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VandM
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Nov 02, 2017
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Port Forwarding

I am having trouble portforwarding two ports, 443 and 8245 for no-ip.com for remote camera viewing. The port check tool says connection refused. I have portforwarded other ports with no problem, but these do not work. Thanks
  • Hi VandM,

     

    If the ports are already open in port forwarding, you have to check with ISP to make sure those ports are not blocked from there end.

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  • > I am having trouble portforwarding two ports, 443 and 8245 for
    > no-ip.com for remote camera viewing.

       With my weak psychic powers, I can't see the port-forwarding rules
    which you have specified for the (unspecified) camera.  I also know
    nothing about this camera, so I have no idea if ports 443 and/or 8245
    are reasonable.  Port 443 is the standard one for a secure web server.
    According to:
          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_TCP_and_UDP_port_numbers
    port 8245 is used for "Dynamic DNS for at least No-IP and DyDNS".
    Neither of these is obviously associated with an IP camera.

       If all you're trying to do is get DDNS working, then why, exactly, do
    you believe that you need to do any port forwarding?  Depending on the
    (unspecified) camera, you might need to do some port forwarding to be
    able to talk to it from the outside world, but that has little to do
    with DDNS configuration.

    > [...] The port check tool says connection refused. [...]

       Which "The port check tool"?  Normally, "connection refused" means
    that you have made contact with the remote system, but there's no server
    running there which is listening at the specified port number.  If
    you're not running a secure web server on the target system, then that
    would explain that result for port 443.  Similarly, I doubt that you're
    running a DDNS server on anything, which would explain that result for
    port 8245.

       You seem (to me) not to know what you're doing.  It might help if you
    started at the beginning, and explained what you're actually trying to
    do, rather than asking what's wrong with your attempt to implement some
    "solution" to whatever problem you think that you have.

    • TheEther's avatar
      TheEther
      Guru
      I will go even further and advise the OP to not open any ports to allow Internet access to an IP camera. It's just too risky.

      A better bet is to set up an inbound VPN, which is much more secure.
  • JamesGL's avatar
    JamesGL
    NETGEAR Employee Retired

    Hi VandM,

     

    If the ports are already open in port forwarding, you have to check with ISP to make sure those ports are not blocked from there end.

    • JamesGL's avatar
      JamesGL
      NETGEAR Employee Retired

      Hi VandM,

       

      We’d greatly appreciate hearing your feedback letting us know if you need further assistance.