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Heed · 17-04-2008, 23:38

Hey all.

I've noticed something weird tonight. I'm having real problems connecting to most websites when I have phorm.com and associated IP's blocked via my firewall (Comodo). If I unblock them I get normal operation.

It looks like a DNS issue and that's what I thought it was (hangs on "looking up hostname"), but unblocking the phorm addresses solves it.

Anyone else seeing this?

I should add that if I unblock the addresses and visit a site which was unreachable with the addresses blocked, then after visiting I can visit again no problem with the addresses blocked.

I have the following blocked:

88.208.248.102 - 88.208.250.85
phorm.com

Hmm, I can't even get to my modem configuration page (192.168.100.1) with those blocks.

Not just http, but ftp as well.

17-04-2008, 23:38	#3923
Heed Inactive Join Date: Jun 2003 Posts: 47	Re: Virgin Media Phorm Webwise Adverts [Updated: See Post No. 1, 77, 102 & 797] Hey all. I've noticed something weird tonight. I'm having real problems connecting to most websites when I have phorm.com and associated IP's blocked via my firewall (Comodo). If I unblock them I get normal operation. It looks like a DNS issue and that's what I thought it was (hangs on "looking up hostname"), but unblocking the phorm addresses solves it. Anyone else seeing this? I should add that if I unblock the addresses and visit a site which was unreachable with the addresses blocked, then after visiting I can visit again no problem with the addresses blocked. I have the following blocked: 88.208.248.102 - 88.208.250.85 phorm.com Hmm, I can't even get to my modem configuration page (192.168.100.1) with those blocks. Not just http, but ftp as well.