Bug 844308

Summary: telepathy-salut unusable in F17 because of the firewall
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Guillaume Desmottes <gdesmott>
Component: telepathy-salutAssignee: Brian Pepple <bdpepple>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 19CC: bdpepple, chmelarz, jkeck, liblit, mavit, nekohayo, spider
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Description Guillaume Desmottes 2012-07-30 09:20:40 UTC
It's impossible to chat with any F17 telepathy-salut user because the default firewall is blocking incoming TCP connection.

Fedora should patch Salut to request the firewall to open the port is listening to.

Comment 1 D.S. Ljungmark 2012-07-30 10:02:26 UTC
This is turning into a big issue at Guadec, making Salut unusable.

Comment 2 Brian Pepple 2012-08-30 13:18:49 UTC
I'll give this a look when I get back from vacation next week.

Comment 3 Guillaume Desmottes 2012-11-26 11:11:11 UTC
Is this still a problem with F18?

Comment 4 Jean-François Fortin Tam 2012-12-05 05:02:26 UTC
Not a problem anymore as far as I can see from some basic smoke testing. Fedora 18 comes with firewalld, and the "firewall-config" UI indicates that it allows mdns to pass through with its default "public" zone...

Comment 5 Fedora End Of Life 2013-04-03 19:14:38 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 19 development cycle.
Changing version to '19'.

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Comment 6 Peter Oliver 2013-07-09 14:03:54 UTC
(In reply to Jean-François Fortin Tam from comment #4)
> Not a problem anymore as far as I can see from some basic smoke testing.
> Fedora 18 comes with firewalld, and the "firewall-config" UI indicates that
> it allows mdns to pass through with its default "public" zone...

I wasn't able to initiate chats without also opening port 5298/tcp (named "presence" in /etc/services) on the receiving end.

Comment 7 Peter Oliver 2013-08-25 16:08:02 UTC
*** Bug 995014 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8 Peter Oliver 2013-09-18 16:13:33 UTC
Created attachment 799475 [details]
FirewallD service description

I did a bit more digging, and port 5298 is indeed the default, but if this and 5299 are already in use, a random port is selected instead (http://cgit.freedesktop.org/wocky/tree/wocky/wocky-meta-porter.c?id=779eac498ae44c0e4cb581ae73edfe2d84081673#n1129).  So, opening port 5298 would work most of the time for most people, but not all.

Anyway, attached is a file which if installed in /usr/lib/firewalld/services/, will add an option to firewall-config to open these ports.  I guess this is better than nothing.

Comment 9 Zdenek Chmelar 2013-10-14 18:21:57 UTC
I confirm the solution provided above works. Could it be pushed to default configuration (to add this file under firewall services and enable it) so it works our of the box in Fedora 20? I just upgraded to F20 and there is still the need to update firewall manually with above provided solution.

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Comment 11 Peter Oliver 2015-01-25 14:35:48 UTC
I believe that these ports are open by default on Fedora 21 Workstation.