Cannot open any ports, they are ALL stealth.

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Cannot open any ports, they are ALL stealth.

After spending hours on end trying to open the port 25565 on my Mac and finding that it was always closed I decided to use a different port checker now if I check my ports on Shields Up! 'https://www.grc.com/x/ne.dll?bh0bkyd2' it says ALL ports are stealth no matter which I try. How can I 'un-stealth' the port 25565 and open it. On my router's homepage (BTHOMEHUB3 (A)) it says I have set up the port correctly and that it has been applied. Any help would be greatly apprieciated.

iMac (27-inch Mid 2010), Mac OS X (10.7.5)

Posted on Dec 1, 2012 8:41 AM

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Linc Davis

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Dec 1, 2012 1:28 PM in response to Miint

I assume you're trying to get a process to listen on that port. If so, deactivate the built-in firewall and any third-party firewall you may have installed. If your router has a firewall, deactivate that too.

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Miint Author

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Dec 1, 2012 3:36 PM in response to Linc Davis

I tryied DMZ ' ing my computer via my router and it showed many of the ports as open yet the port which I want was still 'stealthed'.

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Linc Davis

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Dec 1, 2012 3:53 PM in response to Miint

All that means is that the port returns no response to a connection attempt. That happens because some kind of firewall is blocking it. See my previous comment.

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