What port does aim use?

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December 8, 2003 at 9:38 pm #11653

Mr.Emoticon
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Hey guys, I would like to know what port aim uses to chat, and what it uses to send files over specifically. Need to setup some stuff in my router and firewall.

thx
Mr.E

December 8, 2003 at 11:16 pm #87609

slackertildeath
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The ports AIM uses are-

Direct Connect: 4443
File Transfer and Chat: 5190

December 9, 2003 at 4:55 am #87608

alana0601
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i need to do that too but i dont know how you go about doing that. can someone help me??

December 12, 2003 at 6:01 am #87612

Mr.Emoticon
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Does anyone know the ports used by Yahoo messenger?

thx

December 12, 2003 at 6:18 am #87604

Sathallrin
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Yahoo uses port: 5050

December 31, 2003 at 6:47 am #87611

Mr.Emoticon
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i tired blockin 5050 to see what whould happen and yahoo still logs on!

December 31, 2003 at 9:53 am #87614

MaxPayne
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In the new AIM beta what’s the port that the video uses? If it complains about a firewall, Does that mean that I might need to foward the ports on my router? This seems to be the only problem with AIM. Ideas? Thanks and if possible do you think that you could give me a hand if by IMing me at “LikeMercury2Hell” Thanks in advance.

December 31, 2003 at 1:33 pm #87607

DJHyperbyte
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quote:Originally posted by Mr.Emoticon

i tired blockin 5050 to see what whould happen and yahoo still logs on!

If you block any outgoing TCP/IP connections to *.yahoo.com on port 5050, then Yahoo shouldn’t be able to log on. Or maybe it just picks another server/port then? 🙂

December 31, 2003 at 4:55 pm #87603

Sathallrin
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Yup.. port 5050 is the port it connects to on the yahoo servers (*.yahoo.com or whatever it is). Yahoo uses a range of ports to connect out to from your computer when signing on. I tested it and it seemed to be using between port 1110 and 1119 on my computer… this could be completly random based on your computer, Im not sure exactly what ports it does use.

December 31, 2003 at 8:49 pm #87606

DJHyperbyte
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quote:Originally posted by Sathallrin

Yahoo uses a range of ports to connect out to from your computer when signing on. I tested it and it seemed to be using between port 1110 and 1119 on my computer… this could be completly random based on your computer

Actually, computer programs generally do not (and can not) determine what port to use for outgoing connections. Outgoing ports have a random number that is decided, assigned and handled by the operating system.

January 1, 2004 at 1:22 am #87605

Zlink123
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To go even further into the subject of the particulars of ports that DJ previously explained, when a program on your computer connects to a port (say 80 for HTTP) it connects to that port on the Host computer (the HTTP Server), or the computer that you are connecting to. The port used on your computer to connect to the recieving computer is a random port (like DJ said) above port 1023. So the range of possible ports used on the client is from port 1024-65536.

January 3, 2004 at 12:41 am #87610

Mr.Emoticon
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Zlink u made me really confused.

I have blocked all ranges of ports that were given above, and yet yahoo still works like a charm……..how do i bring that bastard program down in my d-link di-604 firewall/router.

Do i wanna do this in the firewall tab (i assume) or the Filters tab.

January 3, 2004 at 6:42 am #87613

MaxPayne
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Excuse me, can someone tell me what port the steaming webcam feature uses on the new 5.5.3501 beta? Thanks and would someone be able to test it out with me?
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