Re: Oracle websites

Make sure you also allow destination port 53 UDP/TCP for DNS requests. Even if you can talk HTTP[S] on ports 80 and 443, you won't get very far if you can't lookup an IP address for a domain name.

• Dan Hanks

On Tue, 2 Dec 2003, Jonathan Lewis wrote:

>
> I've just bought a new Windows XP machine,
> Got all the latest downloads on the O/S.
> Installed a firewall.
> Got Norton Anti-virus loaded and up to date.
>
> Which bit of code is stopping me from getting
> to Metalink and the Oracle websites ? The
> pages no longer exist according to my M/S IE.
>
> Regards
>
> Jonathan Lewis
> http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk
>
> The educated person is not the person
> who can answer the questions, but the
> person who can question the answers -- T. Schick Jr
>
>
> One-day tutorials:
> http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk/tutorial.html
>
>
> Three-day seminar:
> see http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk/seminar.html
>
>
> The Co-operative Oracle Users' FAQ
> http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk/faq/ind_faq.html
>
>

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