John (or anyone else who knows): I downloaded Yahoo Messenger the other day. It would not work at all at first. I tried the different settings in the software for firewalls but none of them worked. So I went to their help site and found this: If the Yahoo! Messenger works for you sometimes but not all the time, or if you find yourself getting randomly disconnected from the Messenger, it may be that you are connecting to the Internet through a firewall. Some firewalls cause the Messenger to randomly disconnect. If you are using the Messenger from a networked computer, this is most likely what is happening. To solve this problem, ask your System Administrator to open port 5050 to our pager servers, cs1.yahoo.com, cs2.yahoo.com, and cs3.yahoo.com. I then added this to the STN manual startup commands: ipautofw -A -r tcp 5050 5050 -h 192.168.0.02 (where 192.168.0.02 is the client machine I want access to and from). This allowed me Yahoo Messenger to work, at least somewhat (it seems that some messages don't get in or out, like the troubles with ICQ), but it is acceptable to me for the moment. My question is: is the line I added safe, or do I need additional lines to shore up access to just Yahoo Messenger? I don't have any idea how to us ipautofw to limit access to just the yahoo servers specified in the help paragraph above. Thanks for your help. Carl ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com _______________________________________________ ShareTheNet maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.webserv.com/mailman/listinfo/sharethenet
