Question How to get discord to work?

[Red Squirrel]

I'm trying to get Discord voice chat to work and it just says no route to host when I try to connect to a friend.

Guessing their are port forwards I need to do but can't find much info, other than port 40,000 to 65535 UDP. What the hell why so many ports? That's sloppy. I am already using some of those for other things. I went ahead and did it anyway.. still no go.

Anything else I can try? Is there any outgoing ports I need as well?

 

[DaaQ]

Are you using a laptop or desktop?
what sound solution?
Does any other games or apps have voice services that work properly?

 

[Red Squirrel]

Desktop. Pfsense firewall.

It's not a sound issue, I can't connect period. I just get an error "no route" when I try to start a call.

 

[DaaQ]

Check discord forums?
I'm sorry I will be no help in regards to Pfsense.

 

[mxnerd]

You probably just have to move those ports already in use.

https://twitter.com/x/status/793626299617120256

https://www.reddit.com/r/discordapp/comments/3k3ux1/_/cyyd62b

Do you have geoip filtering feature on in pfsense?

UDP Firewall Rules for discord client | Ubiquiti Community

I have some issues with a software called discors (https://discordapp.com) that is used by my son talking and chatting with friends when playing internet

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And the Windows Firewall?

or could be DNS error

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[Red Squirrel]

No geoblocking setup that I know of. Forgot about Windows firewall though, just added a rule to allow UDP ports 40,000-65535 which is the only info I found for Discord.

Wait I need to forward tcp 443 too? Crap I'm already using that for something else already on another machine, does it have to be that port? Is there a way to change it to something else? My text chat is working though... it's the voice that's not. It fails to establish the call.

DNS is working fine, unless there's some weird oddity where it requires a specific server, I will try to change to Google on that machine and see.

I also read something about requiring NAT traversal? I don't know what that is but I hope it's not upnp since that is a security nightmare, I'm not touching that with a 10 foot pole. I don't want apps being able to open ports at will.

With all these port forwards needed I guess you're screwed if you want to use it on more than one machine? Just seems like such a terrible design to require so many port forwards.

With the Windows firewall changes I will test again tonight with my friend.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I seem to have gotten it to work. I made a "gaming" vlan that has less restrictions but it cut off from the rest of my network. I've run into stuff like this with games before, it seems they don't consider NAT or security when they design these things. So basically I just had to forward all those UDP ports. There must have been a rule somewhere blocking something on the other vlan. Just hope I don't run into something that requires that since all those ports are tied up for that machine now.

 

[mxnerd]

I think it's because Discord let every member to create his own server and channels, also needs to let them to join/talk to each other. That creates the necessity of so many ports must be open.