Hi,

having trouble with yahoo audio/video voice calls. i am behind squid firewall on WAN. i have asked my IT Admin to open the audio/video ports. he have open the ports but still the audio/video buttons are disabled on chat window. any guidance/help please.

Regards,

Adnan

squid is not a firewall. it is a proxy, which is a very different thing. http://www.helpbytes.co.uk/yconnect.php this seems to list the required ports, are you trying to use a proxy for this then or a firewall without proxy? You really should be asking your IT admin to make it work though, if it's his server he's in the best place by far to know what's required.

Moved to Server, as it's not a security issue.

@ Chris

i don't know what he have done with the settings, he shows me that he have allowed, but i think he himself dont' understands what to do.........

any tutorials? any examples that i can show him.......????

The page linked by acid_kewpie has a list of the ports used for Yahoo! connections. You can test whether your SNAT firewall is allowing said connections by using a tool such as Firewalk. You can also test Squid itself by appending port numbers to URLs and observing whether an Access Denied error message is generated (for example, to test port 5050 you could try to access http://www.linuxquestions.org:5050). That said, if I was in your position I would first try to verify whether all the required Yahoo! features will work with a proxy server in the first place, as it wouldn't be surprising if they require SNAT to work properly. FWIW, the page linked by acid_kewpie includes warnings about this sort of thing.

In any case, here's an example Squid ACL to allow the ports on that page:

@ Chris & win32sux

thanks for your kind replies, i have asked my IT pplz to change the setting as you told me. but all in vain still blocked, can't do audio/video calls. have to sign in thru proxy other wise yahoo won't let me sign in.

now the question is, is there another way that i can do audio/video calls on yahoo behind firewall??????

This situation seems really messed up to me... you have an apparently amenable network admin yet you're asking us for help? I don't get it.

first check the logs in the proxy server by your it guy by "tail -f /var/log/squid/access.log | grep "your-ip-address"
see whether you getting any denied messages or wat.. or still you thing that problem with proxy then include this rule in ur proxy
line1==> acl someaclname arp you-mac-address
line2==> http_access allow someaclname

replace with ur mac address of your system in line1 and those lines should be defined in top of the squid.conf file and reload the squid once..
if your squid block and file formats like flash or swf or any flv, or any ip based access , in the rule u can get bypass.
and also check your messenger settings..
hope that will helps...