Wowza 3, Licensing Server ports needed

[kjohnson@echo360.com]

Hi!

What firewall ports need to be open for a Wowza 3 server to communicate with the Wowza License Server?

Thank you!
Kaitlyn

[rrlanham]

Kaitlyn,

Just port 80 I am pretty sure

Richard

[mistascott]

Hi,

Does anyone know the exact names of the servers we need to connect back to over port 80? Looking for the Fully Qualified Domain Names to only allow our Servers to talk out to Wowza Media

Cheers

Andrew

[rrlanham]

Andrew,

Follow these instructions to add port 80:
http://www.wowza.com/forums/content....addtionalPorts

Then restart Wowza in stand-alone (/bin/startup.bat) so you can see logs and check if Wowza was able to bind to port 80. Then you can use port 80 for playback. For RTMP you have use it explicitly, for http it is default. These are both using port 80:

rtmp://[wowza-address]:80/[app-name]

http://[wowza-address]/[app-name]/playlist.m3u8

Richard

[mistascott]

Hi Richard,

Thanks for the information, but I think I've not been clear with my question. We have port 80 already open on our firewall for streaming playback, but my question relates to the licencing mechanism of Wowza v3.

My understanding is that for our perpetual Wowza 3 licences to activate correctly on start-up, the Wowza instance needs to talk back to a licencing server. I'm assuming this licencing server(s) is hosted under the wowza.com domain like licenceserver1.wowza.com.

I'm happy to have our wowza server talk out of Port 80, but would prefer them to only have access to the licencing servers and not the world. Is there a list of licencing servers available or have I misunderstood the setup?

Cheers

[rrlanham]

Here you go:

wowzalicense1.wowzamedia.com
wowzalicense2.wowzamedia.com
wowzalicense3.wowzamedia.com
wowzalicense4.wowzamedia.com

Richard

[mistascott]

Perfect... Thanks Richard!

[videodoctor]

Can someone confirm that licensing service still only uses these four FQDNs? And that the service communicates over HTTP 80 and not HTTPS 443? (I would think it would encrypt the serial numbers for confirmation.)

[rrlanham]

It is these 4 still and they use 80

Richard