Re: ZoneAlarm and News server

From: David (davidwnh@adelphia.net)
Date: 01/14/03 

From: "David" <davidwnh@adelphia.net>
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 00:18:46 GMT

Do not add the NNTP server's address to your trusted zone! It is your
outbound connection packet (Syn)being blocked not a response as shown from
your alert. Find out what setting you have misconfigured. Without knowing
which version (free pro/plus) you have I can't be more specific.

"phoenix" <phoenix@fakeaddress.com> wrote in message
news:giieeuq79sf4.1sh0t3ee3dwon.dlg@40tude.net...
> On Mon, 13 Jan 2003 22:44:14 +0000, Luis Fernando Martins wrote:
>
> > I have been geting problems with my ISP news server. When I try to get
> > the header It takes some time and then shows a error indicating that the
> > program (Agent Newsreader) didn't get a reply from the server. When I
shutdown
> > Zone Alarm, it works.
> > I activated the "Zone Alarm Alerts" and when I get the headers I get
> > the message:
> > "The firewall has blocked Internet access to 194.65.xxx.xxx (NNTP) from
your
> > computer [TCP Flags: S]. That (masked) IP is my ISP newserver which
means that
> > Zone Alarm is "auto blocking" the access to it. How can I prevent this?
Is
> > there any way to override it?
> > How can I find what is making the problem. I am almost sure it is Zone
> > Alarm but ...
> > Thanks in advance for your help.
> Go to the Firewall/Zones tab and add the Host/Site into your trusted zone.
>
> Regards
>
> Bill

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