Blocking off wii update in firewall?

Would it be possible to block some IP adress to prevent the wii for updating forever. Because this would be a fail proof solution, for blocking the wii update out.

You couldn't do it without blocking the Wii accessing the internet at all.

the only thing I want to do online is updating homebrew, isn't there a way to just enable that and block off the rest?

Not clicking "update" should suffice, no?

Yeah if I would be the only one operating the wii. Maybe enabling the menu code.



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 09/29/2009 04:33PM by Haas.

You could block the port that Nintendo uses from accessing the wii, but you would need either Wireshark or Air Snort or something to sniff the packets to find the port that needs to be blocked.

I'm sure your router would have some parental block controls. You should be able to enter the Wii update servers IP's and block it that way. Of course you'll have to find out what the IP's are.

ninjafish1990's idea is better if the update port is not a common one. Your router should support port blocking too.

I use a Linksys WRT54G router with DD-WRT, which has an option to specify arguments to the router's DNS server. Adding

address=/wii.com/0.0.0.0

will prevent the Wii from accessing wii.com, which, I assume, is where it gets its updates. (I haven't tried testing it, I don't want to accidentally upgrade my Wii.)

I highly doubt their update server is hosted as a subdomain off of wii.com...

It is actually, nus.shop.wii.com.

Awesome I too have a that exact same router, so gonna block it, you can even add the mac address to the block list so only your wii gets blocked :)

yeah. I did this the other day. But when I use the new StartPatch, I won't need this... right?....

I have a Siemens SE567 for Telus DSL, and I just put in a Deny rule for 'any' Source Interface/Address with Destination Interface 'any', Address 209.67.106.0, and Mask 255.255.255.0. On review, I guess the better rule would be to change Source to the Wii's IP - but I was just glad to finally get it working. I just had to remember to disable it to use NUS Downloader.

Would have been nice to block by the specific nus.shop.wii.com domain name, but my router doesn't support it.

I got the addresses from Here.