Blue Iris & Windows Defender Firewall

upstech76

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Not sure what happened but suddenly I couldn't access the BI Web server from anything but the host computer. I added an exception for Port 81 in Windows Defender and it now works. Is this safe or should I accomplish this some other way?
 

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Hard to say why Windows' firewall suddenly changed behavior like that. Allowing inbound traffic on the BI web server port is the only way anything else can connect. I can't speak for the rest of your network setup, but you are doing this much right.
 

tangent

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Windows may have decided that your network type changed (public/home/work)
 

upstech76

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Thanks for the advise, I opened up 81 and all seems to be good now.
 
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