Can someone please tell me the IP's and ports of the servers that ruels_du_jour use to download the updates. I am assuming that the port would be 80. I have to open up firewall to allow the traffic and ports. When I currently do it just hangs.
RDJ downloads several rulesets from different sites. These sites are resolved by DNS lookup of a hostname, not fixed IP addresses.
Thus the dowload sources could change IPs unexpectedly, and I don't think you'll be able to configure a firewall to restrict destination IP address of the downloads without having it break once in a rare while.
That warning of occasional breakage aside, I can comment on antidrug.cf:
antidrug.cf is hosted at mywebpages.comcast.net. The IP address varies sometimes when comcast has outages or overloads, but seems to stay put most of the time. The current IP is:
$host mywebpages.comcast.net
mywebpages.comcast.net is an alias for myfilelocker.comcast.net.
myfilelocker.comcast.net has address 204.127.198.25