Sometimes you need to gain access to a remote Serendipity Blackmagic or Megarip server. Usually there is a firewall between you and the server so ports need to be either opened or forwarded on the firewall / router.
To help system administrators with this, here is a list of ports used by our products.
Server
9100/tcp main Serendipity Client connection port
9100/udp listens to broadcasts so Serendipity Client can list available servers
9103/tcp Serendipity Client connects here to retrieve thumbnails
Slave server
9103/tcp server connects here and submits jobs
9103/udp listens to broadcasts so the server can enumerate available slave servers
Serendipity Client
Serendipity Client connects to port 9100/tcp on the server to execute commands
Serendipity Client connects to port 9103/tcp on the server to retrieve job thumbnails
So in order to allow access to a Serendipity Blackmagic or Megarip server from a remote client, ports 9100/tcp and 9103/tcp will need to be forwarded from the router to the computer the server is running on.
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If you face problems with dying BM clients,
it is always a good idea to set the server/client communication in the /etc/ss.conf to port 9104 or something to become more stable.
Believe it works…
All commnunication running on port 9100 really has to be avoided wherever possible. Split communication ports wherever possible.
It really helps. More than 3 maschines/nodes communicating via the same 9100 port are not an adavantage…
Greetings from Duesseldorf