Ports to Open for the Launcher?

Moonraker
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ZOS posted a Support kb article with ports to open on the router for the ESO client (game)
WHAT PORTS DO I NEED TO OPEN TO ACCESS THE GAME?
Updated 04/04/2014 04:43 PM Published 02/15/2013 07:46 PM
To best access The Elder Scrolls Online, players should configure their routers to open the following outbound ports:

TCP / UDP Ports 24100 through 24131
TCP / UDP Ports 24500 through 24507
What I think would be useful is the ports required for the actual Launcher (PC =Bethesda.net_Launcher) used for the install and updates.

I have asked for these specifically for the Launcher but got no response except for a copy/ paste of the above.

I know they are different and the Launcher uses some ports for the newsfeed and other browser stuff. But it also opens ports to CDN sites like Akamai which I assume is for the install and download data. Here are the ones I can see currently when I first launch the Launcher (Mac but essentially the same thing) and it is idle.
192.168.1.10:57715->ec2-54-243-115-56.compute-1.amazonaws.com:http
192.168.1.10:57927->server-54-239-158-239.cdg51.r.cloudfront.net:http

192.168.1.10:57940->a23-200-86-217.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com:http
192.168.1.10:57941->a23-200-86-217.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com:http
192.168.1.10:57926->ec2-54-217-220-128.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com:http
192.168.1.10:57937->a23-200-86-217.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com:http
192.168.1.10:57940->a23-200-86-217.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com:http
192.168.1.10:57936->a23-200-86-217.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com:http
The first two are probably newsfeed or browser related, not sure. But the others appear to be data related.

The port range even from this small sample is very different from the ESO client ranges.

If anyone from ZOS can get those details it may help with some of the Launcher issues and especially for those asking college tech etc. to open up port access.
Edited by Moonraker on April 4, 2014 11:12PM
  • IronbarSinister
    IronbarSinister
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    Aren't you behind a firewall with stateful packet inspection?

    SPI means: IP traffic that originates on the secure side of the firewall is guaranteed a path back in from the non-secure side, regardless of access-list restrictions.

    Sounds like maybe your campus has access-list restrictions on outbound-originated traffic too, which is a bummer. :\
  • Moonraker
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    Aren't you behind a firewall with stateful packet inspection?

    SPI means: IP traffic that originates on the secure side of the firewall is guaranteed a path back in from the non-secure side, regardless of access-list restrictions.

    Sounds like maybe your campus has access-list restrictions on outbound-originated traffic too, which is a bummer. :\
    Honestly no idea ;) I'll have to check as I haven't needed to open my ports yet though I will as I don't have bad Launcher issues as some only sometimes looping as last update etc.

    It's more to have a list of port ranges like they posted for the game but for the Launcher as some still have problems. And it appears to use different ports. it is useful to give to a college tech for instance, it's not so much for me personally. Opening ports on personal router has fixed it for some I have seen for the game.
  • RSram
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    The launcher uses port HTTP, to get the news.

    If you are using windows OS you can do the following command to verify my results.

    STEP 1:
    First you need to get the Process ID (PID) of the ESO launcher.
    Open a command prompt on your computer and type: tasklist /SVC
    Scroll through the list until you find Bethesda.net_Launcher.exe in the left most column. In the example below the PID value is 8512, but yours may be different.
    Image Name                    PID      Services
    ============================================
    Bethesda.net_Launcher.exe     8512      N/A
    

    STEP 2:

    You are now going to use the PID to determine what ports the ESO launcher is using. In the command prompt type:
    netstat -ao
    Once the list is created, you can search for the PID in the list in the right most column). You should see something similar as I have pasted here, but your Foreign Address and PID may be different.
    Proto Local Address   Foreign Address       State         PID
    ---------------------------------------------------------------
    TCP   10.0.0.2:64136  198.20.198.103:http   ESTABLISHED   8512
    TCP   10.0.0.2:64126  198.20.198.100:http   ESTABLISHED   8512
    TCP   10.0.0.2:64136  198.20.198.103:http   ESTABLISHED   8512
    
    Note that after the launcher loads the ESO.exe program, the ESO program doesn't use any ports until you actually log on to the ESO server.

    Hope this helps.
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