# STORJ windows service stays down

**URL:** <https://forum.storj.io/t/storj-windows-service-stays-down/22639>\
**Category:** troubleshooting\
**Tags:** windows-gui, firewall, offline\
**Created:** [May 11, 2023, 11:18am UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/storj-windows-service-stays-down/22639 "2023-05-11T11:18:14Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Showing post:** 7

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Stob](https://storj.bcdn.literatehosting.com/user_avatar/forum.storj.io/stob/32/1137_2.png) [@Stob](https://forum.storj.io/u/Stob)\
**Post date:** [May 11, 2023, 3:28pm UTC](https://forum.storj.io/t/storj-windows-service-stays-down/22639/7 "2023-05-11T15:28:58Z")

</div>

> [@Exact settings on a strict firewall](https://forum.storj.io/t/exact-settings-on-a-strict-firewall/20552/8):
>
> The node doesn’t make a lot of outbound connections (currently), but this could still be tricky. You probably need to whitelist: all of the satellite IPs, port 7777 [version.storj.io:443](http://version.storj.io:443)[collectora.storj.io:9000](http://collectora.storj.io:9000) (only if you want to allow metrics collection) all IPs for [github.com](http://github.com), port 443 DNS requests, however the host is configured Now, the github one that will be a pain, because that list is probably fairly long and frequently changing. It’s necessary because that’s where the updater gets…

---

_[View the full topic](https://forum.storj.io/t/storj-windows-service-stays-down/22639)._