zsoltszalay 0 Posted September 29, 2014 Share Posted September 29, 2014 (edited) Hi, A got a new computer (Win 8.1) and I intalled ESS. I changed the firewall to interacive mode (as I used it on my old computer). When I disable the firewall everythinkg works fine. When I enable it, after some seconds (actually less than 2 minutes I do not know exactly) it blocks all kind of network communication and I do not understand why. It is strange for me that the blocking does not take place immediatelly (I can search for something in Google), but after some seconds the internet is "turned off". So I am sure the ESS firewall blocks the network, but do not understand why. I turned on "Log all blocked connections" and I can see log entries like this: 2014.09.29. 10:05:07 No application listening on the port 173.194.35.71:443 192.168.10.104:7569 TCP To be honest this log entry is useless. I do not know which rule blocks the network and why. I cannot use the browsers, cannot ping... Thank you! Zsolt Edited September 29, 2014 by zsoltszalay Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Marcos 4,705 Posted September 30, 2014 Administrators Share Posted September 30, 2014 Are you actually using the latest ESS 7.0.317? If not, it could be a bug with displaying an action selection window in older version of ESS v7. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zsoltszalay 0 Posted September 30, 2014 Author Share Posted September 30, 2014 My version is up to date. I uninstalled it in safe mode and reinstalled it. It seems it works now. Anyway I do not really understand why it is not possible to check why a connection is blocked. If you have some rules, it is impossible to find out what is going on. Temporarily enabled/disabled rules cannot be seen. The log is useless. The log should display the reason why it blocks the connection. This is the goal of a log... This firewall could be a very good one, but the lack of admin tools, logs,... it is a shame... Anyway, thank you for your answer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Marcos 4,705 Posted October 2, 2014 Administrators Share Posted October 2, 2014 The reason for blocking a connection would be logged provided that logging of blocked connections is enabled in the IDS setup. This is disabled by default as it should only be enabled for troubleshooting network communication issues otherwise extremely large logs could exhaust disk space sooner or later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts