comp.security.firewalls archive
Re: Zone Alarm and DNS?
From: T. Sean Weintz <strap@hanh-ct.org>
Date: Tue Jun 28 2005 - 23:19:44 CEST
Date: Tue Jun 28 2005 - 23:19:44 CEST
skull_leader7@yahoo.com wrote:
> Just recently installed Zone Alarm. After doing so, I noticed that
> sometimes IE and Firefox DNS lookups are failing (and probably other
> programs too, haven't checked yet). Checking the Zone Alarm logs, I
> see blocked access attempts that include the DNS server's IP address
> and reference srvhost.exe What's going on here? I hit "allow" for
> both Firefox and IE when I was first prompted to.
>
NIce that you hit allow for firefox and IE, but the OS name resolution,
which both firefox and ie depend on for DNS, is part of neither. THAT is
the svchost.exe refernces you see. Allow svchost.exe access to udp port 53.
Received on Thu Sep 29 19:57:10 2005