iChat and Bonjour port 5298

a11en · 01-10-2006, 10:47 PM

Hi guys!

Got a weird one for you: I am trying to enable Bonjour in iChat, and I can't seem to get it working with Flying Buttress (aka Brickhouse)... I have allowed the proper ports, but it appears that iChat only checks the system firewall prefs to see if you've allowed ichatBonjour??

Has anyone else had this problem?

-Allen

a11en · 01-12-2006, 02:28 AM

Ok, a small update... I'll update this if I can get this working. Here's my suspicion: Apple isn't actually *trying* out the bonjour port at all... it's merely looking at the firewall settings for Apple's firewall.

In the processes of trying to fix some connectivity issues, I deinstalled brickhouse/flyingbutress and I clicked the ichat/bonjour pref in the apple-firewall... ichat worked fine.

Then, I installed the startupscript and filters for flyingbutress again... effectively reinstalling the firewall (rules in ipfw via the brickhouse/flyingbutress gui), and iChat still seems to be working with bonjour.

[Of course I previously had put rules in brickhouse for allowing bonjour and ichat etc. but kept getting the warning that bonjour wasn't enabled in sharing.prefs from ichat... ugh.]

Seems to work now. I'll let you know in a couple days if it's still working.

01-10-2006, 10:47 PM	#1
a11en Triple-A Player Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 71	iChat and Bonjour port 5298 Hi guys! Got a weird one for you: I am trying to enable Bonjour in iChat, and I can't seem to get it working with Flying Buttress (aka Brickhouse)... I have allowed the proper ports, but it appears that iChat only checks the system firewall prefs to see if you've allowed ichatBonjour?? Has anyone else had this problem? -Allen

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01-12-2006, 02:28 AM	#2
a11en Triple-A Player Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 71	Ok, a small update... I'll update this if I can get this working. Here's my suspicion: Apple isn't actually trying out the bonjour port at all... it's merely looking at the firewall settings for Apple's firewall. In the processes of trying to fix some connectivity issues, I deinstalled brickhouse/flyingbutress and I clicked the ichat/bonjour pref in the apple-firewall... ichat worked fine. Then, I installed the startupscript and filters for flyingbutress again... effectively reinstalling the firewall (rules in ipfw via the brickhouse/flyingbutress gui), and iChat still seems to be working with bonjour. [Of course I previously had put rules in brickhouse for allowing bonjour and ichat etc. but kept getting the warning that bonjour wasn't enabled in sharing.prefs from ichat... ugh.] Seems to work now. I'll let you know in a couple days if it's still working.