Re: Port 119 Blocked?

From: NeoSadist (neos@dist)
Date: 11/09/02 

From: "NeoSadist" <neos@dist>
Date: Sat, 9 Nov 2002 10:22:57 -0700

"DF" <df@no_spam_me.co> wrote in message
news:3DCCEAED.4020905@no_spam_me.co...
> Good Day,
>
> I have run this one by the ISP and NetGear with no solution from either
> one. Perhaps someone here can shed a bit of light.
>
> I have successfully been able to access newsgroups from my system while
> using Kerio Personal Firewall and various news readers over the past six
> months. The logs indicate use of ports 119 and depending on which
> reader is used a couple other TCP assignments.
>
> Now the problem. Once I put a NetGear FVS318 inline I can no longer
> access newsgroups no matter how I configure the unit, so for now I have
> one system on the FVS318 and another using Kerio.
>
> Does anyone have an idea what might be not going on or have a few
> questions that my kick this problem loose?
>
> TIA
>
> OS = M$ WinXP
> FVS318 Firmware Version 1.1 Aug 29, 2002
>

First off, if you're using two software firewalls at the same time, they
could be corrupting each other, which screws things up.
However, if it's a software and a hardware firewall, you need to pick which
one of those needs to go. I'd say keep the hardware firewall. Just go into
its configuration and tell it you only want NAT and/or stateful packet
inspection. Put all other settings back to default. If that don't work,
put ALL settings back to defaults and see if that helps.
If it don't, then get rid of the hardware firewall and reinstall the
software firewall.
Honestly, you don't need to firewalls at home. (Unless you live with
Margaret Steward...)

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