Windows 7 64 bit Firewall with IP address resolution?

ace55 · Aug 20, 2010

Anyone know of a firewall that automatically resolves IPs it displays to names? For example, if I went to google in Firefox it would tell me that I was trying to connect to an IP belonging to google.com (and probably google-analytics) as well?

Has to work in Win 7 x64.

Creer · Aug 22, 2010

Hi,

Look 'n' Stop can do this for you once you create rule for HTTP connections.

I.e. I enter via my browser on bing.com website, Look 'n' Stop gives me this entries in log:

As you can see there are entries belongs to MS and deploy.akamaitechnologies.com

Akamai provides many IT services like application hosting, content delivery,
and streaming media services, but they are probably best known for their
massive distributed computer infrastructure. In lay terms, they have upwards
of 15,000+ servers positioned around the globe providing content (software
downloads, etc) and media (like QuickTime, RealAudio, or Windows Media
files) for their customers (the likes of Apple, GM, MTV, Department of
Defense, IBM, Microsoft, Monster.com, Yahoo!, Adobe...).

So for instance, say your company developed a web site/application for use
by your customers. On this website, you wanted to make available a few
hundred moderate length video clips. If you intend your website to have even
moderate traffic, you will quickly realize the potentially prohibitive
time/energy/costs involved with building an infrastructure capable of
delivering this content - to make those files available reliably you'll need
lots of bandwidth, reliable servers with a backup strategy, redundant power
and A/C, lots of RAID-ed disk space, finely tuned security precautions, lots
of manpower to watch over everything, and on and on and on.

This is where Akamai comes in. They have the infrastructure already in place
to deliver these services. Companies can save money by having Akamai deliver
their content for them. Akamai has become so ubiquitous that it's hard to go
a day without (perhaps unknowingly) pulling at least some content of one of
their servers, as you have discovered!
Click to expand...

But since you will enable HTTP logging in LnS there will be an inconvenience long logs in Log tab. That's why it isn't set up by default. Also please note that F:TCP on my screen means in LnS - flood protection in Log tabs (you have to enable it in Advanced Options).

act8192 · Aug 22, 2010

Zone Alarm, very likely, since it resolved addresses in 32bit XP.

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