Connection refused problem

mkuiter · Post by **mkuiter** » January 30th, 2003, 3:55 pm

I have a big "the connection was refused when attempting to connect to www....." problem. This occurs everytime with all sites. I tried as many phoenix builds as I can get my hands on with the same effect. I have the same problem with Opera 7. IE and Netscape (7.01) work fine though, no problems there. I tried Phoenix 0.5 a couple of weeks ago and I never had that problem then. In the meantime I switched NIC's but switching back didn't solve my current problem either. I'm using WinXP Pro and I don't use proxies. I'm directly connected to the internet via cable.

Help, please? anyone?

Dreambot · Post by **Dreambot** » January 30th, 2003, 5:03 pm

Sounds like a firewall problem, the one thing you haven't mentioned yet. Do you use one and which one?

Post by **alanjstr** » January 30th, 2003, 5:47 pm

Is the built in firewall enabled?

mkuiter · Post by **mkuiter** » January 31st, 2003, 5:36 am

Yes, I'm feeling a bit stupid now; it was indeed the firewall... I use Norton Personal Firewall and I totally forgot that I had to configure it manually for Phoenix to let it through. Thanks guys for reminding me.

Micha the not so Old · January 31st, 2003, 7:11 pm

but it wasn't the firewall, I use Outpost. I thought it was the nightly. I found if I went back to a nightly that did work, and used that until I tried a later nightly which also worked, and some didn't, I could overcome this problem.

mkuiter · Post by **mkuiter** » February 1st, 2003, 5:29 am

Indeed, the nightly I use did work after manual adjustment of the firewall, but the regular 0.5 and also the 0.5 Black Edition still don't work after manual adjustment of the firewall.

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