Weird Port Problems - Opening and Closing

From: Sean Smith (Smith_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 10/21/04


Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 12:29:10 -0700

Ladies and Gentlemen:

I've got an odd problem. Our library needs certain ports open on our
firewall - we're using ISA 2K.

When I create a protocol rule to open those specific ports, it doesn't work.
 When I open the firewall completely, it works. When I open all ports except
the ones in question, it works.

The protocol is Z39.50 - apparently it's used quite a bit in library
applications.

I've looked at our protocol rules - everything seems in order. And other
libraries have their firewall configured in this fashion.

Help!

Sean Smith



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