[Gaim-devel] Win version and firewall

[Phil H. <ph...@el...>]

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Hi,

I have been having a similar problem on my work computer.  The office
is on the end of a Satellite link, then behind a cisco firewall and
then Norton Personal Firewall 2002 on the desktop, for about a month
now the jabber server hasn't been connecting (jabber.org or
jabber.org.uk), I just get to the initialise streams bit and nothing
else happens.  The Norton firewall did an update about the time the
jabber stopped connecting and now I wish I could disable Norton
(company policy prohibits it).

I have tried this with a jabber client (Exodus_0.9.0) and get the same
result.  However if I connect from home which just uses the ASDL
router firewall I can connect no problem.

I need to do more testing of the personal firewalls settings to figure
out why it is stopping Jabber, I would suspect its something to do
with the proxy service it installs.

My advice to you would be to first try another jabber client to
confirm its the firewall.  Then try different settings on the firewall
to see what the problem is.  Then post it back here for others (namely
me) to share.  If I get time later this week I'll do some testing.

Apologies to all those using inherently secure OS's I know you won't
know what I have just been wittering on about ;-)

Regards
Phil Hannent (aka Monkey77)

gai...@li... wrote:

|Message: 4
|Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 12:01:42 -0400
|From: Nick Pietraniec <ml...@re...>
|To: gai...@li...
|Subject: [Gaim-devel] Win version and firewall
|
|Hello all.  I recently upgraded to Symantec client firewall 7.1 from 5.0
|and gaim's jabber plugin no longer works.  I can set up the most liberal
|firewall rules in the world (for testing purposes rendering the firewall
|useless), but don't seem to have any luck connecting.  I've contacted
|Symantec support about this...  They've confirmed it but basically told
|me "we don't care."  Ethereal shows no gaim traffic when I try to
|connect to a jabber server.  If I disable the firewall it works fine.  
|The truly weird thing is that other jabber programs work fine and so
|does gaim's aim component.  Has anyone else experienced or heard of this
|problem with client firewalls or this version in particular?
|
|-Nick
|
|
|

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