Depending which SonicWALL model you are running, filtering may be enabled. Check and make sure you don't have any cookie filtering or web filtering set anywhere in the config.
--Blaine Fleming At 11:56 AM 10/9/2002, you wrote: >Hi all, >I've been working with a client for a bit on a perplexing problem. They have >a small Sonicwall firewall which seems to work fine, except for one thing - >it sometimes blocks hotmail and yahoo mail access. > >Here are the symptoms: you can login to the hotmail website most of the >time, but not all the time. These times can be from one login to the next, >just minutes apart. Sometimes it will go to an error page in the web browser >saying the site is unavaliable. Also, once logged in, you can usually send >and receive mail, but not all the time. Sometimes you will not be able to >send mail - after clicking on send, nothing happens. Similar symptoms from >yahoo mail. > >Here's what I've already tried: >Thinking that what you pay for it what you get (nothing), I started with >blaming hotmail, but since the hotmail access was fine at almost same time >and with the same account and the same computer over a dial-up connection as >it wasn't working from behind the firewall. Also, I removed the firewall at >one point for a different reason and hotmail worked flawlessly during this >period of time. I tried getting in touch with hotmail tech support, hah, no >luck there, but I did stumble across the fact that you can use Outlook >Express or Outlook 2002/XP to access your hotmail account. Add a new account >and select HTTP and put in your hotmail account number and it goes. With >this in place behind the firewall there is never a problem with hotmail >access. I also called Sonicwall tech support and the techie there said that >there are no known issues with hotmail, just to try setting the security to >medium in IE. It already was. > >Has anyone run across this or know what may be going on? I'm not entirely >convinced that it's the firewall blocking it, but I can come up with no >other logical conclusion. > >Thanks in advance, >Mitch Planck, CNE, CCNA > >____________ The ISP-SECURITY Discussion List ____________ >To Join: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >To Remove: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Archives: http://isp-lists.isp-planet.com/isp-security/archives/ >To Remove: mailto:%%email.unsub%% ____________ The ISP-SECURITY Discussion List ____________ To Join: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To Remove: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives: http://isp-lists.isp-planet.com/isp-security/archives/ To Remove: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
