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Why couldn't he reach port 5337 if the firewall was turned off? Doesn't make sense.
by martinp 16y ago
Why couldn't he reach port 5337 if the firewall was turned off? Doesn't make sense.
- teilo 16y agoProbably because he forgot to open that port in his EC2 security group. Machines belong to security groups, and security groups define which ports have access to the outside world - which is why you don't need the Windows firewall at all when running an EC2 instance.
- jhrobert 16y agoTrue. Maybe he assumed that when the firewall was off, everything was blocked (forgetting about the remote desktop).
- davewiner 16y agoIt's a good question why 5337 wasn't accessible, but it wasn't. That's why I was clicking around looking for reasons when the OS asked this question (which I answered too quickly without thinking). No matter, I've already provisioned a new server to take its place, and terminated the old one.