Re: 'Connection refused' errors up the yin-yang
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Re: 'Connection refused' errors up the yin-yang

From: Jeff B <jbeardNo-Spam1185@adelphia.net>
Date: Mon Dec 26 2005 - 18:59:05 CET

caryn@holonet.net wrote:
> So what's
> happening is that with Firefox, I'm getting "The connection was refused
> when attempting to contact <yadda.yadda.yadda>", where
> "yadda.yadda.yadda" is a site for say signing in for checking e-mail on
> Yahoo, or account info on amazon.com, or for posting messages on a
> Google group

> IE won't let me access anything whatsoever- I always
> invariably just get the "Cannot find server/The page cannot be
> displayed" error. And lastly attempts to use pscp result in "ssh_init:
> Network errror: Connection refused".
>
> before I went and installed a Windows
> update recently...

> I was running ZoneAlarm, AND Norton AntiVirus...

try adding a rule to ZA
Allow all outbound TCP ports 80,443

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Jeff B (remove the No-Spam to reply)
Received on Tue Jan 3 03:39:46 2006