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Windows firewall has blocked the soundcloud CDN

Anonymous
2025-03-11T21:32:09+00:00

Is there any way to unblock it? I've reset my firewall 2 days ago and now its blocked again. I do not want to reset my firewall each time.

Here is a snippet of text from pfirewall.log

2025-03-11 23:05:47 DROP TCP 192.168.7.19 3.169.71.4 50819 443 0 - 0 0 0 - - - SEND 19268

2025-03-11 23:05:47 DROP TCP 192.168.7.19 3.169.71.98 50820 443 0 - 0 0 0 - - - SEND 19268

2025-03-11 23:05:47 DROP TCP 192.168.7.19 3.169.71.72 50821 443 0 - 0 0 0 - - - SEND 19268

2025-03-11 23:05:47 DROP TCP 192.168.7.19 3.169.71.46 50822 443 0 - 0 0 0 - - - SEND 19268

3.169.71.4, 3.169.71.98, 3.169.71.72 and 3.169.71.46 are being blocked. These are the IPs for cf-hls-media.sndcdn.com

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  1. Anonymous
    2025-03-12T01:17:45+00:00

    Hi qeo, hope you're doing well. I'm Ian, and I'm happy to help you today.

    If you don’t want to keep resetting your entire firewall configuration, you can create a specific allow rule for the SoundCloud CDN addresses.

    1. Press Win + R, type wf.msc, and press Enter. To open Windows Defender Firewall with Advanced Security
    2. Click Outbound Rules (on the left).
    3. In the right pane, click New Rule then select Custom, and click Next.
    4. In Program, choose All Programs, click Next
    5. In Protocol and Ports, choose Any, click Next
    6. In Scope, in the Remote IP addresses section, select These IP addresses and then Add each of the SoundCloud CDN IPs you listed (e.g., 3.169.71.4, 3.169.71.98, 3.169.71.72, 3.169.71.46) the click Next.
    7. In Action, choose Allow the connection. Click Next.
    8. In Profile, check the profiles you use (typically Domain, Private, and/or Public) the click Next.
    9. Give it a descriptive name, like “Allow SoundCloud CDN,” then click Finish.

    I hope this helps, but please let me know if you need anything else.

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