Blubster - Looks good but won't connect - P2P-Zone

petriburg · 23-03-02, 02:23 AM

In the absence of any sensible results from Morpheus, I decided to install Blubster. The presentation is nice, and it seems to be operated by people (!). Trouble is, the people don't answer e-mails, and the program just won't connect.
I'm using Win98 as o.s., and I have Zone Alarm, configured with server rights for Blubster, but the thing just sits on my desktop saying "connecting".
Anybody have any ideas about what to do? (I hope this shouldn't be in byte bits - if it should, oops, sorry!)

napho · 23-03-02, 03:14 AM

This is the advice from the blubster site.

under security settings> medium>customize settings in zone alarm you will have to specify the UDP to 41170 for incoming and outgoing. Also this will have to be done in the local zone and internet zone. Once you have done this go to configure in blubster and specify your port in the download section of the config. tab as 41170 then you will connect.

AweShucks · 23-03-02, 03:14 AM

I had a similar problem when I installed it. All I did was allow full access to the program through my firewall and after running it awhile I monitored the port traffic to find out which ones it was using. After finding this out I configured my firewall as such to allow traffic and connection.
I have since uninstalled it so I don't remember the ports to allow

At the time it had poor content because it lacked users but it seems to be picking at a rather steady pace. Sorry I can't be of much more help but I should have you going in the right direction anyway?

[EDIT]Looks as if Napho beat me too it

Millencolin · 27-03-02, 12:57 AM

I can connect, i just can't DL any songs at all!

23-03-02, 02:23 AM	#1
petriburg Registered User Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Sydney, Australia Posts: 307	Blubster - Looks good but won't connect In the absence of any sensible results from Morpheus, I decided to install Blubster. The presentation is nice, and it seems to be operated by people (!). Trouble is, the people don't answer e-mails, and the program just won't connect. I'm using Win98 as o.s., and I have Zone Alarm, configured with server rights for Blubster, but the thing just sits on my desktop saying "connecting". Anybody have any ideas about what to do? (I hope this shouldn't be in byte bits - if it should, oops, sorry!) __________________ petri "You are old, father William," the young man said, "And you hair has become very white; And yet you incessantly stand on you head - Do you think, at your age, it is right?" Lewis Carroll.

23-03-02, 03:14 AM	#3
AweShucks Just Looking Around Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Right here!!! Posts: 341	I had a similar problem when I installed it. All I did was allow full access to the program through my firewall and after running it awhile I monitored the port traffic to find out which ones it was using. After finding this out I configured my firewall as such to allow traffic and connection. I have since uninstalled it so I don't remember the ports to allow At the time it had poor content because it lacked users but it seems to be picking at a rather steady pace. Sorry I can't be of much more help but I should have you going in the right direction anyway? [EDIT]Looks as if Napho beat me too it __________________ "What country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance. Let them take arms." - Thomas Jefferson

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23-03-02, 03:14 AM	#2
napho Dawn's private genie Join Date: May 2001 Location: the Canadian wasteland Posts: 4,461	This is the advice from the blubster site. under security settings> medium>customize settings in zone alarm you will have to specify the UDP to 41170 for incoming and outgoing. Also this will have to be done in the local zone and internet zone. Once you have done this go to configure in blubster and specify your port in the download section of the config. tab as 41170 then you will connect.

27-03-02, 12:57 AM	#4
Millencolin Can you see me now? ....Good Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: New York Posts: 1,031	I can connect, i just can't DL any songs at all!