I am currently using the Zone Alarm Firewall version 4.5.538 on my PC at home and I seem to have a problem with websites such as Yahoo and ebay in that it doesnt seem to let me access any of the pages after the home page. Can anybody suggest what settings I need to look at?

Thanks

What is you home page and do you have ZA Pro ?


Yahoo Mail + Zone Alarm Pro

http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,10188223~mode=flat

But also do not foget that recently there has been this problem out there for everyone. :(


Akamai DDoS Attack Whacks Web Traffic, Sites

http://forum.gladiator-antivirus.com/index...showtopic=15739



Keynote was able to determine that the problems were limited to several large sites, including MSN.com, Microsoft.com and Yahoo.com, that outsource DNS services to Akamai. Those sites were all but inaccessible until the service was restored around 10:45 a.m., Taylor said.

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Now all that stuff is suppose to be in the past..but it could be happening again.


Guess i trying to tell you taht if this is just a recent problem for you it might go away all by itself if they are being ddosed again...


But also if you have WinXP for an OS..there could be a reason your problem could even last longer that usual because of this action by WinXP..

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How to turn off unsuccessful ("negative") DNS caching.

(Applies only to Windows XP and Windows 2000.)




From: http://cable-dsl.home.att.net/#dns_cache

"By default the DNS Client also caches negative responses (including the lack of any response from the DNS server). Unfortunately, that can prevent you from recovering from transient DNS errors for an extended period of time. If, for example, the DNS servers at your ISP are temporarily overloaded, or slow to respond due to network congestion, the DNS Client will cache the negative response. Until that cache entry expires, which can take several minutes, it won't even try to lookup that name again -- you'll just get an immediate error. That prevents you from quickly recovering from DNS errors by simply retrying, the recommended thing to do. This can lead to frustrating delays and seeming loss of connectivity problems."

See the above link to disable negative caching.

http://www.techtv.com/screensavers/answers...3384507,00.html

In addition when you can't get to a webpage because Windows XP or Windows 2000 has cached an unsuccessful DNS lookup, you can:

Try later (after the cache entry has expired)
Reboot your computer (which clears the DNS cache)
Clear (flush) the DNS cache manually (run "ipconfig /flushdns")
Turn off the "DNS Client" service entirely (hurts performance by requiring unnecessary lookups)

John,

also i see you are still fighting some coolweb search problems and other nasties on your PC...
http://forum.gladiator-antivirus.com/index...topic=15796&hl=

so there could even be other reasons for your problems that has nothing to do with firewall settings at this time. :(

Hunter,

This problem was occurring before the issues with CWS started. If I stop the firewall I have no problems accessing these sites. For example if I got to Yahoo and then try and access the finance page nothing happens when the firewall is in place. If I stop the firewall then no problems. I am using the free Zone Alarm Firewall.

John

Good..then we ruled out all the other stuff and at this site you can setup that free version..it has screen shots to follow and you might have to set that slider in some cases for security to medium rather that high to allow pages to be displayed and there are also some goodies for ebay you can do..


http://www.markusjansson.net/eza.html

Gracie also has some good info for people who have problems with game sites and other tips..but some of the info is dated


http://www.angelfire.com/grrl/gracie/gracieza1.htm

I also have the problem with Zone Alarm and certain portions of Yahoo and EBay that you mentioned. I think what's happening is they're trying to do a reverse or double reverse DNS lookup on the sending PC, but our Firewalls block their attempts (of course).

Pretty annoying because, if that's what the problem is, there's no real reason for them to be reverse looking up anyway. Yahoo might claim "security" is the reason, but we're all transparent to the NSA anyway, so Yahoo doesn't need to self-appoint themselves as watchdogs when the government is doing a fine job of snoopingl. Anyway, let me know how you got around this problem, if you have a moment. Thx.

It could be that your True vector Files are Corrupt.

Try following these steps. And start again. Be warned this will wipe Zone Alarms Settings

1. Disconect from the Ineternet.
2. Go to prefferences in Zone Alarm Overveiw Pane and un-check load at start up.
3. Reboot Computer.
4. Navigate to C:/Windows/Internet Logs & delete all files
5. Restart Zone Alarm from the Star Menu.
6. Re-Check load at Start-Up
7. Start resetting all you permissions again.

Opening Explorer resulted in "Dns error" for default page. Refresh and/or disabling Zonelabs v.5.5.062.11 worked around the problem but the True Vector file repair routine worked 100%. Thanks.

First off try updating to the latest version 5.5. And do a clean Install. Start from fresh with settings.