Re: Kerio 2.1.5 is out

From: Joe Canuck (Joe_Canuck_at_Canada.ca)
Date: 05/17/03 

Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 19:55:01 -0400

Duane Arnold wrote:

> Kerio is a fine product, but I didn't like the application control. And I
> did tell Kerio to set a rule and not ask me again about an application's
> connection to an IP, which it didn't ask me again on that. But then it ask
> me on the same application for another IP and I just found it painful. I

Then I suspect you didn't set the "Remote Endpoint" to "Any Address" if
this one application was going to connect to many IPs.

Bear in mind that "Remote Endpoint" can be setup for one of Any Address,
Single Address, Network/Mask, Network/Range, or Custom Address Group.

As well you are not limited to configuring only 1 rule for each
application. By example you could configure 2 rules for each
application... one rule for incoming connections and one rule for
outgoing connections.

> didn't look hard, but if there is a rule that can be set to don't ask me
> about this app ever again, then cool. But if it doesn't have that and is
> asking on every new connection, it's a pain in the ass, IMO. ;-)

The only thing that is really a PITA about Kerio is initially setting up
the ruleset for a new application although you can always take the easy
route and let Kerio do all the configuring... which sounds like what you
did during your trial.

Letting Kerio set the rules is fine but you must also realize that those
rules can be fine tuned. Had you adjusted the rules for that particular
application you would not have found it quite the pain in the ass as
you've described.

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