I don't administer the SonicWall personally, but it has a "pro-active" web filter, using rules that nobody here completely comprehends, to block categories of Web Content.
The category that this URL was hitting was "Free Software Downloads". We're a fairly small organization so it's easy for me to have the firewall administrator "Unblock" a site when this happens. But this is the first time I've had something start being blocked, after using it for a long time. Our Administrator mentioned that some work that he'd been doing may have caused this incident. On Wednesday 28 June 2006 13:35, L. Mark Stone wrote: > On Wed, 2006-06-28 at 09:19 -0500, Larry Starr wrote: > > I have found the problem: "Never underestimate the power of your own > > systems to make you feel dumb!". > > > > It seems that our SonicWall firewall, sometime recently, had decided that > > this was a forbidden site, so the "403" error was due to my own firewall > > blocking access. > > > > Have since "unblocked" the site and everything is, once again, working > > fine. > > > > Thought I'd pass this along, in case someone else should run into a > > problem like this. > > > > On Monday 26 June 2006 09:43, Larry Starr wrote: > > > About a week ago I started seeing: > > > >> The following rules had errors: > > > >> William Stearn's RANDOM WORD Ruleset was not retrieved because of: > > > >> 403 from > > > >> http://www.sa-blacklist.stearns.org/sa-blacklist/random.current.cf. > > > > > > I ignored it for awhile, because I've seen transient problems with some > > > of the RDJ rules in the past, but not for this long. > > > > > > Has this ruleset gone away? > > > > > > Thank you, > > Larry, > > What setting in your SonicWall did you find blocked this site? We use a > PRO2040 in front of our mail servers and have licensed the Gateway > security bundle, on which we rely. > > Thanks, > Mark -- Larry G. Starr - [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] Software Engineer: Full Compass Systems LTD. Phone: 608-831-7330 x 1347 FAX: 608-831-6330 =================================================================== There are only three sports: bullfighting, mountaineering and motor racing, all the rest are merely games! - Ernest Hemmingway
