Wednesday, March 11, 2015

Ports required for Apple Push Notification Service

We encountered a problem where Macs managed by Casper were unable to communicate with the JSS for Mobile Device Management (MDM).  The solution was to allow the following ports access to Apple's 17.0.0.0/8 range (complete owned by Apple):
  • TCP port 5223 (used by devices to communicate to the APNs servers) 
  • TCP port 2195 (used to send notifications to the APNs)
  • TCP port 2196 (used by the APNs feedback service)
  • TCP Port 443 (used as a fallback on Wi-fi only, when devices are unable to communicate to APNs on port 5223)
Here is a link to Apple's support page on the topic.

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