Q. Which ports does Rosetta@Home need open?


A. Port 80 (http) is used for most communications with the project servers. Port 443 (https) is used if the password is being exchanged . Ports 1043 and 31416 are used for local control as well as for remote control of a BOINC client. 1043 is preferred and 31416 is a fall back. Unless you are RPC'ing over the Internet don't open 1043 and 31416 in your non-local firewall specifically for BOINC.

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What if I don't know how to open or close a port... any ideas? zman80214@yahoo.com

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What if I don't know how to open or close a port... any ideas? zman80214@yahoo.com

In general, no messing with ports is required. It's just information for you about how it works.

Have you downloaded and installed BOINC?
Have you been able to connect to Rosetta?
If either is no, please let us know what messages you see when something fails.

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..."people must wonder why I asked about firewall info, when the question was about ports"

I just noticed zero credits, and wanted them to know that they generally don't need to worry about ports beforehand, just connect. And knew that any messages and more details about their current state would be helpful to anyone trying to provide assistence.

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Q. Which ports does Rosetta@Home need open?


A. Port 80 (http) is used for most communications with the project servers. Port 443 (https) is used if the password is being exchanged . Ports 1043 and 31416 are used for local control as well as for remote control of a BOINC client. 1043 is preferred and 31416 is a fall back. Unless you are RPC'ing over the Internet don't open 1043 and 31416 in your non-local firewall specifically for BOINC.

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What if I don't know how to open or close a port... any ideas? zman80214@yahoo.com

You shouldn't need to. Port 80 is the same port used by every single web browser out there, so if you can read and post here, it's already open.

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You can try using a guide at portforward.com.
I think they have a program that can forward automatically, called PortTrigger (think it costs money though).
You can also launch a command prompt. type "ipconfig" then enter your default gateway's adress into your browser, and it should connect you to your router.

Then again it really sounds like a firewall is messing up your connection.

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well, some of the info in the FAQ is wrong lol, https isn't used for password exchange (the password isn't even sent, only a hash of the password, use Ethereal and see for yourself)

unless the firewall is really stupid, or badly configured you shouldn't need to open any ports to connect to the project servers, and you should be prompted by your firewall to allow boinc.exe to listen on port 1043/31416 (depending which version of BOINC you're using)
it might prompt you to allow boinc to access the internet (but this is a program level thing, rather than a port level thing)

all communication to the project is initiated from your client, so no ports need to be open, because BOINC doesn't need to listen for incomming connectons (except from the manager, but that's different)

i know that doesn't solve the problem, but i'm trying to find out why his firewall is behaving badly, or isn't prompting him for access: the root cause, rather than the symptom(s)

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Here's a Quote from Rom Walton NOTE: the date of this post means he's commenting on versions of boinc that used 1043 and then 31416 as secondary, rather than the new versions, but it remains valid since we don't know which Boinc CC is being used.
tony

BOINC Manager needs to be able to open outbound connections to either 1043 or 31416.

BOINC Screensaver needs to be able to open outbound connections to either 1043 or 31416.

BOINC needs to open an inbound connection to either 1043 or 31416, and an outbound connection to port 80 for downloads and uploads of workunits, results, and science packages.

Here's a Quote from Rom Walton NOTE: the date of this post means he's commenting on versions of boinc that used 1043 and then 31416 as secondary, rather than the new versions, but it remains valid since we don't know which Boinc CC is being used.
tony

BOINC Manager needs to be able to open outbound connections to either 1043 or 31416.

BOINC Screensaver needs to be able to open outbound connections to either 1043 or 31416.

BOINC needs to open an inbound connection to either 1043 or 31416, and an outbound connection to port 80 for downloads and uploads of workunits, results, and science packages.

The advice provided by Tony above is correct. Many of you have assumed that everyone is running the current version of the BOINC client, or that they are all running the same operating system. THe FAQ was written to a broader audience than BOINC 4.5.9 and Windows-XP.

Many people have to open ports manually or have them opened by a system admin if they are behind a firewall. The information is to document all the possibilities so people can set up a range of different systems.

Just as an example BOINC 5.2.13 on the Mac did not ask about ports, nor did it open them by itself. But it also did not run projects until this had been done manually. I suspect the same is true of Linux.

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