Re: Got internet connection sharing working with Free Zone Alarm

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From: Steven L Umbach (n9rou_at_n0-spam-for-me-comcast.net)
Date: 08/19/04


Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 03:56:35 GMT

Zone alarm and most personal firewalls have a trusted zone. Try adding your whole
subnet to the trusted zone. --- Steve

"Yitzak" <terryshamir@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
news:b73ddf3c.0408180927.5ae62385@posting.google.com...
> Symptoms:
> Configured host PC to share internet connection. The client pc could
> not do a domain name lookup.
>
> I.e on the client
> 1. ping www.bbc.co.uk would not resolve
> 2. ping 212.58.224.12 (www.bbc.co.uk's IP address would work)
> 3. Switch off Zonelarm on the host computer and step 1 would work.
>
> Now I was using Zone Alarm Free version 5.
>
> 1. Putting the security level onto medium for the internet made it
> work Sometimes!!
> 2. Using Advanced optins on firewall settings and allowing outgoing
> DHCP requests worked again sometimes...
>
> I really got fed up and went back to Zone Alarm 4.5 and it works all
> the time now with medium security. Apparently medium shows your PCs
> ports wheras High security hides them - both settings block teh ports
> thou..



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