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Koray Tugay
Koray Tugay

Reputation: 23820

How can I connect to a port on Windows 7?

I am trying to make a simple chat application.

I asked my friend to install the application on his Windows 7 laptop.

Let say his public ip address is: 500.500.500

My chat program starts listening to port on 10007. In his computer I tried

telnet localhost 10007 then sent some text, and the text was seen in the chat application.

But when I tried telnet 500.500.500 10007 from my computer, telnet: Could not open connection to the host, on port 10007

I tried disabling both my firewall and his and also I have opened port following the guide here:http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/how-to-open-a-port-in-the-windows-7-firewall.html

What can it be that I am missing?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 618

Answers (1)

T McKeown
T McKeown

Reputation: 12857

his public address on the internet is actually the address of his provider (e.g cable modem/DSL), you would need to configure HIS router to forward port 10007 to his local/private IP address for this to work.

Upvotes: 1

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