[Freeswitch-users] freeswtich request on port 4242?

[Steven Ayre]

Oh, and both IP and port are hardcoded in the source code.


On 24 March 2014 00:58, Steven Ayre <steveayre at gmail.com> wrote:

> It's FreeSWITCH trying to automatically detect the ${local_ipv4}
> and ${local_ipv6} values.
>
> It does this by attempting to send a packet to an IP it knows will have to
> go over the Internet and seeing which local IP the packet would leave the
> machine from. That means if you have multiple IPs assigned to your machine
> it'll know which one will send via the default gateway. That handles the
> simple single-homed case anyway.
>
> It doesn't really matter whether NAT happens or not, it works just as well
> if your machine is listening on the public IP natively.
>
> It's just trying to auto-detect what IP you're most likely to be reachable
> on.
>
> Try a packet trace... from memory it only creates the socket, doesn't
> actually send the packet (?). But I may be wrong there.
>
> -Steve
>
>
> On 23 March 2014 02:32, Terry Barnum <terry at digital-outpost.com> wrote:
>
>> While playing with freeswitch yesterday, Little Snitch reported
>> that freeswitch immediately upon launch tries to establish a connection
>> to 82.45.148.209 and 2001:503:ba3e::2:30 on port 4242.
>>
>> A whois shows the ipv4 to be from Telewest Broadband in the UK.
>>
>> The only port 4242 setting I find is in
>>  conf/autoload_configs/event_multicast.conf.xml but for 225.1.1.1.
>>
>> Blocking the connection prevents sofia from registering with flowroute so
>> I'm curious what it is. I couldn't find any relevant search results.
>>
>> FreeSWITCH Version 1.5.11b+git~20140301T003717Z~f2331de68b~64bit (git
>> f2331de 2014-03-01 00:37:17Z 64bit)
>>
>> Thanks,
>> -Terry
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