I updated the firmware on the WRT54G router today to the latest release of Sveasoft’s code. Dyndns updates are working again, after being broken in Alchemy 5.2.

I modified the firewall to block the XBox’s access to XBox Live (ports 88 and 3074), since I don’t want my son connecting to it by accident. I had blocked all access to the Internet from the XBox, but that also broke the weather lookup in XBMC, which is becoming handy as we move into fall.

Part of the process for filtering XBox Live involved defining new services through the web interface. I kept getting errors on the page when I tried to apply the updates. After a fair amount of searching, mainly because I didn’t make a good choice of keywords, I found the problem is a bug, or limitation, of IE. Apparently it can’t handle Java variables of 2.3K in size very well. Repeating the process in Firefox worked perfectly.