Re: orace10G XE WindowsXp and Zonealarm Pro

On Jan 8, 12:32 pm, Robert A. Reissaus <oracle..._at_risdi.com> wrote:
> Hi guys.
> I have installed a oracle10 Express Edition on my Windowsxp. On the
> system I am running ZoneAlarm Pro with rather obvious adjusted privacy
> settings as follows:
> 3rd party cookies are blocked.
> private header information is disabled.
> popup/under ads are blocked
> animations are blocked
> script execution is blocked ( vbscript etc).
>
> As a result I can NOT logon to the database using SYSTEM ( or any
> other user for that matter).
>
> The ONLY i can log in is to remove ANY initial blockage in my
> firewall. This is of course totally unacceptable. Now I have tried to
> tweak the firewall settings in such a way that ports used by oracle
> are allowed, but that doesn't work. It *looks* like oracle circumvents
> the firewall entirely.
>
> Anybody any idea?
> Robert A. Reissaus

Have you considered connecting to the database instance using the IPC protocol, instead of TCP?

I doubt that ZoneAlarm is blocking IPC calls.

-bdbafh Received on Tue Jan 09 2007 - 12:30:54 CST