Firewall DNS zone doesn't work

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  1. IcePanther

    IcePanther Registered Member

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    Firewall zones don't work in new rules

    Hi,

    I just installed v 4.2.35 and started to create rules for applications in the personal firewall. For instance, I created a rule to allow all Outgoing UDP traffic with external port 53 and external IP in the "DNS zone".

    However, the setting seems not to be effective : The firewall, in Interactive mode, still asks me to allow or deny the connection. So the DNS Zone seems broken. Is there anyone with the same problem out here ?

    I checked the DNS zone contains my DNS IPs, and that's the case, and the IP in the prompt is one of the DNS IPs.
    I also checked the rules were applied because HTTP/Loopback/etc rules work.
    I'd like not to come back to 4.0, which can't differentiate two wireless networks with the same subnet (no SSID change detection).

    Thanks in advance for your answers!

    Edit : Clean re-installing (after uninstalling and deleting all filesystem/registry/driver remains) didn't help.

    Edit2 : "Trusted zone" did not work either, so I guess this is a global rule/zone problem.
     
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  2. pegr

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    Re: Firewall zones don't work in new rules

    Yes, I experienced the same problem. I found that if I add the address of the DNS server directly within the rule, the connection is allowed without any prompts, but referencing a DNS server address indirectly within the rule via the predefined "DNS Servers" zone doesn't work.

    The problem doesn't affect all zones though because I manually created a new zone called "Time Servers" to manage Internet Time updates via port 123 then created the appropriate rule for svchost.exe, referencing the "Time Servers" zone within the rule, and that works.
     
  3. Marcos

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    Re: Firewall zones don't work in new rules

    This issue will be addressed in a newer build of v. 4.2 that will be available shortly.
     
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    Re: Firewall zones don't work in new rules

    Thanks for letting us know. :)
     
  5. IcePanther

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    Thank you Marcos for informing us.

    I guess I'll wait for the next build then.
     
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    Re: Firewall zones don't work in new rules

    Thanks! You've made my day :) - I had the very same problem and couldn't get it working so I reverted to 4.0.474.

    Thanks to you I now know it's not my fault :)
     
  7. no_idea

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    I'm pleased to report that ESS 4.2.40.0 solved my problem with the DNS servers zone not working and that I was able to successfully migrate from 4.0.474 to 4.2.40.
     
  8. IcePanther

    IcePanther Registered Member

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    Thanks for reporting that, no_idea.

    I'll try re-installing it right away.
    (I didn't really have the time to brows forums until now, and I was going to ask if it that new build solved the problem).

    Edit : Seems to be fixed indeed. :thumb:
     
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