Firewall question

[Thorny]

On Sun, 08 Mar 2009 15:46:04 +0000, R Kimber wrote:

> My firewall is blocking a particular website (www.pollingreport.com)
> despite the fact that I have set up no rules for it to do so.
> 
> I'm using Firestarter on 8.10 and I can see the IP listed under Events ->
> Blocked connections
> 
> Can anyone suggest what the problem is?
> 

Perhaps it is not a problem at all, perhaps it is a feature. If your
system didn't request a connection to that server, and the server was
trying to connect to a port on your machine, then drop the packet would be
a reasonable response for a firewall.