hello experts,
I want to ask you..what is kind of software help to scan port for remote server. I have a game server host at home...and i want to know if i can scan my game server port from outside. Note: I have a game server IP, but i don't know which port.... Can someone help with this.. thanks
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If the machine you are connecting from has direct access to the internet, you can go to a site like www.grc.com and they will detect your IP and run scans against you. If you are protected by a router or firewall sites like that will only scan the outermost device, the one directly connected to the internet.
If you have another machine on the same network, you could use something like nmap to scan for open ports - www.insecure.org/nmap
Are you trying to determine which port to open for your game server? If yes, then what you need to do is to connect to your Game server locally using your game client. At the same time, launch a command prompt and type netstat -n.
You should be able to see something like this: (EXAMPLE)
Proto Local Address Foreign Address State
TCP 10.0.0.2:4723 10.0.0.1:3333 ESTABLISHED
The 10.0.0.2 is your game client ip and 10.0.0.1 will be the game server and the 3333 is the port.
Usually game server will have more than 1 port open, one is for the authetication, the other is for transmission control
Hope this helps.
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by: rshooper76Posted on 2005-09-17 at 10:12:04ID: 14904499
You should be able to determine what port the game sever uses from the documentation for the game itself. They will providde this information to you so you can either open the ports on your firewall or forward the ports. If you let me know what game it is I can try to find out this information myself.