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IPod/IPhone Remote and the Vista firewall.

Just downloaded the Remote application for my IPod touch, but it didn't work… boo!

First thought was the firewall, however ITunes was already listed there so I thought it may be something else. Regardless I turned the firewall off and it worked fine. Running netstat –a from PowerShell (or a command line if you prefer) showed me what ports were in use. The only ones that looked suspicious, given what I knew about registered devices on my wireless network, was communications to my machine from 192.168.0.5 via port 3689.

FileSystem C:\ [1#]> netstat –a

Active Connections
Proto Local Address Foreign Address State

….

TCP 192.168.0.3:3689 192.168.0.5:49434 ESTABLISHED
TCP 192.168.0.3:3689 192.168.0.5:49435 ESTABLISHED
TCP 192.168.0.3:3689 192.168.0.5:49436 ESTABLISHED
TCP 192.168.0.3:3689 192.168.0.5:49437 ESTABLISHED
TCP 192.168.0.3:3689 192.168.0.5:49438 ESTABLISHED
TCP 192.168.0.3:3689 192.168.0.5:49439 ESTABLISHED

Adding an exception for that port fixed the issue:

Tuesday, July 15, 2008 8:02:21 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00) #     Comments [0] |