. I would suggest trying the following ports:

Add TCP 443 for SSL
Add TCP/UDP 554 for RTSP
Add TCP 3689 for DAAP
Add TCP 5000, 6000, and 6001 for ROAP
Add TCP 5297 for Bonjour
Add TCP/UDP 5298 for Bonjour
Add UDP 5353 for Airport discovery
Add TCP/UDP 7070 for RTSP
Add TCP 8000-8999 for iTunes radio streams
Add TCP 42000-42999 for iTunes radio streams

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