AoE: Castle Siege - Connection Error
[Warning! This blog post is nothing to do with Hyper-V or virtualization. It is Friday night and I am playing computer games!]
It has been a long busy week of working on Hyper-V – and now it is time for me to unwind. After playing a couple of games I decided to try out the recently released “Age of Empires: Castle Siege” only to be presented with this:
What? Well – that would be because I run an enterprise grade firewall in my house (I mean, who doesn’t?). A quick journey through the firewall logs showed that it was trying to reach castlesrelease.cloudapp.net:8443-8444 – and my firewall was dutifully blocking this.
My immediate fix was to just allow access on these ports – but that did not actually work. The reason was that my firewall was actually able to detect that this was actually SSL traffic running over an odd port – and was quite upset about that.
A moment later – I had my SSL definition updated to allow ports 8443 and 8444 (outbound only) and everything is good. Now, off to build an empire…
Cheers,
Ben