ANSWERED Port Forward check=red

[BizitRock 0]

I am new to all this.  At first I forwarded a port and told utorrent to use it, I would check it periodically and it would be green.  All good.  Today it was red.  So I tried another port.  Red.  How can I fix this so no one is listening in on me?

 

[Staff 10014]

Hello,

 

we confirm the problem. The port checker in several cases returns, wrongly, a red token. It's a false positive. An investigation will start soon to fix the problem. At the moment just make sure, as usual, that your remotely forwarded ports are closed on your router. Since you had green tokens until recently, most probably you have nothing to be worried about.

 

Kind regards

[BizitRock 0]

Well I must confess I looked at "open" ports on my router and saw nothing, so I assume I am OK there.  I will continue as normal.  Thank you for your fast reply. 

[NaDre 157]

For a way that you can check for yourself whether port forwarding is working for a particular torrent client instance, see the sections "A Very Active Copyright Free Torrent to Test With" and "Checking That the VPN Is Working" in this guide:

 

https://airvpn.org/topic/9491-guide-to-setting-up-vpn-just-for-torrenting-on-windows/?do=findComment&comment=10317

[Staff 10014]

Hello!

 

We're glad to inform you that the port checker has been fixed.

 

Kind regards

[BizitRock 0]

Everything is working as normal today.  Thank you.  NaDre thank you for thos sites.  I will use them.